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DOWNLOAD: Clare & the Reasons w/ Van Dyke Parks - "He Needs Me" (Harry Nilsson cover) (MP3)
...remarkably, until now Parks had never toured.Van Dyke Parks' rare tour with Clare and the Reasons, which passed through Pop Montreal and Philly, and is now over, brought him to The Bell House in Brooklyn on Saturday (10/2), More pictures from that show, and some videos, below..."I've had some incredible recognition for a person who has always really treasured the blessings of anonymity. But this is the first tour," Parks says on the phone from a tour stop in Grand Rapids, Mich. "Why now? Because I'm 67. 'If not now, when?' is the question I would ask. And 'Why not?' is the next one. Because it's there!"
Opening for Parks [on the tour] is the Brooklyn chamber-pop band Clare and the Reasons, who lured the Los Angeles resident to the road. Clare is Clare Muldaur Manchon, daughter of folksinger Geoff Muldaur, whom Parks knew in the '60s, and some of the Reasons' string section will back Parks during his set.
Clare and the Reasons, according to Parks, are part of a new crop of "young moderns," artists who have "no fear of trying to acknowledge that music can still have a street sensibility and appear in a parlor. That hyphenate of plain and fancy, that's where I've found a lot of fieldwork in my life."
Parks has several projects in the works, and the tour is a prelude. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Clare & The Reasons
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Van Dyke Parks "The Attic" in Brooklyn. October 2, 2010.
Van Dyke Parks "The All Golden" in Brooklyn. October 2, 2010.
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the nilsson "cover" you posted is great. but it's not really a "cover" because van dyke parks arranged the music for that song. "he needs me" is vdp's as much as it's harry's.
http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/1980/07/popeye-1980.html
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Posted by alex | October 5, 2010 11:59 AM
Does anyone have the mp3's for the rest of the show?
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 12:22 PM
This show was delightful!
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 12:59 PM
Clare & The Reasons were incredible. Stole the show in my opinion. I knew nothing of them but became an instant convert.
VDP was great too.
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 1:05 PM
true dat. saw them open for vic chesnutt last year and they were great. bought both albums right away. i think they are from montreal and not brooklyn...?
Posted by Anonymehous | October 5, 2010 1:13 PM
I love this guy
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 1:21 PM
Hope he tours again.
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 1:24 PM
^ 1:13: Based in Brooklyn. He's French, she's from M's Vineyard.
Posted by donn | October 5, 2010 1:56 PM
i love song cycle. what else should i hvae by this guy (i know the brian wilson projects too)
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 4:11 PM
^Discover America
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 4:14 PM
Clare & the Reasons are excellent. Blew curmudgeonly VDP off the stage if you ask me.
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2010 6:30 PM
anyone have a setlist for clare and the reasons that night? i cruised their albums looking for a song they played that set, but couldn't find it. no- it wasn't the genesis cover or the olive oyl cover...
Posted by Tip | October 5, 2010 6:31 PM
Clare and the Reasons were off the chart great, the arrangements and her singing were stellar, as was the songwriting. Van Dyke was amazing as well, what a legend, what a way with words. why can't we have more music nights like that in NY, so rare.
Posted by lisa | October 6, 2010 10:04 AM
Oh, and some of the songs clare and the reasons played were:
You Got Time
Ooh You Hurt Me So
This Is The Story
Mellifera
Our Team Is Grand
He Needs Me
That's All (Genesis)
Pluton
Pluto
Posted by lisa | October 6, 2010 10:07 AM
i loved how without a singular percussionist, clare and the reasons were able to have such a tight rhythm throughout... such a unique sound.
Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 10:13 AM