Although Bennett has been doing readings for years in places like Munich, Paris, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City, this is his first CD release and Vagabond's first venture into audio production. Rug Burn is made up of intense shard rap with musical counterpoint furnished by the hip-hop collective Log Hog. Eighteen steamy, hard-hitting cuts. Quantum leap material. An hour of fine listening.

The performer Seed Verb of Log Hog has this to say about working with Bennett on Rug Burn: "What is remarkable is the ease with which we found an entraining tempo and applied it to these shards. I say "applied" because we began with a collection of shards on tape which Bennett had read acappella. We soon discovered that when a beat at the proper tempo was over-dubbed, the piece suddenly sounded like an ensemble effort, as if Bennett were actually there, reading to the beat. This is due in no small part to the fact that Bennett is an amazingly consistent and rhythmic reader; he has an uncanny sense of the intrinsic pace at which his shards should be read. It was never necessary for us to alter the flow of the vocal track. Some internal clock keeps John Bennett reading to a beat of which he's not even conscious."