Backmasking / Harold Whit Williams.
"The poems of Backmasking uncover secret messages of rock and roll in relation to religion, mostly in a loose sonnet form reminiscent of David Wojahn's classic, Mystery Train. Set mainly in the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama, these narrative poems, spun in reverse, detail a young man's...
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Huntsville, Texas :
Texas Review Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Side 4
- Call to prayer
- Tracking the new record
- Still life with graveyard and deer
- Liam Gallagher, uninterpreted, backstage
- Road show in Outer Banks
- New Year's Eve Christian rock show
- Fame studio session
- Performing "When a man loves a woman" with Percy Sledge's son, Flip
- Last day in the ICU
- To someone else's God
- Villanelle for bloodbait
- Side 3
- My first rally
- Playing along with "Are you experienced", backwards guitar solo
- Three Dog Night keyboardist gives anti-drug speech at Deshler High School
- Backmasking presentation, United Methodist Church youth group
- Still life with Methodist youth retreat and tropical depression
- First electric guitar, Sears & Roebuck special
- A Valdosta family tragedy
- Discovering an issue of Playboy in Tom's attic
- Tent revival on Hawk Pride Mountain
- To Dean Young's new heart, which I can hear beating on the eastside
- Pantoum from Wilson Pickett interview
- Side 2
- April in Paris
- A Valdosta pastoral
- A Valdosta girlfriend
- Purchasing a first album, Charlie Daniels Band, Saddle Tramp, Pegasus Records
- Oldtime fiddler's convention
- Christmas morning, Mama Tidwell's
- Watching a Saturday matinee with Daddy and Granddaddy, John Wayne in Big Jake
- Ottis Williams on WJBB radio
- Billy Sherrill borrows Granddaddy's Martin acoustic
- Crazed man changes weather
- A few lines composed on lunch break concerning Charles Mingus, circa 1959
- Side 1
- Do this in remembrance of me
- Are you washed in the blood?
- The Happy Hitters sing songs of praise at the Pisgah Baptist Church
- Charlie Tidwell on Gobbler's Knob, tossing rocks at passing automobiles on Highway 43
- Young Betty Evelyn Tidwell with the Hess Family Quartet
- Old Union Baptist Church
- Private Whit Williams surrendering with Lee
- Mapmaking: the early years
- A medium-sized theology
- Time travel, a how-to
- Rabbit tobacco.