This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Among the bits of advice that Don Van Vliet, in the guise of his ...

Don van Vliet was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1941. How much does a Don van Vliet cost? Don van Vliet's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized ...

Don Van Vliet, an artist of protean creativity who was known as Captain Beefheart during his days as an influential rock musician and who later led a reclusive life as a painter, died Friday. He ...

Don Van Vliet, Rock's 'Captain Beefheart,' Dies : The Record Though he never sold many albums, Beefheart influenced generations of musicians who followed.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Longtime Captain Beefheart guitarist-manager Gary Lucas will present ...

Don Van Vliet was born on January 15, 1941, in Glendale, Calif. He spent his teen years in Lancaster, a dusty town in the Mojave Desert that offered little in the way of music or culture.

'Trout Mask Replica' is the most Beefheartian album that the singer himself, Don Van Vliet, ever made. - Credit: Ed Caraeff/Getty Images Released 50 years ago, on June 16th, 1969, Trout Mask ...

After all, the subject is Don Van Vliet, who once exploded blues and rock idioms as rock surrealist Captain Beefheart. Then in the early 1980s, tired of the music business, ...

Thanks also to Jan Van Vliet, who helped me prepare for the reading, and for sending me a poem Don had written for me in 2001, called ‘Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,’ which I read at the end of ...