An offbeat, strangely compelling on-the-road journal by blues
singer, Carl Gustafson, who says he doesn't like music, in fact, he
prefers silence. (Calling to mind keyboard immortal and eccentric
Glenn Gould who he said he didn't like piano music.) Who is Carl
Gustafson, you may ask? An iconoclast, a rebel, a provocateur. A
flag bearer for human dignity? An Indiana Jones style adventurer,
seeker of truth, justice and a better American Way? Yes, yes,
certainly. An outsider artist, a Henry Darger working in obscurity
on his grand vision for his oversize fabric of life, and wishing to
share it? Oh, yes. And mix this in, too: one part Edward Abbey for
his meticulous power of observation ("I wish that mankind, rich or
poor, could at least plant a single flower or sign their signature
upon their life in some distinct way. If they do, I will observe
it."), one part Thoreau logging nature notes, one part Kerouac on
the road, one part Dylan Thomas raging into the good night, and
finally 19th century French composer Hector Berlioz writing his
humorous and insightful Evenings in the Orchestra - only this time
the orchestra is a blues band. Another part anthropologist Margaret
Mead living among the natives, another part Zen Master with his
Buddhist acceptance, reluctant or otherwise, of all things around
him on any given day, he carefully observes and notates all the
minutia around him on any given day, all the while keeping up a
conversation with himself, sometimes bemused, sometimes angry,
sometimes transcendent. The writing here is paradoxical, maddening,
frustrating by turns....and then all at once riveting. You'll see
yourself in these pages - that's the riveting - and then, I think
you might just see the prospect of your better self, too. That's
the magical. (Sample chapters, blurbs, table of contents, more at
http: //sarkett.com/showtime.)
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