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More imaginary liner notes
My imaginary liner notes for the fifth and sixth 45s in Van Dyke Parks’s singles project are now available for your reading pleasure at Bananastan Records.
music  VanDykeParks 
4 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks at the Kennedy Center
Like it says.
music  VanDykeParks 
6 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in St. Louis
Van Dyke Parks played last night at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis with bassist Jim Cooper and percussionist Don Heffington. The three made beautiful music together.
music  VanDykeParks 
6 weeks ago by M.Leddy
VDP on starting out in the arts
“Baring your soul, so that someone else might feel exalted and able.”
music  VanDykeParks 
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy
VDP on time
Van Dyke Parks: “Time is our only common enemy.”
time  VanDykeParks 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
More imaginary liner notes for VDP
My imaginary liner notes for Van Dyke Parks’s latest singles are now available for your reading pleasure at Bananastan Records.
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
VDP fills out the Bullett questionnaire
“Contented, I know that I’m 20 feet from the spotlight, where I’m able to see the stars.”
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Happy birthday, VDP
Van Dyke Parks turns sixty-nine today.
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
That (in)famous line
One line from “Cabin Essence,” words by Van Dyke Parks, music by Brian Wilson.
BrianWilson  music  poetry  VanDykeParks 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
Inara G. and Van Dyke P. in LA
At the Getty Center.
InaraGeorge  music  VanDykeParks 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
The Parks mark
A review of Van Dyke Parks’s Arrangements, Volume 1.
music  VanDykeParks 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
VDP on “Wall Street” and Wall Street
Van Dyke Parks: “The Creed Is Greed, in a nation dominated by stone-age fundamentalism.”
culture  music  VanDykeParks 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
“My children were raised”
I am happy to learn that the verb “raised” in “Heroes and Villains” is okay by Bryan Garner.
BryanGarner  music  VanDykeParks  words 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks’s windshield
Bigger than his rear-view mirror.
music  VanDykeParks 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
VDP: the four ages of an artist
A joke about the rise and fall of careers.
music  VanDykeParks 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Bananastan and I
My imaginary liner notes for Van Dyke Parks’s new 45s are now appearing on the Bananastan website.
music  VanDykeParks 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks, two singles
Imaginary liner notes for Van Dyke Parks’s new recordings.
music  VanDykeParks 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
A cappella Beach Boys covers
Robert Gotshall covers “Our Prayer,” “Gee,” and “Heroes and Villains.” Thirty-three voices, and just about perfect.
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  music  VanDykeParks 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
Bananastan Records
Van Dyke Parks’s label has a website.
music  VanDykeParks 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on Bananastan, cont’d.
Some more details about his forthcoming 7"-vinyl singles. And some observations about age and resilience.
age  music  VanDykeParks 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on Bananastan
“Not every record label has a logo designed by Art Spiegelman.”
art  music  VanDykeParks 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks, “the epic opportunity”
“I have lived through McCarthyism, through riots with race at the core. I have seen dark times, but nothing to match the complacency, materialism, triviality, and Stone Age beliefs that dominate our current state of affairs. So I turn to the epic opportunity — the song form. Songs interest me that much.”
culture  music  VanDykeParks 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks meets Lillian Gish
Quite a story.
film  music  VanDykeParks 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
The Smile Sessions, forthcoming
To be released this year.
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  music  VanDykeParks 
march 2011 by M.Leddy
Recently updated
More details on Van Dyke Parks’s forthcoming single releases.
music  VanDykeParks 
march 2011 by M.Leddy
A new Van Dyke Parks project
Five singles, each a collaboration with a visual artist
music  VanDykeParks 
march 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks at Daytrotter
“From Daytrotter, five performances by Van Dyke Parks with Clare and the Reasons, recorded in Asheville, North Carolina, October 2010.”
Clare  music  Reasons  VanDykeParks 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
Another SMiLE?
“A new release of Beach Boys SMiLE material (with, I trust, excellent remastering) would be a welcome thing, but it’s not as if the music is finally coming out.”
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  VanDykeParks 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on “Orange Crate Art”
On the song's genesis and meanings
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2011 by M.Leddy
A Van Dyke Parks simile
A simile to describe SMiLE
music  simile  VanDykeParks 
december 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks and Clare and the Reasons, on the radio
At the World Café
Clare  Reasons  VanDykeParks 
december 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on arranging and words
Endlessly quotable
music  VanDykeParks  words 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks and Clare and the Reasons, on the radio
On WNYC
music  VanDykeParks 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Brooklyn
Quotable, as always
Brooklyn  music  VanDykeParks 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in The Honeymooners
Van Dyke Parks WAS Tommy Manicotti
Honeymooners  VanDykeParks 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Chicago (2)
VDP and Clare and the Reasons, a report from Chicago
music  VanDykeParks 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Chicago (1)
VDP's calling card
music  VanDykeParks 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on touring
"There may be snow on the roof but a fire rages within."
music  VanDykeParks 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Clare and the Reasons and Van Dyke Parks
A free MP3
music  VanDykeParks  Clare  Reasons 
september 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks, getting things done
A memo that gor results
GTD  music  VanDykeParks  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Song Cycle and "That (In)famous Line"
Richard Henderson's book about Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
music  VanDykeParks 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Barcelona
Playing what I'd say was the set of a lifetime
music  VanDykeParks 
june 2010 by M.Leddy
Easy-listening "Heroes and Villains"
Like it says.
BrianWilson  BeachBoys  music  VanDykeParks 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Canada
At a Mississippi Sheiks tribute
MississippiSheiks  music  VanDykeParks 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
2010: the year of Van Dyke Parks?
VDP is everywhere
music  VanDykeParks 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Recently updated
Od posts with new content: George Eliot, Van Dyke Parks, Francis Poulenc
fiction  music  VanDykeParks 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
"[J]ust like a good flu shot"
Van Dyke Parks on touring
simile  VanDykeParks 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Portland
VDP hits the road
music  VanDykeParks 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks and Ringo Starr
New CD, with a significant VDP contribution
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2010 by M.Leddy
SMiLE, #1
Best-reviewd album of the decade
BrianWilson  VanDykeParks  music 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Dylan, Cooder, Parks
Bob, Ry, Van Dyke, doing Woody Guthrie's "Do Re Mi"
music  VanDykeParks 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in Germany
From Google Translate: "U.S., as well as idiosyncratic."
music  VanDykeParks 
november 2009 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in the Cool Hall of Fame
It's about time!
VanDykeParks 
november 2009 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks down under
From an Australian radio interview
VanDykeParks 
september 2009 by M.Leddy
“A song is an intimation of immortality”
Wisdom from Van Dyke Parks
music  VanDykeParks 
september 2009 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on music
"That's all I do."
music  VanDykeParks 
april 2009 by M.Leddy
On "American music"
Van Dyke Parks quoting Aaron Copland
culture  music  VanDykeParks 
january 2009 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
To be re-released in 2009
VanDykeParks 
november 2008 by M.Leddy
Inara George and Van Dyke Parks on the air
Link to KCRW video clip
InaraGeorge  VanDykeParks  music 
september 2008 by M.Leddy
I dream of Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
In a library, waiting at the water fountain, writing an arrangement
InaraGeorge  music  VanDykeParks 
september 2008 by M.Leddy
Review: Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
Review of An Invitation
InaraGeorge  VanDykeParks 
august 2008 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks on verb tenses
Reverse: the most powerful gear
VanDykeParks 
august 2008 by M.Leddy
A new album from Brian Wilson
That Lucky Old Sun, coming on September 2, 2008
BrianWilson  VanDykeParks  music 
may 2008 by M.Leddy
Happy birthday, Van Dyke Parks
With links to a TV documentary
VanDykeParks 
january 2008 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks and the present tense
From an interview, VDP on Twin Peaks
VanDykeParks 
december 2007 by M.Leddy
A new Van Dyke Parks interview
on creativity
VanDykeParks 
june 2007 by M.Leddy
Happy birthday, Brian Wilson
With a link to a 1966 performance of "Surf's Up"
BrianWilson  VanDykeParks 
june 2007 by M.Leddy
Trumpeter swans in the news
Bonobos naming their swan neighbors
VanDykeParks 
april 2007 by M.Leddy
Riparian
language  words  VanDykeParks 
april 2007 by M.Leddy
Child's play
Childhood and creativity
VanDykeParks  Wordsworth  childhood  children  GerhardTrimpin 
june 2006 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks speaks
excerpt from an interview
VanDykeParks 
march 2006 by M.Leddy
That (In)famous Line
link to an essay on a line from Van Dyke Parks' lyric for "Cabin Essence"
poetry  music  VanDykeParks 
february 2006 by M.Leddy

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