Jenny Sings Lenny––with Help from Stevie Ray
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within...
posted by greg rappleye at 3:32 PM
Sunday, March 22, 2009
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within...
About Me
- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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3 Comments:
"Famous Blue Raincoat," the Jenny-sings-Lenny disc, is an all-time favorite, with the great version of "Ain't No Cure For Love." The new, remastered version of the disc added "If It Be Your Will" - just beautiful.
I like Jenny, but I MUCH prefer Lenny's solo version.
Beth:
As I remember, I got the "Jenny Sings Lenny" title of this post from you.
Collin:
I'll take Jenny's version on this one.
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