Sung and rapped lyrics on irresponsible friends and lovers, modern consumerism and poverty enflame an outstanding album that blazes through his almost showy arsenal. The book is especially valueable for HjortsbergвЂ™s forensic account of the San Francisco that exploded around Brautigan, from 1964 into the Summer of Love, including his eccentric solidarity with street activists the Diggers. On his second full-length we find 19 year-old Raury Tullis an impassioned and vexed hip-hop/soul/folk prodigy. His life, work and combustible relationships with a period army of bold-face names in writing, film and music вЂ“ including Allen Ginsberg, Peter Fonda, Janis Joplin and, for a time, Jimmy Buffett вЂ“ are examined in overwhelming but magnetic detail in William HjortsbergвЂ™s definitive 2012 biography, Jubilee Hitchiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan (Counterpoint). British psychedelic explorer Robyn Hitchcock the teenage R&B phenomenon Raury from Atlanta and, via a Beatle-esque tribute by the Seattle folk-rock project Case Studies, the late poet-novelist Richard Brautigan.ДЄ San Francisco Renaissance icon whose work frequently appeared in the early pages of Rolling Stone, Brautigan was a paradox of compact, free-associative eloquence and self-destructive alcoholic rampage (he took his own life in 1984, at 49).

There is no running theme in this outing, aside from the strong new music that has come through in late summer вЂ“ warm, chunky blues from veteran guitarist Elvin Bishop Communion, a four-sided conceptual blast from the Canadian power-pop band Sloan вЂ“В and a lot of names starting with R: the California grinding-blues band Rival Sons, currently blowing up in the U.K.

Raury all we need leak