He Didn't Mention His MotherEleanor Friedberger · 2016

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“I recently revisited “Blueberry Boat”, the nine minute Beefheart-by-way-of-book-club suite that the Fiery Furnaces blessed us with during George W. Bush’s first administration. I remembered the song as being deeply weird, but what I didn’t remember was how Eleanor Friedberger’s voice grounded that weirdness. There she was, an eminently reasonable person in a sea of strange, turning the song into s”