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While I have a great love for all of his records, I think the one that really changed me -- and my personal favorite, though I recognize it's not his "Best" -- is ICE CREAM FOR CROW. Hearing the song "1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole" and wondering how the fuck musicians could remember to play that many notes (it wasn't improvised in the least). Hearing the title track and truly falling in love with the sound of the slide guitar for the first time. The off-kilter drumming, the thumping bass, the guitars clashing/colliding/playing together and apart at the same time... Don's brilliant, beautiful poetry... truly amazing. I think the Magic Band -- the various incarnations of it, I mean -- was always the best band ever; no one "stood out", in a sense, because all of them were amazing musicians. I have a particular soft spot for the LICK MY DECALS OFF era, with Ed Marimba's.. uh.. marimba playing. Long sections of marimba/bass/guitar endlessly playing the same notes. Beautiful.
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