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Duke Ellington, Brian Wilson and Friends: Shimmering Prologue: The Lost Sandbox Sessions
by Mike Jurkovic
Picture this: LA: Tuesday, early September, '66. A few months after Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) reshaped the landscape. The weather (pre-climate change) breaks around the mid 70's with a slight breeze sliding in from the east. Mired in an un-stately creative slump, Duke Ellington finds himself being ushered into 6000 Sunset Boulevard (Western Studio 3 for all you folklorists out there) where Beach Boy Brian Wilson (a man who believed his every whim was a twenty-four track master) ...
Continue ReadingGlen Campbell: 1936-2017
by C. Michael Bailey
“Well, that moment has come that we have known was an inevitable certainty and yet stings like a sudden catastrophe. Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American Beatle, the secret link between so many artists and records that we can only marvel, has passed and cannot be replaced -my friend and brother in music, Glen Campbell." Composer Jimmy Webb, Facebook, August 8, 2017 Jimmy Webb and Glenn Campbell had ...
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