David Greenberger - 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."

Track List:

Disc: 1

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