{"id":3477,"date":"2013-01-03T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2013-01-03T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:06:26","slug":"happy-birthday-van-dyke-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/happy-birthday-van-dyke-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Van Dyke Parks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owing to the distractions of the holiday season, today&#8217;s scheduled blog entry isn&#8217;t quite ready. So while I finish it, I invite you to celebrate the 70<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of acclaimed songwriter \/ arranger \/ producer <strong>Van Dyke Parks<\/strong> by reading a pair of interviews I did with him. (Parks, of course, is perhaps most well-known &#8212; somewhat to his chagrin &#8212; as <strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong>&#8216;s collaborator on the Great Lost [and found] Album of the 1960s, The <strong>Beach Boys<\/strong>&#8216; <em>SMiLE<\/em>. But there&#8217;s so, so so much more to him than that.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/vdp_card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=642\">first feature\/interview<\/a> is from late 2011 and took place over coffee here in Asheville NC. The second was a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=2906\">\u201c20 Questions\u201d format piece<\/a> done in 2012 for <em>Shindig! Magazine<\/em>. Parks is one of my favorite interview subjects; he&#8217;s endlessly quotable, quite a raconteur, and possessed of some of the drollest wit since <strong>Mark Twain<\/strong>. I mean, just look at his calling card (pictured above), for goodness&#8217; sake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owing to the distractions of the holiday season, today&#8217;s scheduled blog entry isn&#8217;t quite ready. So while I finish it, I invite you to celebrate the 70th birthday of acclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[2306],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-interview","tag-van-dyke-parks","cat-6-id","cat-41-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}