We start with the singer, whose name is Inara George and who is the daughter of the late Lowell George, the leader of a band that was, in the early '70s, quite amazing. That band was Little Feat and if you listen to their first three or four albums, you'll be blown away.Lowell's daughter has made a wonderful second album and to do that she enlisted Van Dyke Parks, the great arranger/collaborate...
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the second solo album from inara george , an invitation , is a collaboration with van dyke parks (who helped, among many others, joanna newsom arrange ys. ) and sounds a lot like the early, jon brion-produced (and a.g. endorsed) version of fiona apple's extraordinary machines , in which the almost cabaret light as air bounce of the instrumentation was decidedly at odds with apple's songwritin...
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Assuming -- and this is really giving people the benefit of the doubt here -- that the only reasons not to call Joanna Newsom's Ys a breathtaking work of staggering brilliance (or whatever) are that it's 1) full of 10-minute songs and 2) sung by Joanna Newsom, naysayers are going to have to hear An Invitation . A full-length collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (Newsom orchestrator, Brian Wilson...
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