Recordings listed by recording date, Charles Bukowski works database
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1962 Home recording broadcast on KPFK radio, Los Angeles
2008, CDR - Pacifica Radio - Poetry of Charles Bukowski
1964 Home recording
Sent to the Webbs, publishers of It Catches My Heart In Its Hands, but never released
1966 Home recording
1968, LP - Poetry - Charles Bukowski, Steven Richmond
1977, Double LP - Earth Books - 90 Minutes in Hell
1997, CD - Chinaski Records (bootleg) - 70 Minutes in Hell
1967 Home recording
1972, LP - Cold Turkey - A Cold Turkey Press Special
2006, CD - Cold Turkey - 12 Great Americans
2004, CD - Grey Matter - Poems and Insults
1967 Home recording for At Terror Street and Agony Way reel to reel tape
1968, Open reel tape - Black Sparrow - At Terror Street and Agony Way
1969 Home recording for Beatles Zapple label (never released by Zapple)
1998, Double CD - King Mob - At Terror Street and Agony Way
2004, CD - Black Sparrow - Bukowski Reads His Poetry
1970 Live reading at Bellevue Community College
1988, VHS - Black Sparrow - Bukowski at Bellevue
2004, DVD - Screen Edge - Bukowski at Bellevue
1970 Home recording for Nola Express cassette
1985, Cassette - NOLA Express - Cassette Gazette
1995, CD - Chinaski Records (bootleg) - King of Poets
1972 Live reading at the City Lights Poets Theater in San Francisco
1980, LP - Takoma - Bukowski Reads His Poetry
2004, CD - Takoma - Bukowski Reads His Poetry
2004, CD - Grey Matter - Poems and Insults
1973 Live reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art Poetry Center
2010, Cassette - San Francisco Museum of Art - San Francisco Museum of Art
2010, VHS - San Francisco Museum of Art - San Francisco Museum of Art
1974 Live reading at the Underwater Poetry Festival in Salt Lake City
2007, CD - The Temple/Litmus - Underwater Poetry Festival
1974 Studio recording at MCCC-TV (Macomb County Community College), Warren, MI
1976, LP - Dial-A-Poem - Totally Corrupt, The Dial-A-Poem Poets
1977 Live reading at Baudelaire's in Santa Barbara
2007, mp3 (not commercially released) - Baudelaire's Reading
1978 Live reading in Hamburg, Germany
1978, LP - Zweitausendeins - Hello. It's good to be back.
1991, Flexi-disc included with Beat Scene Magazine #12
2004, CD - Chinaski Records (bootleg) - Solid Citizen
2008, CD - Zweitausendeins - Hello. It's good to be back.
2015, (not commercially released) - Thomas Schmitt film, 1978 Hamburg reading
1979 Live reading at the Viking Inn, Vancouver
2008, DVD - Monday Media - There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here
2010, DVD - Monday Media - One Tough Mother, Disc 1: There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here
1980 Final live reading at the Sweetwater in Redondo Beach, CA
1982, LP - Freeway Records - Voices of the Angels
1983, LP - Freeway Records - English As A Second Language
1984, LP - Freeway Records - Neighborhood Rhythms
1985, LP - Rhino - Hostage
1994, CD - Rhino - Hostage
2008, DVD - Monday Media - The Last Straw
2010, DVD - Monday Media - One Tough Mother, Disc 2: The Last Straw
1985 Short film interviews and readings for Barbet Schroeder
1987, VHS - Lagoon Video - The Charles Bukowski Tapes
2006, DVD - Barrel - The Charles Bukowski Tapes
1986 Interview and reading for Movable Feast #3
1986, Cassette - In Our Time Arts Media - Movable Feast #3
1992 Home video recording
2003, DVD - Magnolia Pictures - Born Into This
1992 Home recording/interview for Run With the Hunted audio book
1993, Cassette - Caedmon Audio - Run with the Hunted
2000, Double CD - Caedmon Audio - Charles Bukowski: Uncensored
2019, LP - Harper Audio - Charles Bukowski: Uncensored
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