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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite.
    Featuring poetry by Marc Beaudin and music by former members of the bands Morphine and Orchestra Morphine, Dana Colley, Billy Conway and Laurie Sargent.
    Compact disc in full-color 4-panel digipack with 8-page full-color booklet of poems and photography by Marc Beaudin.

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2) The Whistle Sounds

There is, of course,
another music
The whistle of a nighttime train –
distant & lonely
as a photo stuck
in the pages of a family Bible leaning
on the shelves of a secondhand store

A whistle that once sang of freedom
now murmurs death
that once emulated the frets of Woody Guthrie’s guitar
now mimics white crosses planted
in endless rows

But really,
it’s time we stop romanticizing the rails
If you want to know
what a train whistle sounds like
Ask the Lakota
Ask the buffalo

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Marc Beaudin Livingston, montana

Poetry & spoken word infused with jazz.
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” – John Coltrane

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