Straight Life Audiocast: Episode One
by Art Pepper
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STRAIGHT LIFE was published in 1979. It got rave reviews in the New Yorker, the Village Voice, Time Magazine. It has become a classic. But It is grossly politically incorrect. It was an honest book in which Art spoke the language of his class, his race, his gender, his time. So, if anyone is triggered by drugs, violence, dirty words, misogyny, racism, rape, and a generally rotten attitude, AVOID THIS BOOK.
BECAUSE the publisher won't spring for an audio edition of Straight Life, and BECAUSE I can't afford to hire a studio or an actor, I'm sitting here, in front of my computer with a nice little mic and reading it to you myself. All of it. A little at a time.
I'm going to turn this into a podcast eventually. When I've recorded enough chapters. It will include music, some will be complete tracks. Episodes will be of different lengths.
I do have the original tapes on which I recorded Art's voice telling me his story. And I would LOVE to give you the story in his voice which I do prefer to mine. But
1. many of the tapes are noisy and mumbly and inaudible.
2. Much of the material in the book is missing from the tapes. A lot of the narrative I wrote was gleaned from unrecorded conversations.
3. The material that was recorded would need massive editing. I've already done that once. It took seven years. I can't do it again. BUT...
what I can do is offer little bon
DOWNLOAD ALL THE EPISODES (So Far) bit.ly/All-So-Far
STRAIGHT LIFE was published in 1979. It got rave reviews in the New Yorker, the Village Voice, Time Magazine. It has become a classic. But It is grossly politically incorrect. It was an honest book in which Art spoke the language of his class, his race, his gender, his time. So, if anyone is triggered by drugs, violence, dirty words, misogyny, racism, rape, and a generally rotten attitude, AVOID THIS BOOK.
BECAUSE the publisher won't spring for an audio edition of Straight Life, and BECAUSE I can't afford to hire a studio or an actor, I'm sitting here, in front of my computer with a nice little mic and reading it to you myself. All of it. A little at a time.
I'm going to turn this into a podcast eventually. When I've recorded enough chapters. It will include music, some will be complete tracks. Episodes will be of different lengths.
I do have the original tapes on which I recorded Art's voice telling me his story. And I would LOVE to give you the story in his voice which I do prefer to mine. But
1. many of the tapes are noisy and mumbly and inaudible.
2. Much of the material in the book is missing from the tapes. A lot of the narrative I wrote was gleaned from unrecorded conversations.
3. The material that was recorded would need massive editing. I've already done that once. It took seven years. I can't do it again. BUT...
what I can do is offer little bon
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"Straight Life" — slang, The truth. The snippet of music at the start is of Art's original tune "Straight Life"
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Art Pepper Los Angeles, California
Born in 1925 in Gardena, CA, and raised in San Pedro, CA. Incredible life can't be summarized here! Read all about it in STRAIGHT LIFE at Amazon. Read what it was like being married to him in ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman. Amazon ditto.
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