Jeffrey Lewis WORKS BY TULI KUPFERBERG (1923-2010) 3/19/13 Akiyoshi had to battle for

Akiyoshi had to battle for acceptance on many fronts

Released: 8/12/03

urgent strings and a staggeringly good vocal performance make this a real highlight amongst an album of highlights

and significant moments of her life through songs

perhaps enough for four men

Jeffrey Lewis WORKS BY TULI KUPFERBERG (1923-2010) 3/19/13 Akiyoshi had to battle forThis recent album I've recorded, is all covers of Tuli (Fugs) Kupferberg songs. Tuli died in 2010, and every year since then I've organized an annual tribute concert in which I pick an assortment of Tuli songs and I assemble a band of musicians to play with me (sometimes including Peter Stampfel, appropriate 'cuz he was in the original Fugs lineup with Tuli in 1965). Each year I tell myself I'll get around to making a proper recording of some of these