Razors In The Clay


It was an honor to guest the other night at the radio show of my friend, gentleman-polymath Shawn Roberts. We turned over the great, heavy rock that is Captain Beefheart and you'll want to see what crawled out from under.

Podcast of Shawn's Beefheart Show

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