Backmasking
By: Harold Whit Williams
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Huntsville, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
ISBN-13: 9781937875763
Subjects: Poetry; Rock music
Work titles: Poems
Description: "The poems of Backmasking uncover secret messages of rock and roll in relation to religion, mostly in a loose sonnet form reminiscent of David Wojahn's classic, Mystery Train. Set mainly in the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama, these narrative poems, spun in reverse, detail a young man's ascent into the glittery world of guitar heroes, all the while singing out the day-to-day absurdities of the sacred and the profane."--
Table of contents: title: Side 4; title: Call to prayer; title: Tracking the new record; title: Still life with graveyard and deer; title: Liam Gallagher, uninterpreted, backstage; title: Road show in Outer Banks; title: New Year's Eve Christian rock show; title: Fame studio session; title: Performing "When a man loves a woman" with Percy Sledge's son, Flip; title: Last day in the ICU; title: To someone else's God; title: Villanelle for bloodbait; title: Side 3; title: My first rally; title: Playing along with "Are you experienced", backwards guitar solo; title: Three Dog Night keyboardist gives anti-drug speech at Deshler High School; title: Backmasking presentation, United Methodist Church youth group; title: Still life with Methodist youth retreat and tropical depression; title: First electric guitar, Sears & Roebuck special; title: A Valdosta family tragedy; title: Discovering an issue of Playboy in Tom's attic; title: Tent revival on Hawk Pride Mountain; title: To Dean Young's new heart, which I can hear beating on the eastside; title: Pantoum from Wilson Pickett interview; title: Side 2; title: April in Paris; title: A Valdosta pastoral; title: A Valdosta girlfriend; title: Purchasing a first album, Charlie Daniels Band, Saddle Tramp, Pegasus Records; title: Oldtime fiddler's convention; title: Christmas morning, Mama Tidwell's; title: Watching a Saturday matinee with Daddy and Granddaddy, John Wayne in Big Jake; title: Ottis Williams on WJBB radio; title: Billy Sherrill borrows Granddaddy's Martin acoustic; title: Crazed man changes weather; title: A few lines composed on lunch break concerning Charles Mingus, circa 1959; title: Side 1; title: Do this in remembrance of me; title: Are you washed in the blood?; title: The Happy Hitters sing songs of praise at the Pisgah Baptist Church; title: Charlie Tidwell on Gobbler's Knob, tossing rocks at passing automobiles on Highway 43; title: Young Betty Evelyn Tidwell with the Hess Family Quartet; title: Old Union Baptist Church; title: Private Whit Williams surrendering with Lee; title: Mapmaking: the early years; title: A medium-sized theology; title: Time travel, a how-to; title: Rabbit tobacco.