Today is the birthday of that great musical-poetic iconoclast Van Dyke Parks. Oddly enough, experimentalism and Americana go hand in hand –Â the list of writers, poets, painters and composers who’ve managed to straddle both is surprisingly long. Parks famously tried to steer pop music in that direction with Brian Wilson in the troubled Smile project [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:41AM on January 3, 2013