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      • 6.1.2.1: Early Years
      • 6.1.2.2: 1950s
      • 6.1.2.3: 1960s
        • 6.1.2.3.1: Thelonious Monk 1960
        • 6.1.2.3.2: SS America March 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.3: Man Ray 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.4: Maurice Girodias & Peter Orlovsky Paris 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.5: Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, Paris 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.6: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky Paris 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.7: Jacques Stern in St Tropez 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.8: Bidding Peter Farewell
        • 6.1.2.3.9: New Delhi 1962
        • 6.1.2.3.10: Dharamsala 1962
        • 6.1.2.3.11: Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Robin Blaser 1963
        • 6.1.2.3.12: Allen Ginsberg and Lew Welch 1963
        • 6.1.2.3.13: Nicanor Parra Havana 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.14: Miguel Grinberg, Cuba 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.15: City Lights 1963
        • 6.1.2.3.16: King of May 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.17: Prague 1965 spy photo
        • 6.1.2.3.18: Jan Zábrana Prague 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.19: Barbara Rubin London 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.20: Basil Bunting 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.21: Barbara Rubin, Ginsberg's 39th Birthday
        • 6.1.2.3.22: Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.23: Peace Eye Bookstore
        • 6.1.2.3.24: Passaic Falls 1966
        • 6.1.2.3.25: Human Be In 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.26: Human Be In 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.27: Spoleto Festival 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.28: Spoleto Festival 1967 Detained at Spoleto Festival
        • 6.1.2.3.29: Ezra Pound, Portofino 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.30: Burroughs, Genet & Hoffman Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.31: Burroughs, Genet, Southern etc. Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.32: Burroughs, Genet, Southern etc. Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.33: Genet and Ginsberg Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.34: Genet, Ginsberg, Southern, Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.35: Ed Sanders, Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.36: Rajat Neogy 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.37: Cherry Valley 1969

        • Current page is 6.1.2.3.38: Apostolic Studios Recording Blake

        • 6.1.2.3.39: Herbert Huncke Cherry Valley Farm
        • 6.1.2.3.41: Gregory Corso and Nanao Sakaki Santa Fe
      • 6.1.2.4: 1970s
      • 6.1.2.5: 1980s
      • 6.1.2.6: 1990s
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Recording Blake songs at Apostolic Studios, New York City, June 1969. Barry Miles produced the project and was able to get MGM/Verve interested in releasing it and advance Allen fees for the recording. Don Cherry, Julius Watkins and Don Cherry among others joined on as backup musicians. the Album was released as "Blake Songs of Innocence & Experience" later that year.  licensing >>

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