Alan Meerow
The final installment of our conversation with SOHF President Todd Rundgren.
AM: You've expressed a disdain for country music, and for almost half a century you've only recorded a single and arguably satiric country influenced song. [Todd chuckles]. What are the music genres that you really like the least, and which the most?
TR: That I like the least?
AM:...
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Month: September 2016
Sitting Down With The President, Part 2
Alan Meerow
The second part of our conversation with Spirit of Harmony Foundation founder and president, Todd Rundgren.
AM: Craft and inspiration seem to be kind of the twins of not just musical creativity, but other kinds of muses. You've talked about how Laura Nyro influenced your early solo work, and she was kind of the catalyst for my rediscovery of your solo music afte...
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Sitting Down With The President, Part 1
Alan Meerow
Despite a schedule from hell, and a bad case of food poisoning, Spirit of Harmony founder and president Todd Rundgren found time to sit down with Music In A Word editor Alan Meerow at the Tyrolean Getaway in Stowe, Vermont for a wide-ranging interview. Here is part one of what will ultimately be three posts for our blog.
AM: In his 2007 book, "Musicophilia," t...
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