Sor Capanna (Man with Guitar)

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In his 1981 book Harry Jackson, the artist tells the story of Sor Capanna: “In 1958 and ’59 I went to Rome a lot, and there I met a big, likable American named Remington Olmsted, who had just started a restaurant in the Trastevere section called Da Meo Patacca. He and I loved to sing cowboy songs while Italian street musicians supplied the background. It was a very unusual but sympathetic musical marriage—we were all really doing the same thing. Remy then commissioned me in 1961 to do a statue of the great street singer and poet Sor Capanna, who was a hero of the poor people of Trastevere. He sang about his people and their whole history until his death in 1923. Naturally, the Establishment hated him. He spent most of his life in and out of jail. He was a man after my own heart, both as a poet who sang his own verses, and as an outlaw. In both respects he is the same breed as the artist and the cowboy, for whom ‘goin’ to jail is just one of the hazards of goin’ to town.’”

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