Van Dyke Parks

简介：基本内容：歌手：Van Dyke Parks 语言：英语流派：Pop 发行时间：1998-02-10 唱片公司：华纳国际音乐专辑简介 Parks has always been a moonlighter, producing albums by Little Feat and Randy Newman, writing arrangements for U2 and Victoria Williams, and composing film scores. He´s also recorded half a dozen albums on his own, but he´s spent most of his career in the shadow of an early failed collaboration: his work as lyricist for Brian Wilson´s epic ´60s disaster, Smile. Moonlighting, a live recording taken from a 1996 performance, places him in the spotlight´s full glare. There may be a 17-piece band behind him, but Parks sings (by his own admission badly) and plays piano throughout, displaying the personality a bitter environmentalist one moment, and then self-assured professor the next-that drives the album. Though he´s lived in California since the ´60s, Parks was born in Mississippi and even without the drawl he remains a Southerner. That he´s a sentimentalist is evident in the Br´er Rabbit-inspired "Jump!" and "Hominy Grove," but he also has an intellectual´s appreciation for the past. Occasionally, this leads him astray; listen to his stilted version of Uncle Dave Macon´s old folk tune, "C-H-I-C-K-E-N." More often it feels right, especially on a lovely orchestral remake of John Hartford´s "Delta Queen Waltz" and a pair of instrumentals inspired by the 19th-century New Orleans composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Moonlighting is a welcome anachronism, with its star reading a Robert Frost poem, singing a song about FDR´s trip to the Caribbean before cruiseships, and reinventing Little Feat´s "Sailin´ Shoes" as a slide-guitar-and-strings art song. Between songs, Parks admits, "This isn´t a franchise operation, folks." Thank God for that, not to mention Parks´s thin voice and slightly misshapen heart. <br/>

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