Out of press in its original form for years, controversial beat poet Allen Ginsberg‘s East Village love-in First Blues – a vast double-album of collaborations with Bob Dylan, Arthur Russell, Anne Waldman, David Mansfield, Perry Robinson, David Amram and many other friends and contemporaries is reissued via Death Is Not The End.
It’s hard to deny Ginsberg’s impact; his poetry alone was enough to shift the course of US counter culture, and you can visualise his contributions to downtown punk and folk. But his music career isn’t quite as intimately understood, which makes ‘First Blues’ a pretty vital artefact for anyone looking to investigate further. Ginsberg wrote and recorded the material between 1971 and 1983, taking the opportunity to leaf through his lengthy…

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