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We mentally note down the moment we meet some people, other’s might leave their first impressions in a piece of writing, a diary entry, a phone number scrawled on a paper handkerchief that was left in the hope of a connection, some might warrant being preserved in a novel; for good, or for ill, the moment we first meet another human soul is the memory it is built upon.
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The concept of confessional poetry isn’t a new one, especially in The United States where it flourished under auspicious talent, weighty hearts and minds that saw the acknowledgment of their craft being greeted as an affirmation of genuine skill and endeavour. As Mike Zito readily admits; his new album with The Wheel, the brutally honest and gorgeous Gone To Texas, is an album in which he pays homage to the Lone Star State, the state that he says saved his life. It might not be in the same vein as poetic luminaries such as Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath or Allen Ginsberg but the sentiment is there, this is a musician shaking his soul loose and willingly, ungrudgingly revealing all.