"Crossroads of America"  Parental Advisory genre: Alternative General
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	Times Square is the backdrop in this paean to the city's lost grit and inspiration. The spirits of Kerouac, jazz and B-movies are invoked: "The ghosts of Kerouac and Monk/ waltz with the wrecker ball/ they dance the runaway dream/ for leave sailors and poet boys/ the masterbuilder's crane is chewing/ out the pits of B-movie queens.
	CD: King Kong Serenade   Label: Blue City Records Credits: Rock poet Allen Shadow, guitar, vocals; Bob Dylan/Lucinda Williams guitar alumnus John Jackson; John Prine drummer Paul Griffith, and Janis Ian keyboard player Randy Leago.
	Lyrics Words & Music by Allen Shadow Minnie Mouse gets grabassed by a white whiskered alchy in the leftover 50’s light of the arcades of 42nd Street jazz Cadillacs scream in octaves generations wait at the cosmic light Chorus At the crossroads of America The ghosts of Kerouac and Monk waltz with the wrecker ball they dance the runaway dream for leave sailors and poet boys the masterbuilder’s crane is chewing spitting out the pits of B-movie queens The millennium bus is coming the ball’s about to fall the mean streets of inspiration metamorphose into a mal

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