Double Dutch: An Appreciation of David Byrne (Features)
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His Luaka Bop label was the bridge between Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music and Ry Cooder’s Buena Vista Social Club. His early dance music collections show up on all the cool kids’ iPods. He helped make Alison Krauss and Robert Plant pitchable, let alone profitable.
DATELINE: July 31, 2029 -- “International song stylist, band leader, and impresario David Byrne passed away quietly in his sleep last night. He was 77 years old.” Let’s go out To the place Where the hands of time are slowed Where no one walks No one dies No more hassles anymore I know the other tributes we’ll see are going to focus on the man’s aesthetic contributions. First with Talking Heads: the CBGB orthodoxy that says, “Talking Heads were the NYC art students that gave punk its brains” (the story in which Patti Smith is The Tin Man and The…
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