{"id":16546,"date":"2013-03-11T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=16546"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:11:24","slug":"articles_kevin-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16546","title":{"rendered":"Articles by Brian Kevin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hes-able.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-65622\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hes-able.jpeg\" alt=\"he's able\" width=\"160\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Songs Primarily in the Key of Life,&#8221; <strong>Brian Kevin<\/strong>&#8216;s work on the Peoples Temple record album <em>He\u2019s Able<\/em>, was his MFA thesis in creative nonfiction at the University of Montana. It was also published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Brian-Kevin-2010.pdf\"><em>Colorado Review<\/em><\/a> (Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2010, 68-101) and was later selected as one of the year&#8217;s Notable Essays in <em>Best American Essays 2011<\/em>. Brian may be reached at <a href=\"mailto:brikevin@gmail.com\">brikevin@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A special section on the <em>He&#8217;s Able<\/em> album from the 2009 edition of <em>the jonestown report<\/em> appears <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30925\">here<\/a>. The album may be played in its entirety through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sVdAgfLxCus&amp;playnext=1&amp;list=PLF47145DB14320567&amp;feature=results_main\">YouTube link<\/a>, which opens to the album&#8217;s first song, &#8220;Welcome,&#8221; and which continues by using the &#8220;Autoplay&#8221; function above the song titles, in the upper right hand corner of the panel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30209\">Taking the Needle Off <em>He\u2019s Able<\/em><\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30825\">Songs (Largely) in the Key of Life<\/a> (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30826\"><em>He\u2019s Able<\/em>: An After Word<\/a> (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31333\">Gift-Wrapped Stories and the Smooth Sounds of Melvin Johnson <\/a>(2008)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33137\">Of Thumbtacks and Timelines<\/a> (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":16576,"menu_order":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16546"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133754,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16546\/revisions\/133754"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}