Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem

Contents: Playlist

9 • PLAyLiST Liner notes I 15 SiDE ONE Essex House Hotel 19 naming 20 Exodus I (Chicago to St. Louis) 22 Ascension (A Lesson for Miss Martha) 24 The Amazing Donny Pitts & His Magic Ukulele 26 The Music: An Explanation to Miss Martha 28 Extensions 30 Trying Times, Central City 31 Moving Days 33 Anatomy 35 Midnight Hour 37 Exodus II (St. Louis to D.C.) 40 Meeting Eulaulah, Howard University 41 What Eulaulah Hears 43 negotiating the first Date 45 What Stars Are for 46 Meeting Eulaulah, Howard University (alternate take) 48 10 • Roberta, Rebirth 49 Miss Martha Meets Eulaulah 51 Roberta, Rebirth (alternate take) 52 Curtis Breaks It Down 53 Trio 54 S.R.o.: Mr. Henry’s, Capitol Hill 56 Troubador, 1971 58 The Bitter End 62 SiDE TWO notes on ‘Life,’ a Symphony 65 Liner notes II 66 The Hip 67 Jingles 68 The Uninvited (Visitor 1) 70 Sessions: new York 72 Whisperers 73 An Evening at St. Vincent 74 Diagnosis, 1973 75 Meds 76 11 • This Is Blues 77 In Case You Thought It Was Easy 78 The Uninvited (Visitor 2) 80 Chart Position (What Hits & What Does not, Take 1)81 Release Me 82 Phantom Limb 83 (Re)union 84 on Country & Western 86 This Is Blues (alternate take) 88 Roberta, Rebirth (alternate take 2) 89 Liner notes III 90 Process of a Love Song 91 What Eulaulah Hears (alternate take) 94 Chemistry 96 Chart Position (What Hits & What Does not, Take 2)97 Sessions: new York (alternate take) 98 Exits 100 Liner notes IV 101 The omega Sessions: Eight Steps Closer 102 Make It on My own 104 12 • The Last Supper (Roberta’s Apartment, Central Park West) 105 Essex House Hotel (alternate take) 106 Personnel 108 ...