May 25, 1957 Samm Bennett, Japan - Index to songs with lyrics by title: A-C
Though originally from Alabama, I do believe it can be said that the last thirty years of his creations and innovations have been inspired by his living in Japan. And not *Alabama.
*A is for an asterisk for Alabama
He comes from Alabama and way more than with a banjo on his knee, all the way to Japan with a new life in this new century but bringing with him both the avant-garde sensibilities of the eighties and his life long love and exploration of traditional deep south song stylings, Bob Dylan constructions, social awareness that never left the protest field and of course, the kind of wordiness that really, Taylor Shift should take note of if she wants to get out of her mega-bubble.
B is for Bennett
One original concept was that I wanted to close every substack with a Samm Bennett video, sort of a reward to those who scrolled all the way, but as it turns out I really had over a year’s worth of materials on the festival to fill one calendar. Luckily for my personal workload which gets more and more irrelevant as I…