Black Coffee Blues is a book written by Henry Rollins, comprising writings penned between 1989 and 1991. It is composed of seven parts; "124 Worlds", "Invisible Woman Blues", "Exhaustion Blues", "Black Coffee Blues", "Monster", "61 Dreams" and "I Know You". It was published in 1992 by 2.13.61 Publications, Rollins' own publishing house.[1]
Rollins would go on to release two other books with the title: Black Coffee Blue Part 2: Do I Come Here Often? (1996) and Black Coffee Blue Part 3: Smile, You're Traveling (2000).
Album
In 1997, it was released as a spoken word double album with author Henry Rollins narrating with acoustic guitar accompaniment by Chris Haskett, guitarist of Rollins Band.
All tracks written by Chris Haskett and Henry Rollins
Disc 1
Black Coffee Blues (Brisbane) 13:05
Black Coffee Blues (Berlin) 9:11
Black Coffee Blues (New York) 9:14
Black Coffee Blues (Geneva) 9:10
Black Coffee Blues (San Francisco) 9:39
Black Coffee Blues (Georgia) 13:48
Disc 2
Invisible Woman Blues 5:01
Monster 20:09
Exhaustion Blues 13:14
I Know You 5:09
Critical reception
PopMatters, "One senses that there is no small amount of self-loathing percolating beneath Rollins’s assured surface, and if you’re looking for a document to support this theory, look no further than Black Coffee Blues."[1]
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