Listen to this song. Would you believe that it isn't McCartney? It's actually Decatur, IL's favorite son Emitt Rhodes, who had a couple of minor hits and then disappeared. The long and interesting story is here.
Luke Singer hipped me to his stuff, and I've managed to BitTorrent his second record, 1971's The American Dream. Great songs, amazing arrangement. He had a song on the soundtrack of The Royal Tenenbaums too - Wes Anderson is cooler than all of us.
The internet hasn't just leveled the playing field between majors and indies, but also between new music and old music - 10 years ago, I never would have been able to find this.....
Emitt Rhodes - "Holly Park"
3 comments:
woah
Emit Rhodes S/T is the best record I've heard in a long long long time. Don't think it's out on CD but if you ever see it...buy it!
So Nillson! So JB! So Gilbert O'Sullivan!
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