VIKING OF SIXTH AVENUE 05/19/2017 balancing a boulder on his

balancing a boulder on his hands and legs

Arranger: Steve Mac

short snippets of tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe's free jazz screeching

Tennessee and Moody Blue

but no matter how many empires have risen and fallen around them

VIKING OF SIXTH AVENUE 05/19/2017 balancing a boulder on hisLouis Thomas Hardin, better known by his pen name, Moondog, was a blind street musician, poet, and denizen of New York City's streets during the mid 20th century. Noted for his outlandish Norse inspired costumes and use of odd, homemade instrumentation, Moondog's idiosyncrasies sometimes served to overshadow his very real and important contributions to modern American music. THE VIKING OF 6TH AVENUE, a compilation spanning the composer's entire