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Van Dyke Parks: The Clang of Van Dyke Parks

Penny Valentine, Street Life, 7 February 1976

"He deals in streams of consciousness and clicks someone’s brain on to accepting an abstract concept... he can grab those feelings and wrench them out of you and make you play great stuff, stuff you never played before"
– Lowell George on Van Dyke Parks.

Total word count of piece: 1873

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