DFW & TRP

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Wed May 21 08:29:12 CDT 1997


PdiF sez:

> 
> 
> Can we obtain some insights into the difference between DFW &
> TRP via musical analogy?  TRP is, to me, equivalent to Neil Young.
> A homegrown rare bird, instantly recognizable in all his works,
> by turns melancholy, angry and frivolous.  And as when Young
> was chided at the "We Are the World" recording sessions for
> singing "off-key," and replied "Off-key?  That's my whole style!",
> we can only be grateful for TRP's eccentricities and "shallowness"
> and refusal to "write nicely".
> Meanwhile, DFW is Counting Crows.

TRP  (Charles Mingus)(George Jones)

DFW  (KennyG) (Garf Brooks)

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net 
  "I want the frimfram sauce with the orson-fay
         and chifaffa on the side...."




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