The Song We Can't Get Out of Our Heads

Wondering what the Emerson Brothers sound like after reading last week's feature, 'The Long, Twisting Tale of Two Farm Boys Who Finally Got Their Big Break'? Check out their hit, 'Baby,' and more.

Nov 16, 2024

If you read last week’s feature, “The Long, Twisting Tale of Two Farm Boys Who Finally Got Their Big Break” by Steven Kurutz, a repub from the Creative Nonfiction/True Story archive, you, like us, might have wondered what their standout track, “Baby” sounded like. Plus, did you know that Kurutz’s story inspired a film called Dreamin’ Wild that came out in 2022? If you thought about going down this rabbit hole after reading the story but haven’t done it yet, we’ve got you…

Check out the song that Kurutz describes as “blue-eyed soul.”

The trailer for the film Dreamin’ Wild.

And, of course, the story if you haven’t read it yet.

NRLY x CNF

The Long, Twisting Tale of Two Farm Boys Who Finally Got Their Big Break

Steven Kurutz

November 9, 2024

The Long, Twisting Tale of Two Farm Boys Who Finally Got Their Big Break

Some years back, an unusual and astonishing album began circulating among record collectors and fans of lo-fi music. Will Louviere was one of the first to hear it. A Bay Area vinyl dealer, Louviere is an authority on private-press LPs from the 1960s and 1970s—records self-produced and released by amateur musicians and destined, in most cases, for the bins of thrift stores and flea markets. In a year, Louviere and his fellow collectors between them might buy one thousand of these obscure albums. Of those, maybe ten would be artistically interesting. Maybe one would astonish.

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