- Instrument: AMG Contributor
Biography
Becky Byrkit is an accomplished poet and fiction writer with over 80 magazine publications to her name. Her first book, zealand (SUN/gemini Press), was nominated for the Western States' Book Award in 1996. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 1995, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, and Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars. Becky was commissioned by the Warhol/Maddox Foundation as a contributor to a David Bowie retrospective (due in 2002). She's worked as an instructor of creative writing and film literature at the University of Arizona, and founded the Voice & Range Registry of Collaborative Artists in 1990 as a means of bringing artists of various disciplines together. Her forthcoming book, Suite: Mary of the Nine, is due from PaperBrain Press in the Spring of 1999.She works as a consultant to memoirists and listens to music pretty much all goddamn day.
25 records for AMG: "Desert Island List"
Anything, especially with Nancy Sinatra, Link Wray or Duane Eddy, by Lee Hazlewood
Anything by Art Pepper
Anything by Mike Watt
Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro
Best of the Staple Singers
Between Thought and Expression by Lou Reed
Bobbi Gentry's Greatest Hits or Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbi Gentry
Cold Day In Hell by Otis Rush
Compilations from Ike's in Oakland
Dusty in Memphis by Dusty Springfield
Exotic Moods of Les Baxter by Les Baxter
Fromohio by Firehose
Good Vibrations (Boxed Set) and Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Harvest, Harvest Moon, and After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel by Duane Eddy
Hillbilly Deluxe by Dwight Yoakam
The Hit Years or Boots by Nancy Sinatra
King of the Road by Roger Miller
King of the Surf Guitar by Dick Dale
Life & Crimes or Lust for Life by Iggy Pop
Lightnin' Hopkins by Lightnin' Hopkins
Losin' Hand by Al Perry
Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired by Dan Baird
Rumble by Link Wray
Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
Swings and Swings and Swings, or Anything by Buddy Rich
Love those darned GUITARS.
Problem (?): Loves (good) punk, traditional country, sassy stuff and hardcore blues: currently on a "jazz kick" though
Other compulsions: "Anthology" recordings and compilaltions: covers, duets and collaborations; live club recordings and demos, All Music Guide
