Skin & Bones: SONG LYRICS

From the publisher: Named for a lyric from his album Jeff Mellin Saves the World (Stereorrific, 1999), the book covers songs from Mellin's bare-bones coffeehouse days to his later power-pop material. With photographs by rock photographer John Soares.

• Paperback: 91 pages

• Publisher: Kolourmeim Press / Stereorrific Recordings / Big Blue Ox (May 1, 2009)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0615181260

• ISBN-13: 978-0615181264

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces

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“While it's often difficult to gauge the worth of pop lyrics printed on the page without musical accompaniment, it's remarkable how well SKIN & BONES reads, as lyrics in the poetic sense, Jeff's lyrics considered as poetry at their best evoke the only-just stylistically-belated, yet entirely individual and intense poems of Weldon Kees; even at their least effective, they have the readable lightness of Edward Arlington Robinson, and everyone knows Paul Simon made ‘Richard Corey’ a better song than it ever was a poem, which illustrates my point nicely.”

— Garrett Caples