Poet

And before that, we heard Eyesight to the Blind, a Sonny Boy Williamson song performed by Mose Allison.

And before Mose Allison, we heard Sly and the Family Stone from 1971 with a tune called Poet.

And we started that set off with Mac Rebenak, a.k.a. Dr. John, from 1959.

Cued up and ready to go, Stevie Wonder pays tribute to Bob Dylan.

Back in late 1997 and early 1998, when the band went into the studio with producer Steve Berlin, they were operating at a peak level of creative chemistry.

While songs like Poets, Bob Cajun, and Save the Planet made the final cut, a small cluster of brilliant tracks were left behind in the tape vaults.

Mystery is quintessential late 90s hip.

Driven by a slow-burning, hypnotic rhythm and those lush, layered guitars from Rob Baker and Paul Langlois, it gives Gore Downey the perfect canvas for a reflective, late-night vocal delivery that is pure poetry.

And so all the contracts were by year by year.

And so poetry itself is a privilege, and you've had the privilege and, of course, the immense talent to not only write poetry, but you've anthologized poetry.

You've actually written a very large, um, collected a very large collection of The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.

And I wanted to ask you about the politics of bringing that together.

What is Indian poetry in a land of poets and, and lyricists and, and fanatics [laughs] and, you know? And, um, uh, you know, so many people write poetry all the time in different languages.

I want to say one thing about poetry and about privilege.

Mm-hmm.

The, the thing that we can say about poets, whichever part of the world that they come from, is this: We know that no person who writes poetry chose it for the money, right? Poetry makes no money-

Of the seven volumes of his works first printed, and twenty more which may be published some day, only two, The Week and Walden, appeared in his lifetime, though the material for two more had been scattered about in forgotten magazines and newspapers for his friends to collect after his death.

Of his first works and some of his best it could be said, as Thomas Warton said in 1781 of his friend Gray's verses: "I yet reflect with pain upon the cool reception which these noble odes, The Progress of Poetry and The Bard, met at their first publication.

It appeared there were not twenty people in England who liked them." This disturbed Thoreau's friends, but not himself.

He rather rejoiced in the slow sale of his first book, and when the balance of the edition—more than seven hundred copies out of one thousand—came back upon his hands unsold in 1855 and earlier he told me with glee that he had made an addition of seven hundred volumes to his library, and all of his own composition.

It's got some of their best-known songs on this, some of their best-loved songs.

The opening track, Poets, is absolutely amazing.

I think Bob Cajun's on this one, and that is an absolutely stunning song.

Let me just check.