Spoken Word — New Arrivals 
Spoken word -- plus sports records and even some Folkways oddities!
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Last Poets —
Right On! ... LP 
Juggernaut, 1968. Near Mint- Gatefold ... $14.99
One of the wildest albums ever by the mighty Last Poets! Billed as "a woodstock in poetry", this is the soundtrack to the obscure film Right On (billed as "the hit film" on the cover), which was shot using the first version of the Last Poets that included Felipe Lucianao, David ... (Soul, Spoken Word) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Recent reissue. Cover is in great shape!)
Various —
Time To Run "B" Campaign – I Love You, I Love You/
World Wide Pictures, 1973. Near Mint- ... $9.99
Includes four each of 60 second radio spots and 30 second radio spots, plus a snippet from "I Love You, I Love you" from the film "Time To Run", each ending with a short but funky theme! (Funky 45's, Spoken Word) 7-inch, Vinyl record
(Promo.)
Various —
Time To Run "A" Campaign – 60 Second Radio Spots ... 7-inch World Wide Pictures, 1973. Near Mint- ... $9.99
Includes five 60 second radio spots for the film "Time To Run", each ending with a short but funky theme! (Funky 45's, Spoken Word) 7-inch, Vinyl record
(Mono promo.)
Kenneth Patchen —
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada ... CD 
Folkways, 1958. New Copy ... $12.99 16.99
Kenneth Patchen, like Kenneth Rexroth, was one of the few poets who really understood what it meant to read and write in a jazz idiom – as you'll hear on this excellent set of beatnik jazz tracks! The album features Patchen reading in a great style – angular, cynical, really working ... read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Langston Hughes —
Story Of Jazz ... CD Folkways, 1954. New Copy ... $12.99
A very cool record! Langston tells the story of jazz, using snippets of work from the Folkways catalog – like tunes by Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodd, Ma Rainey, Leadbelly, and others – all sewn together in a rich narrative on the history of the music, delivered with some surprising ... read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Nancy Dupree —
Letter To Young Sisters & Other Poems By Nancy Dupree ... CD Asch/Folkways, 1970. New Copy ... $12.99 16.98
A fantastic record from Nancy Dupree – a hip poet with a mission towards raising social consciousness and increasing a sense of pride and power in the younger generation – all of which comes through very strongly in this classic Folkways Records set! The album is way more than just ... (Soul, Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Angela Davis —
Angela Davis Speaks ... CD Folkways, 1971. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
A really unique document of the struggle and story of Angela Davis – recorded in 1971 by ABC news, and packaged together here as kind of a sonic program by Folkways! The record works like a short news program – starting out with a statement by Angela, then moving to a narrated ... read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Langston Hughes —
Voice Of Langston Hughes ... CD Folkways, 1950s. New Copy ... $11.99 16.98
A wonderful collection of work from Langston Hughes – material pulled from a handful of albums recorded for the Folkway labels in the 50s, all of which are pretty darn great and long out of print! Hughes' writings are well known – part of a rich tradition of African-American expression ... read more CD
Sonia Sanchez —
Sun Lady For All Seasons Reads Her Poetry ... CD Folkways, 1971. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
Very righteous work from this obscure 70s poet – a contemporary to Nikki Giovanni, Camille Yarbrough, and others – but not nearly as widely recorded! The album features no instrumentation, just Sonia reading her poems – and the work itself is pretty progressive, very much in the ... read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Timothy Leary & Ralph Metzner —
Psychedelic Experience ... CD Folkways, 1966. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
A wonderful early bit of psychedelia from an academic perspective – a record that features Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert – all reading from the book The Psychedelic Experience A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead! The album's divided up into two sections ... read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Laurie Anderson —
Mister Heartbreak ... LP Warner, 1984. Near Mint- ... $7.99
(Rock, Spoken Word) LP, Vinyl record album
(Includes the printed inner sleeve. Cover has light wear and aging.)
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