Will Heinrich
November 26, 2023
Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
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Statesboro Blues/Church Bell Blues, David Bromberg, 1974
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Statesboro Blues, Blind Willie McTell, 1929
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East St. Louis Blues, Blind WIllie McTell, 1933
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It's Nobody's Fault but Mine, Blind Willie Johnson, 1927
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Oh Glory, How Happy I Am, Rev. Gary Davis. 1973
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Mannish Boy, Muddy Waters, 1955
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I Bid You Goodnight; Bahamas Folk, Calypso Ensemble; date unknown
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Samson And Delilah, Dave Van Ronk, 1989
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Silver Dagger, Dolly Parton, 1999
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I Am Stretched on Your Grave, Sinéad O’Connor, 1990
- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Richard Thompson, 1952
- Yeah! Oh, Yeah! The Magnetic Fields, 1999
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You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen, 2016
- You Gotta Move, Mississippi Fred McDowell, 1965
- Let Me Die In My Footsteps (Studio Outtake), Bob Dylan, 1962
- The Traitor, Martha Wainwright, 2006
- A Very Cellular Song (2010 remaster), The Incredible String Band, 1968
Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. His first novel, The King's Evil, was published by Scribner in 2003 and won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004; his most recent novel, The Pearls, was published by Elective Affinity in 2019. He has written about art for the New Yorker, New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Art in America, and, since 2017, for the New York Times.