S4E189 - Syd Barrett 'The Madcap Laughs' with Corey duBrowa
We discuss Syd Barrett's "The Madcap Laughs", a wonderfully inventive - though at times hard to listen to - document of a gentle artist whose recent ouster from soon-to-be-huge Pink Floyd loomed large.
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PocketCasts A music journalist for two decades with more than a thousand bylines in publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Paste Magazine to GQ, this week's guest Corey duBrowa knows a compelling music story when he hears it. On both a musical and lyrical level, Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett's "The Madcap Laughs" is a wonderfully inventive - though at times hard to listen to - document of a gentle artist whose recent ouster from soon-to-be-huge Pink Floyd loomed large.
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In addition to his all-consuming day gig doing comms for a number of companies you might know, Corey duBrowa was also a music journalist for more than two decades, with more than a thousand bylines for publications ranging from Rolling Stone and Magnet Magazine to No Depression and GQ. (He was also a pandemic-era DJ on the Bay Area community station KXSF-FM via his Thursday evening show BYOB) He'll publish his latest book, "Twelve Tunes From Urban Bohemia: Portland's Musical History in Song" on HoZac in 2027, coming on the heels of his last book, "An Ideal For Living: A Celebration of the EP" which has nearly sold out its second printing. Corey splits time between a ranch in Bend, Oregon and an apartment in NYC with his wife Courteneay and son Tanner, who has carried Corey's music obsession into the digital age.