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A ‘Dachau’ song so shocking and transformative, there’s nothing else like it

JL;DR SUMMARY Captain Beefheart’s 1968 song "Dachau Blues" is highlighted by author Gary Lucas as perhaps the most powerful musical evocation of the Holocaust ever crafted. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish MusicHolocaustEmotional ResponseShockEvocationCaptain BeefheartDachau BluesDon Van VlietGary LucasHeinrich Von Kleist

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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
"While an undergrad at Yale in the early 1970s, a fellow student friend of mine played this song to a very sensitive intellectual Jewish woman he was dating."
New York City, New York, United States
"Some years later a good friend here in the West Village wanted to rid himself of a pair of bossy roommates who were back from a European sojourn and intent on taking over and muscling him out of his own apartment."

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