Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: Captain Beefheart

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• Label: Revenant >>
• Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental

Born Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was one of modern musics true innovators.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band set rock on its ear from 1965 until 1982, when leader Don Van Vliet retired from music. Engineering a mutant strain of musical DNA (tuff-ass garage punk R-n-B, extraterrestrial field hollers, austere "classical" miniatures, loping sea shanties, scorched-earth delta blues, free-blowing skronk, fat-bottom groove and post-everything clangor all found their way into the soup) CB&HMB are now regarded as one of the most original and consistently compelling bands ever waxed.