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Given birth to Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was among contemporary music’s true innovators. Who owns an extraordinary four-and-a-half-octave vocal range, he utilized idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist lyrics, and an unholy alliance of free of charge jazz, Delta blues, latter-day traditional music, and rock and roll & roll to make a singular …

An accomplished maker, solo designer, and pedal steel guitarist, Ben Keith got his start like a Nashville program musician through the past due ’50s. 2 decades later on, he secured an area with Neil Young’s music group, where he added to such landmark albums as Harvest, Tonight’s the night time, …