title: Blues and Haikus
text: # Blues and Haikus
  
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  Blues and Haikus is the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's second album and was released in 1959.
  
  ## History
  
  On the album, Kerouac's poetry readings are accompanied by jazz saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. The album is included in the CD box set The Jack Kerouac Collection.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side One
  
  * "American Haikus" – 10:01
  * "Hard Hearted Old Farmer" – 2:13
  * "The Last Hotel/Some of the Dharma" – 3:49
  
  ### Side Two
  
  * "Poems from the Unpublished Book of Blues" – 14:05
  
  ### Bonus Tracks on 1990 CD issue
  
  (Outtakes from the Blues and Haikus recording sessions)
  
  * "Old Western Movies" - 6:42
  * "Conclusion of the Railroad Earth" - 10:05
  