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The late producer & Saturday Night Live Sketch Music producer, Hal Willner,  with Lenny Pickett, saxophonist &  musical director of the Saturday Night Live band,   both here mastering Allen’s “The Lion For Real” album at Bearsville Studios, near Woodstock, NY, December 1987. Willner brought together the likes of Bill Frisell, Michael Blair, Mark Bingham, Marc Ribot, Steve Swallow, Gary Windo, Garo Yellin, Rob Wasserman, Arto Lindsay,  G E Smith, & Ralph Carney to pull off one of his truly unique gems that only seems to get better with time.   (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

Hal Willner and Lenny Pickett, Bearsville studios outside Woodstock, NY, December 1987.  Recording session for Allen’s “The Lion for Real” ‘spoken word’ LP that got released on Island/Great Jones two years later. The lineup included some of the most imaginative musicians of the time,  Marc Ribot, Steve Swallow, Bill Frissel, Garo Yellin, Michael Blair, and the late Ralph Carney, backed by the genius of Hal Willner, executive produced by Michael Minzer  (Photo: Allen Ginsberg) #halwillner #lennypickett #greatjones #marcribot #allenginsberg #michaelblair #islandrecords #michaelminzer #thelionforreal #steveswallow #ralphcarney (at Bearsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7UQTXohikd/?igshid=1vketdab4yguz

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