Subject: Van Dyke Parks

• Out There

  November 23, 1995

• Who's that girl?

  July 4, 1996

• Brian Wilson, reconstructed

  July 16, 1998

• Maybe he's doing it wrong

  November 5, 1998

• The music man

  December 10, 1998

• Roasting Chesnutt

  December 17, 1998

• Listen up

  December 24, 1998

• Who's there?

  January 28, 1999

• Silverchair

  August 15, 2002

• The Minus 5

  February 20, 2003

• Department of Eagles

  In Ear Park (4AD)

  October 16, 2008

• Wild Bill

  July 31, 2008

• Half Lit

  Richard Swift takes a Novelist approach to the singer-songwriter genre

  June 15, 2006

• Joanna Newsom

  Ys (Drag City)

  November 23, 2006

• St.Vincent, The Theater Fire, Peter and the Wolf

  Thursday, June 29, at the Double Wide

  June 29, 2006

• Inara George

  Monday, September 19, at Trees

  September 15, 2005

• Vic Chesnutt

  Thursday, June 30, at AllGood Café

  June 30, 2005

• Matthew Sweet

  Living Things (Superdeformed/RCAM)

  November 4, 2004

• Reason to Smile

  After battling mental illness and hit-or-miss records, Brian Wilson is back with a lost classic

  October 7, 2004

• The Thrills

  Let's Bottle Bohemia (Virgin)

  September 16, 2004

• Brian Wilson

  Gettin' in Over My Head (Rhino)

  June 17, 2004

• Last of the Neon Cowboys

  Jason Ringenberg keeps one foot in the honky tonk, with or without the Scorchers

  January 18, 2001

• Drink Deep

  Known as much for multiple sclerosis as for songwriting, Victoria Williams finds Water to Drink under the desert sun

  August 24, 2000

• The forever frown

  More than 30 years later, Smile remains the subject of so much mystery

  December 16, 1999

• In spite of his ignorance

  Van Dyke Parks, the eternal odd man out, finally comes out to play

  December 19, 1996

• Who gives a Hootie?

  Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

  December 28, 1995