Nipper’s Cool Holiday Gift Suggestion #13

GIFT: “He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes”
AVAILABLE FROM: Tompkins Square
COST: $25

Nominated for a Grammy in the Best Historical Album category, “He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes” is a combo package featuring a 16-song CD and 50-page book about the blind, Texas-born, gospel-boogie singer-pianist of the 1920s. The book was researched and written by former Nippertonian Michael Corcoran, one of Albany’s best and controversial music writers during the early ’80s, when he published The Albany Lark – a short-lived humor, music, pop culture ‘zine – and also wrote for some of the Local 518’s more respectable publications.

MORE OF NIPPER’S COOL HOLIDAY GIFT SUGGESTIONS:
Theremin Mini Kit
Moonshine Marshmallows
Edgar Allan Poe Lunch Box
“Joseph Cornell’s Manual of Marvels”
The Residents’ “Ultimate Box Set”
Ice Cream Sandwich Bench
Campus Queen Lunch Box
Jim Rua’s “Cafe Capriccio’s Chef’s Table”
The Obscure Giants of Acoustic Guitar trading card set
Peleg Design’s ZipMark
Shakespearean Insult Gum
Seth Kaufman’s “The King of Pain”