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the subdudes

Post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin once said, “In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.” But it was Thomas Edison who really hit the heart of creativity. When asked by a Harper’s journalist in 1934 what laboratory rules Edison wanted him to observe, Edison bristled, “Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish somep’n!” The subdudes surely qualify for mastery under Gauguin’s definition. They took their collective musical heritage of raucous Louisiana roots rock, shook it up in a gris-gris bag...  read more