#GreatAlbums1960s - #CaptainBeefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (1969). Part avant garde song cycle, part field recording, part fractured jam session, Beefheart’s infamous double-LP confounds anyone who approaches it with anything but a totally open mind. For all its weirdness, the music on TMR extends the mission of free jazz into a rock context, with occasional blues gestures (“China Pig” and the spoken “Well”) so you can stuff your brains back into your ears.
Saw some cute crows while I was running around town schlepping furniture, this song just got stuck in my head since then...
Sucks that there are barely any recordings of the Captain and his band performing live😔