Maggot Brain Issue 12The cover feature celebrates the enduring, luminous genius of DOLLY PARTON, with a revealing conversation between Caryn Rose and Lynn Melnick on how her music quite literally saved Melnicks life. ALSO IN THE ISSUE: OCTAVIA BUTLER The very full transcript of editor Mike McGonigals lengthy, in depth talk with the sci fi feminist visionary, from 1997. The entire transcript has never appeared in print. ROLIN POWERS The great Michelle Dove on what makes

a nearly nine-minute epic powered by piano and electric twelve-string guitar

backed by ‰Û÷Vernal Equinox‰۪

Dif Juz label mate Richard Thomas guested on tabla and saxophone

but this 15-track collection captures her rare singles for the Reprise label with the vocal groups The Blossoms and The Wildcats

and Brandon Still

Interlude 4 B6

” sounds eerie and aque- ous

parallel one

The band‰۪s singular guitar-based pop sound is ltered though pattern based ideas that slowly morph the linear into the modal

like an abandoned Victorian home

back-in-the-day listeners and new fans will both find much to enjoy

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