Blues Bill Boethius
Bukowski's Blues

Bukowski’s Blues
As a contrast to my cosmic stuff, here’s some weird blues.
I always wanted to hear Bukowski talking his stuff over some wayward blues, so I took the following:
soundcloud.com/brainpicker/cha...ot-of-young-men
and put it over some rough edged blues. It sounds like a drunk blues band, but then that is only right when it comes to Bukowski.
Guitar used was the Vintage Flying V, and the bass was a Yamaha 5 string.

Credits:
Charles Bukowski reading his own poem, ‘Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men’.
Bill Boethius, all instruments, arrangement and production

brainpickings.org/index.php/20...��-of-young-men

FRIENDLY ADVICE TO A LOT OF YOUNG MEN

Go to Tibet
Ride a camel.
Read the bible.
Dye your shoes blue.
Grow a beard.
Circle the world in a paper canoe.
Subscribe to The Saturday Evening Post.
Chew on the left side of your mouth only.
Marry a woman with one leg and shave with a straight razor.
And carve your name in her arm.

Brush your teeth with gasoline.
Sleep all day and climb trees at night.
Be a monk and drink buckshot and beer.
Hold your head under water and play the violin.
Do a belly dance before pink candles.
Kill your dog.
Run for mayor.
Live in a barrel.
Break your head with a hatchet.
Plant tulips in the rain.

But don’t write poetry.