By: David Smay

As big as Bing, but he died in obscurity.

By: Devin McKinney

Music as volatile as bare wires, as raw as a flayed body.

By: Devin McKinney

He gave an embryonic rock‘n’roll its supernatural cred.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

The exegesis has just begin.

By: Anthony Miller

He asks us to do some deep thinking about music and creativity.

By: Brian Berger

Freed by burnt cork, he became a phenomenon.

By: Brian Berger

He aimed to liberate America aesthetically and socially.

By: Katie Hennessey

For a guy with no sense of humor, he sure is funny.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Arranging and rearranging was his witchcraft.

By: Brian Berger

“Santa Claus Is A Black Man.”

By: Joe Alterio

Everything that ever was, and is now, and ever will be.

By: Devin McKinney

A reach for beauty to the exclusion of the world itself.

By: Brian Berger

An avuncular yet urgent singer-songwriter.

By: Devin McKinney

He gave himself to Tiny Tim, and Tiny gave himself to us.

By: Devin McKinney

An outlaw hero who found mainstream fame.