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Andy Fordyce's avatar

His early stuff is certainly in the tradition of American songwriting, but it’s an evolution of that style, not a pastiche, imho. Ol’ 55, Tom Traubert’s Blues, Burma Shave, Grapefruit Moon, Kentucky Avenue, The Ghosts of Saturday Night are all close to magnificent. There used to be a fabulous compilation of the best of the early albums called Asylum Years which I bought very shortly after Swordfishtrombones. Those albums were my ‘way in’!

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Mackenzie O'Brien's avatar

This is such a fun weekly feature idea - so excited for future publications!

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