Greenberger,David / Prime Lens My Thoughts Approximately CD

My Thoughts Approximately draws on four decades of conversations David Greenberger has had with elderly in various cities and circumstances, which are the starting point for the thirty emotionally, rich, character driven monologues. The recording sessions begin with musical ideas from the ensemble. Greenberger matches his text to the composition, allowing it to develop in the studio. Greenberger is best known for 32 years of his periodical, The Duplex Planet, which was borne out of his conversations with residents at a nursing home in Boston beginning in 1979. Over time monologues + music evolved, the elements working in tandem to form what he refers to as "a band with a guy talking."

1. Buttons, Buttons 2. An Automobile Driver 3. Alice Baker 4. Refugees 5. Bread of Life 6. My Princess 7. In Praise of Sailing 8. A Lot of Things Are Real 9. Vikings and Ham 10. All These Astronaut Guys 11. Impedimenta 12. Loud Shakespeare 13. End of Days 14. A Warning 15. The Halloween Party 16. Dynamo 17. Peabody Quartet 18. Heaven 19. Unfictitious Wet Monkeys 20. Hear the Sizzle 21. A Timeless World 22. Two Boats, Drifting 23. Home at Last 24. Onion and the Trail Cutter 25. Hummingbird Pie 26. Ruby's 27. Jerry Lewis in France 28. Devil in the Greyhound 29. Knocked Out 30. A Dream Life