Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Safe as Milk LP
Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than his efforts that followed in the late '60s -- which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his later more avant-garde outings.
Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than his efforts that followed in the late '60s -- which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his later more avant-garde outings.
Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than his efforts that followed in the late '60s -- which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his later more avant-garde outings.
