By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Of Course You Are “Promo Brunette” is a fascinating specimen of a Robert Pollard song to dissect. It consists almost entirely of verses, each of which begins the same and ends differently. It’s almost as if Pollard had a chord progression laid out for a verse but couldn’t decide how […]
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Little Pigs
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Of Course You Are The demo version of “Little Pigs” is on Suitcase Four: Captain Kangaroo Won The War with the title “I Can Never Let You Win.” This version lets you clearly hear Robert Pollard’s use of open string drone riffs in the song. For the version recorded for […]
I Can Illustrate
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Of Course You Are Back when I tabbed out Ricked Wicky tune “Map And Key” for this website, I shied away from attempting to transcribe Nick Mitchell’s excellent guitar solo, despite it being one of my favorite guitar parts from any Robert Pollard-related project. For “I Can Illustrate,” I took […]
