Blues & Haikus

Blues & Haikus is the assemblage point for various sleeper cells of outsider artists who work across multiple disciplines, including music, art, and the written word.

Blues & Haikus seeks to explore the notion of a higher Americana, a folk spirit that buoys the continental crust like a spiritual water table fed by a vast network of underground rivers.

This being might be evidenced in everything from ancient cave paintings, primeval myths, and in the strange and violent bewilderment that overtook the increasingly matter-bound denizens of European sea peoples.

We’ve been conditioned to think that everything good about this country can be reduced to one measure: material wealth. That is not the soul of this continent and most of us know that.

From Black Elk to Wendell Berry, let’s get back to the real deal.