Coming very soon – Neville’s affectionate revisiting of the doo-wop music he grew up with. If you appreciate doo-wop then you’ll love Zappa’s self-penned tribute to doo-wop though of course it being Zappa it has a bit of gentle naughtiness. Aaron, Don and Keef, the latter turned me onto the Neville Brothers in ’81. Read…
I’m doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state Remembering one of the great American one-offs who died on this day. Here is a documentary about Don and last but no means least two recordings that best show off his salty voice. Willie the Pimp Muffin Man Captain BeefheartFrank ZappaMagic BandTrout Mask ReplicaVan…
Ed Feser has another terrific earlier posting on Steely Dan (I recently brought attention to this one). Ed engages with Roger Scruton’s analysis of “popular” music. In older musical traditions, the focus was on the music itself, which had only a contingent relationship to the performer even when the performer was the one who composed it .…
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