photo credit: Adam Wells Alternating narrative from his memoir, The
Paragraphs, with original song, legendary rocker Rick Berlin leapfrogs
one after the other, book and music fitting, however obliquely, hand
in a glove. Hilarious, disturbing, blunt and as honest as can be about
his life and odd world over the last few decades, Berlin offers up an
odyssey of song enhancing words and vice versa. Created from song
fragments, The Paragraphs recalls a life of music, a relationship with
the animal world, and a two-day meth-fueled road trip. Berlin writes
unflinchingly and with enormous heart about his family, along with
acid trips, body parts, cats, music, sex, love, philosophy, and the
vagaries of aginghes written more than a thousand songs, many of them
image-rich portraits of people and places that have earned him
comparisons to Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen.The Boston Globe
uncategorizablepart punk, part musical theater, part sentimental sap,
part wordplay master. Gold.Amanda Palmer Rick Berlin is a giant on the
Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting and strong stage presence
have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970sThe
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