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The Bushwick Book Club presents Keith Richards' "Life"

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Phoebe Kreutz & Matt Colbourn - Where Are The Rolling Stones 03:17
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Maria Sonevytsky - Anita Pallenberg Is Not Dead 03:10
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Anita Pallenberg Is Not Dead She just wanted your attention and for him to call her hers for all the world to see her, loved, admired, and adored It’s not easy being pretty in a crowd of alpha dudes having Russian roulette lovers spill their blood in your bedroom Anita Pallenberg Is Not Dead she’s just a bit of a recluse cycling round the British towns a triumph of style over substance abuse A baby died so sudden A lover drowned in vain and the junkie mother slept never feeling any pain she just wanted her delusions to fade out overnight and be replaced by an illusion one that actually felt right CHORUS when your best friends call you evil evil glamour girl undone and they chase you to the station and Keith Richards saves your son you’ve gotta wonder was it worth it as a rock and roller’s muse Anita simply smiles and she softly sings the blues CHORUS
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Nan Turner - Dressed To The Nines 03:13
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Laura Brenneman - I Never Thought I Was Wasted But I Probably Was 03:41
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'I Never Thought I Was Wasted But I Probably Was' Somebody put me on the fastest train to anywhere but here I laugh like an elevated train that's been rattling high for years It ruins your sleep, but it keeps me going on I used to think that Johnny Depp was dealing drugs to my son I thought this for two entire years and well i guess, I was mistaken I never thought i never thought I was wasted, but I probably was. 'Non, je ne regrette rien' is what I've always said, But that poseur Mick Jagger wouldn't know his A** from his Zed... I never thought i never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Natti Vogel - In It To Live It 03:56
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Sweet Soubrette - Keith Says 03:56
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Keith Says Keith says let’s jump in the Bentley And go to Morocco Where they cover the children in honey And run them through fields of herb naked To harvest the powder Keith says he thinks about the women How maybe he opened their hearts Just a little to realize Their lust and desire unleashed Was incredible power The girls close in like maenads Or a river of piranhas Their bouffant hairdos Coming undone in the rain Their teeth and claws Gleaming like the frets of his guitar They know what they want Give them what they want Keith says they were a pirate nation With lawyers and clowns And attendants to pick up the pieces When he would get busted All traveling under one banner Keith says he gave away his daughter To live with his mother Since he was too wasted to be a good father And he knew he’d prob’ly End up in the slammer The girls don’t seem to mind the way The guy needs saving from the world They kiss and bless and bathe him They’d keep him if they could A brigade of Red Cross nurses Whose feelings don’t get hurt They know what they want Give them what they want Keith says the room just caught on fire While the babies were sleeping A mouse it came creeping and chewed on the wire The house and hotel Where they stayed for the trial Keith says let’s jump in the Bentley And go to Morocco Don’t you worry 'bout getting Your fix cause the stash in the secret Compartment will last us a while.
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Josh Deeter - I Could've Learned The Blues 03:45
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I could've learned the blues I could've practiced all the days of my youth I could've listened to Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, too I could've learned the blues Punk rock records were all the rage way way back in my high school days rebellious music we shunned the old ways and I didn't pay attention to the blues I could've learned the blues I could've practiced all the days of my youth I could've listened to Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, too I could've learned the blues The old guy at the open mic he's the kind that likes to play the blues and the jam bands with their restless hands pump out jam after jam after jam of the same souless white boy blues I'm older now and I've got the blues I work for a living and I've got a freight train load of issues my baby don't love me I ain't got no booze yes I'm starting to learn the blues I'm starting to learn the blues I don't need no practice you heard the news I'm drinking muddy water and sleepin in a hollow log, too I'm starting to learn the blues
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Dan and Rachel - A Musical Row for Keith and Mick 03:35
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J. J. Hayes - The Woods By The Thames 02:41
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These are live recordings from the September 15, 2011 Bushwick Book Club performance inspired by Keith Richards' "Life."

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released September 15, 2011

Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick. The train you hear on the recordings is the J/M/Z. Those are drunk people in the background. Actual, Bushwick, drunk folks who enjoy songs about books.
Flyer by Tom Bayne (tombayne.com)

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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