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Music: For a time, Sam enjoyed being the drummer for late 1960s bands "Lothar and the Hand People" and "The Holy Modal Rounders" per a short interview in the August, 1970 issue of Playboy (the former confirmed by the interviewer, who was at the Astor Place Theater in NYC to see a twin-bill of the then-26-year-old Shepard's plays, "The Unseen Hand" and "Forensic and the Navigators") and encountered Shepard drumming away in the lobby with Lothar et al. Later, he collaborated with Bob Dylan in writing the song "Brownsville Girl," which appeared on Dylan's 1986 album "Knocked Out Loaded." The eleven-minute song is considered by many to be a bright spot in what was otherwise a creative drought for Dylan from the late seventies to the early nineties. In 2007, Shepard was featured playing banjo on Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's song, Smells Like Teen Spirit, on her album "Twelve." |
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Music Bibliography Berman, Paul. "Shepardsets." Nation. 1984 Dec 29; 724. Bigelow, Ernest Alanson , Jr. "A Symposium of Voices: Sam Shepard's Theater (Shepard Sam, Alter Egos, Monologue, Role Reversal)." Dissertation Abstracts International (53/03) 665; Ph.D.: State University of New York at Buffalo; 1992. Burk, Robert Eugene , Jr. "Reading Shepard and Lacan: A Dramaturgy of the Subject." Dissertation Abstracts International (47/12) 4326; Ph.D.: University of Washington; 1986. Chaikin, Joseph. The War in Heaven. New York: Blank Tape Studios; 1985. Collins, Robert Hammond. "American Realism and the Plays of Sam Shepard: A Study of Theme and Form." Dissertation Abstracts International (45/08) 2526; Ph.D.: University of Minnesota; 1984. Cott, Jonathan. "The Rolling Stone Interview--Sam Shepard." Rolling Stone. 1986 Dec 18; (489-490): 166-172, 198, 200. DeRose, David Joseph. "Lobster in the Livingroom: The Theatricality of Sam Shepard (Drama)." Dissertation Abstracts International (47/03) 712; Ph.D: University of California, Berkeley; 1985. Dylan, Bob. Knocked out Loaded. Secaucus, N.J.: Warner Bros. Publications; 1986. Fennell, Patrick J. "Angel City." Educational Theatre Journal. 1977 Mar; 112-13. Goldberg, Robert. "Sam Shepard: Off-Broadway's Street Cowboy." Rolling Stone College Papers. 1980 Dec; 43-45. Grant, Gary Michael. "A Theatre of Action Images: Sam Shepard and the American Avant-Garde Theatre." Dissertation Abstracts International (44/ 11); Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh; 1983. Hart, Lynda Lee. Sam Shepard's Metaphorical Stages. NY: Greenwood Press; 1987. Kauffmann, Stanley. "What Price Freedom?" Kennedy, Andrew K. Dramatic Dialogue: The Duologue of Personal Encounter. : Cambridge Univ. Press; 1983; 249-256. Kopit, Arthur. Chamber Music. New York; 1965; 38. Lion, John. "Rock 'n Roll Jesus with a Cowboy Mouth: Sam Shepard is the Inkblot of the '80s." American Theatre. 1984 Apr; (1): 4-8. Marranca, Bonnie. "Alphabetical Shepard: The Play of Words." Marranca, Bonnie. "American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard." NY: Performing Arts Journal; 1981. McBride, Steward Dill. "Sam Shepard." Christian Science Monitor. 1980 Dec 23: 2-3 (1). Moynihan, D. S. "Visual Music: CEMENT's Shepard Sets." The Drama Review. 1985 Jun; : 110-12. Murch, Anne. "Genet-Triana-Kopit: Ritual as 'Danse Macabre'." Modern Drama. 1973 Mar; 369-81. "New This Week/ Music." Newsday. 1997 Jan 6: B2. Pareles, Jon. "Music to Match the Beat in Early Shepard." New York Times. 1984 Nov 18: H4 (1). Powe, Bruce W. "The Tooth of Crime: Sam Shepard's Way with Music." Modern Drama. 1981 Mar; (1): 13-25, 39-46. Powe, Bruce W. "The Tooth of Crime: Sam Shepard's Way with Music." Parker, Dorothy. Essays on Modern American Drama. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1987: 174-187. Proctor, Elizabeth Clifton. "The Art of Sam Shepard (Modern Drama)." Dissertation Abstracts International (47/01) 181; Ph.D.: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 1985. Red Clay Ramblers. A Lie of the Mind. Durham, N.C.: Sugar Hill Records; 1986; p1986. Red Clay Ramblers. A Lie of the Mind. Salem, MA: Ryko; 1986. Shepard, Sam. A lie of the mind: a play in three acts. San Francisco, CA: Union Press; 1993. Shepard, Sam. Rolling Thunder Logbook. Harmondsworth: Penguin; 1978. Shepard, Sam. "Rolling Thunder Logbook (book review)." Doherty, Thomas. American Music. 1988 Sep; : 345-9. Strinati, Dominic. "Book Reviews-Looka Yonder! The Imaginary America of Populist Culture by Duncan Webster." Sociological Review. 1990 May(n2): p.397-401. Tynan, Kenneth. Oh! Calcutta!: An Entertainment with Music. 2nd printing ed. New York: Grove Press; 1969; c1969. (GP-603). Watt, Douglas. "Talk and, uh, music." Whew! The Daily News. 1979 Nov 15. "What's hot now." Greensboro News & Record. 1997 Jan 9 (D1). Zent, Maureen. "Olympic Artists Let the Music, Dance, Art and Other Culture Begin Festival Has Opera--and Elvis, Too." The Salt Lake Tribune. 1996 Jul 14: E1. |
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The Musician "I was different on drugs - crystal Methedrine, which had more of an edge. When you walked down the street, your heels made sparks." Sam Shepard |
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