Frank Kogan

I'm trying not to talk about Matthew Friedberger too much right now because I'm immersed in a project involving him and I don't know if my examples are actually relevent to anyone else, but since a lot of what I said above was implicitly referring to him, might as well bring him out directly. At the Fiery Furnaces' concert at Town Hall here in nyc, he came out for the encore and did one of their songs ("Chris Michaels," I think) exactly in the vocal style of Bob Dylan. It was some combination of hilarious and spooky, because it was dead-on and it worked. The song still totally worked with Dylan cadences. It's like that switch in the Jonathan Richman song "Velvet Underground" that I'm so obsessed with, where he switches from a Jonathan Richman rhythm to a VU rhythm and it's totally revelatory. I'll try and dig it out next week, unless Matthew Perpetua is reading this already and just wants to post it, because I'm pretty sure he has it.