Allen Ginsberg'S The Fall Of America: 50Th Anniv. - Allen Ginsberg'S The Fall Of America: A 50Th Anniversary Musical Tribute 04/27/2026 JC • A Fistful Of Instrumentals

• A Fistful Of Instrumentals : A 10" EP of previously unreleased

It achieved gold record status and gave the band their highest charting mainstream rock single "Stranger in Town" (#7)

touching on some of the events and societal issues of the past year - 'Bent and Broken' expressing this the most explicitly

with an 'Album of the Day' and support from Gilles Peterson

Recorded in May 1978

Allen Ginsberg'S The Fall Of America: 50Th Anniv. - Allen Ginsberg'S The Fall Of America: A 50Th Anniversary Musical Tribute 04/27/2026 JC • A Fistful Of InstrumentalsVarious artists musically interpret poems from "The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965 1971" on this 50th Anniversary Tribute to Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America. Featuring Yo La Tengo, Shintaro Sakamoto, Angelique Kidjo, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Devendra Banhart, Bill Frisell, Andrew Bird and more. "In 1965, Bob Dylan gifted Allen Ginsberg with a Uher, reel to reel tape recorder, which Ginsberg was to use to record his thoughts and