Mark Weber
Zerx Press
725 Van Buren Place SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108

Dear Mark:

Bobby Bradford just sent me Purple Gums and Bobby Bradford & the Mo'tet Live at the Los Angeles Museum of Art. I see where your recorded the mo'tet.

Don't remember if I sent you Root Doctor or not. My son Balder has a reggae-bluegrass fusion band called Dread Clampitt. Root Doctor is like the liner notes to their debut album, Dread Clampitt, with the title song, "Dread Clampitt."

My wife and I both enjoyed your chapbook Wandering Jew Mom.

I think Michael Basinski reviewed it at the-hold.com and I ordered a copy.

I just included an essay of his on small press poetry in an anthology on underground writing I am editing.

Here's a copy of Bukowski Never Did This. A novel about combining writing, work, and family.

Here also is The Saunders Brothers: The Doghouse Sessions. Owen on fiddle and Balder on mandolin.

I was in an Air Force band in Waco, Texas, with Bobby in 1957.

Used to drive with him to Dallas to hear music. He is from Dallas. But by the time I knew him he had played with Ornette Coleman in L. A.

Willie Nelson is from Abbott, near Waco. I once played drums with Willie's sister in a bar off base called The Turf Club. Back when country music was about Okies and the Dust Bowl. Her two big numbers on piano were "Tiger Rag" and "Beer Barrel Polka."

I talk about these people as if I know them.

I don't. But, in a way, I do. Like the kid hollering on the live record at the L. A. Art Museum.

Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books
Box 10501
Panama City, FL 32404