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| + | Outsider blues musician invented by artist, actor, composer, podcaster John Lurie for the 1999 album ''The Legendary Marvin Pontiac* – Greatest Hits''. He followed it up in 2017 with another release, ''Marvin Pontiac: The Asylum Tapes''. | ||
| + | Lurie wrote Pontiac as a hipster's musical archaeological wet dream: outsider, person of color, troubled genius, went insane, never heard of but yet left a bunch of recorded material. | ||
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| + | He was born in Mali in 1932, and killed by a bus in Detroit in 1977. | ||
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| + | Real musicians on the album include: John Medeski, Billy Martin, G. Calvin Weston, Marc Ribot, and Tony Scherr. Lurie is a real saxophonist with band [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lounge_Lizards The Lounge Lizards]. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/john-lurie-emerges-out-of-nowhere-with-some-strikingly-resonant-fake-music | *https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/john-lurie-emerges-out-of-nowhere-with-some-strikingly-resonant-fake-music | ||
*https://www.discogs.com/artist/993646-Marvin-Pontiac | *https://www.discogs.com/artist/993646-Marvin-Pontiac | ||
| + | *https://riotfest.org/2018/04/john-lurie-marvin-pontiac-reissue/ | ||
| − | [[Category:1999]] | + | [[Category:1999|Pontiac, Marvin]] |
| + | [[Category:Albums|Pontiac, Marvin]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Blues|Pontiac, Marvin]] | ||
Revision as of 07:32, 24 October 2018
Outsider blues musician invented by artist, actor, composer, podcaster John Lurie for the 1999 album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac* – Greatest Hits. He followed it up in 2017 with another release, Marvin Pontiac: The Asylum Tapes.
Lurie wrote Pontiac as a hipster's musical archaeological wet dream: outsider, person of color, troubled genius, went insane, never heard of but yet left a bunch of recorded material.
He was born in Mali in 1932, and killed by a bus in Detroit in 1977.
Real musicians on the album include: John Medeski, Billy Martin, G. Calvin Weston, Marc Ribot, and Tony Scherr. Lurie is a real saxophonist with band The Lounge Lizards.
