Altadena's inimitable Ian Whitcomb is profiled in this month's Arroyo magazine. For us, the money quote:
“The best of the old songs are the best of Western music, because they
have the basics of music: melody, harmony and rhythm,” Whitcomb says.
“Those songs are the culmination of 400 years of Western civilization.
And in this age of looping and rapping — really just circular rhythms
and changing textures — they’re far more interesting to me.”
