Holding some of these albums in my hand, I was a vibrato of memory.

As a teen, I found a long poster of Mick—toes, torso, impassioned face—and hung it over my bed. Mick Jagger was the first face I saw every morning.

The tribal connection between poetry and music is both ancient and current, and the literary works of some musicians are crucial to our culture: Nick Cave’s novels, the indefatigable Lydia Lunch, and the ever spectral Patti Smith. Also, that the connection between music and painting can be seen as overt– from the strangely ethereal doodles […]