IIRC, credit was given to Los Lobos and the African musicians who wrote the music of the various tracks retroactively.

Stop picking on Nathan Rabin!

I'll definitely keep an eye out. I will watch music docos all the live-long day!

Thanks for the correction (sincerely). It's been a while since I'd read about the Graceland sessions, and the extent of the theft has apparently built up in my mind over the years. Part of it might just be my serious distaste for Paul Simon.

It should also be mentioned that Paul Simon basically took a lot of the music for Graceland from them without giving them credit.

If we all had the same tastes, this site (and the world) would be boring…hell, I love Richard Thompson's You?Me?Us?, which seems to be the one all his fans really hate…and most people blame it on the Blake/Froom production!!

More for the rest of us!

Colossal Head is a fantastic album. I listen to it quite a bit, even all these years after its release. Something about that balance of traditional with the experimental….Tchad Blake and Mitchell Froom aren't always the best production team (see: Costello, Brutal Youth; Thompson, Mirror Blue…both albums have some…

Speaking of monkeys at typewriters….

Got it from MS clip art.

Yeah. Shows them.

Jevs.

That sweet Lavrel Canyon sound.

You or they would have no way of telling who is or isn't part of the group you find so icky. Why's it matter?

Those people who really bug you? Naggers?

That…doesn't even answer the question.

When do politics come up when you're in the crowd at a show? Would you even know if the guy next to you wanted to Make America Great Again?

Yah, I complain about what's in this feature a lot, but this is actually really nice.

Awright! Mrs. HR and I discussed some different flavors, but decided to play safe for this crowd. Even scallions might have been too exotic….

Ah! Okay, I had a reading fail…I was just out in the sun for a walk….