Track Lounge: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
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There’s something comforting about hearing castanets on a recording by Bryan Ferry – the unabashedly British post-modern rock crooner/sophisticate/poseur, and a true original. Castanets. That sort of unlikely, but terribly continental touch is almost expected from the man who brought the tuxedo and brilliantine slicked-back hair to progressive art-rock. Way back in 1973, castanets popped up in the arrangement of “Do the Strand” - the tongue-in-cheek dance number that kic... MORE
