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"Writer" was inspired by my own failures, Robert Frost, and the short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway. With Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green and Benny Carter as the African with no piety from the film of the same name. Beats courtesy The Loop Loft.

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CYNTHIA GREEN: (Sighs.) Hasn't that African got any piety at all?

I'm writing another book about a writer.
I barely started it.
It's in my head.
It's always changing.
Cut and paste.
Undo.
Redo.
Undo.

Yet another book about a writer.
There are too many.
The devil said so.
Her name is Brooke.
She wrote a book.
About a stripper.
Who was writer.
It's the same thing.
If you're doing it right.
It's the same thing.
If you're doing it right.

Should I let my writer save the world?
Should I let him get the girl then write it all down?
Quill and ink or vintage Smith Corona - whatever's cooler.
He gets it all down.
Better than I could.

Time for breaking bread loaf with the writers.
Real writers.
As suggested.
By the powers that be.
This is my sigh.
Ages hence.
I retreated.
I wasn't ready.
I hadn't lived yet.
I'm still waiting.
But in the meantime (These are the snows)
But in the meantime (of Kilimanjaro)...

I've written another song about a book about a writer.

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from Songs About Books About Writers, released January 1, 2017
The Buggy Jive is:
BT: Vox, Acoustic Guitar, Rising Action
Jennifer: Lead Guitars, Backing Vox, Climax
Cleopatra Jones: Bass, Backing Vox, Falling Action
DJ Lady Mac: Beats, Samples, Synths, Backing Vox, Denouement

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Bryan Thomas Albany

Nippertown’s Greg Haymes says Albany soul rocker BRYAN THOMAS's "writes smart, and he writes from the heart, balancing intellect, passion and politics.”

The Times Union named him“Best Male Singer-Songwriter” shortly after he released his acoustic hip-hop debut Radio Plastic Jennifer in 1999. The follow-up soul rock epic Ones and Zeros was Metroland Magazine’s “Album of the Year” in 2002.
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