https://johnsinclair.bandcamp.com/album/fly-right-a-monk-suite
fly right – a monk suite
Blow Baby Blow
by John Sinclair & Various Artists
Blow Baby Blow is a compilation album as evidence for John’s half century of investigative poetry, set to music. The provenance of the poems reaches back to the early 1960s and up to 2020. The music takes a different route starting in the mid 1980s and including dozens of recording sessions, live shows and musicians, loosely referred to as the Blues Scholars. John’s whole thing, historical verse set to music, is captured here.
This selection of poems set to music were first intended for release together with his last book ‘John Sinclair, The Collected Poems 1964-2024’ in 2020, the book “Uncollected Poems” was re-presented as Mobile Homeland and added to “The Collected Poems”, run off to print in February 2024 (Ridgeway Press). The album artwork is upscaled from a photograph taken by Leni Sinclair, kindly sent by Celia. Yes, that’s John Sinclair honking on the saxophone!
Proceeds from this album will go towards the John Sinclair Headstone Fund. Please spread the word and enjoy the music, lotsa love.
–Steve Fly
25/12/2025
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released December 26, 2025
Poetry and spoken words by John Sinclair + music by various artists.
Foundation Records-36 (2025) JSFR-36
Everybody Loves My Baby
- fly right – a monk suite
- Blow Baby Blow
- JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 580X – HEY SANTA CLAUS
- John Sinclair Radio Show Selection
- Everybody Loves My Baby
- John Sinclair Is Free
- John Sinclair – Celebration Of Life – Four Twenty
- NEON SHRINES 59 – READING ON THE TOILET
- THE GROOVE YARD 259 – OPEN SESAME
- FACE THE MUSIC 259 – TEXAS TEA
- THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 434 – SOUL SYMPHONY
- FLY BY NIGHT 553 – BRAINWASHED
- DON WAS MOTOR CITY PLAYLIST 29 – CROSS COUNTRY
- MOOD INDIGO 69 – SOULFUL STRUT
- SOUNDS OF BLUE 433 – SPOONFUL
- NOTHING BUT THE BLUES 30 – BOOM BOPPA BOOM
- BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 231 – BIG BAG OF BLUES
- THE BLUES SHOW 626 – FACE THE MUSIC
- JAZZ LUNATIQUE 469 – SHOO FLY
- JAZZ ROOTS 38 – FASCINATING RHYTHM
- JAZZ FROM JAX BREWERY 93 – PICTURE FRAME
- JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1055 – TANGLED UP IN BLUE
- NEON SHRINES 58 – ONCE IN A LIFETIME
- THE GROOVE YARD 258 – ON THE TRAIL
- FACE THE MUSIC 258 – TEMPO DI JUMP
- THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 433 – CONTRACT ON LOVE
- FLY BY NIGHT 552 – POOKA DOTS
- DON WAS MOTOR CITY PLAYLIST 28 – PEACE ON EARTH
- MOOD INDIGO 68 – WAY BACK HOME
- SOUNDS OF BLUE 432 – D.C. BOOGIE
- NOTHING BUT THE BLUES 29 – MOJO BOOGIE
- BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 230 – THAT MELLOW SAXOPHONE
- JAZZ LUNATIQUE 468 – GOT TO GET READY
- JAZZ ROOTS 37 – PASSIONETTE
- JAZZ FROM JAX BREWERY 92 – COMING HOME
- JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1054 – THE DELTA SOUND
- NEON SHRINES 57 – SWEET DREAMS
- THE GROOVE YARD 257 – BLUESNIK
- FACE THE MUSIC 257 – THREE FIFTEEN BLUES
- THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 432 – FEEL IT
- FLY BY NIGHT 551 – NON SERVIAM
- DON WAS MOTOR CITY PLAYLIST 27 – GROOVY SITUATION
- SOUNDS OF BLUE 431 – THE COMEBACK
- NOTHING BUT THE BLUES 28 – GOOD TIME CHARLIE
- BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 229 – LIFE AIN’T EASY
- THE BLUES SHOW 624 – GREVIANCE BLUES
- JAZZ LUNATIQUE 467 – LET’S LIVE
- JAZZ ROOTS 36 – ACHIN’ HEARTED BLUES
- JAZZ FROM JAX BREWERY 91 – BUILT FOR COMFORT
- JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1053 – BIRD FLIES SOUTH & EAST
- NEON SHRINES 56 – THE CONFESSIONS OF THOTH
- THE GROOVE YARD 256 – THE CONNECTION
JOHN SINCLAIR AND HIS BLUES SCHOLARS – FAT BOY
for Charles Moore
There is something
about the American
mind
set on de-
struction, re-
lent-
less, un-
penitent,
eager to bomb
There is the hatred
that fuels the A-
merican mind,
the shriveled-up
heart
the heartless
always ready
to kill
& maim
brutal
with the urge
to crush & destroy
This is where
they built Fat Man, Mr. U-
235
& they sent
Fat Man
& Little Boy
to Japan
to level Hiroshima
& Nagasaki
They love Fat Boy
they feed him the sweets
of their hearts
singing their filthy songs
into Fat Boy’s u-
ranium ears
& let the rest of us
eat the shit
of their hatred
of anything
or anyone
that is not them
Ah! Fat Boy
so round & ugly
so full of hate
stuffed
with the dead spirits
of the Americans
blinded
& lost
in the deserts of Iraq
—John Sinclair
Detroit
April 9/June 1, 1982
Flint, MI
April 4, 2003
John Sinclair And His International Blues Scholars – Let’s Go Get Em’ (Album)
“Even though he is an expatriate, John Sinclair should be declared a national treasure. He’s a poet, historian and musicologist who, instead of publishing his research and findings, declaims them in the oral tradition with music. His latest works revisits themes he has worked with before and also adds several new poems and interpretations to his work. Let’s Go Get ‘Em features odes to friends and loved ones, whether it is remembering an evening with a lover who whistles Charles Mingus’ “Moanin’” or professing thanks and love to another with a reference to the Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four.” There are also several political pieces here, including his reworking of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ United Nations’ speech “Smells like Sulfur.” The music has a great groove that simmers and occasionally boils over, whether in the acid rock taste of “Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky” or the deep mellow spice of his dedication to Mardi Gras Indians, “We Love Big Chief.”
—David Kunian
https://www.offbeat.com/music/john-sinclair-and-his-international-blues-scholars-lets-go-get-em-mo-sounds/
We Love Big Chief
