"Moonlight on Vermont" is a song by Captain Beefheart. It was released on his 1969 album Trout Mask Replica. The song, along with "Sugar 'n Spikes", was written around December 1967. The song is one of the most famous from Trout Mask Replica. It was also one of the songs from this era that Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band performed live. "Moonlight on Vermont" was also released on the live album I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978. Pitchfork thought the band on that version "folds the cuttingly arrhyth… read more
"Moonlight on Vermont" is a song by Captain Beefheart. It was released on his 1969 album Trout Mask Replica. The song, along with "Sug… read more
"Moonlight on Vermont" is a song by Captain Beefheart. It was released on his 1969 album Trout Mask Replica. The song, along with "Sugar 'n Spikes", was written … read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band were an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band's musical direction was tightly controlled by Don Van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who subjected the band to intense regimes of rehearsal; this tension combined with poor salary contributing to the br… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band were an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melod… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band were an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic,… read more