My cousin, Tom Fredrickson, is a great writer, one of the very best I’ve had the good fortune to have known. He can write with laser exactitude on any subject. He has a new blog, http://lostwaxmethod.com/, which allows him to share his considerable music knowledge with the world. Today he writes about a Beach Boys rarity and does a great job with it. Tom is the sort of music scholar who tells the truth. He can adore the Beach Boys yet still admit that not every Wilson tune was perfect. Such candor and fidelity to artistic ideal is sorely missed from pop culture writing and delineates the major difference between scholarship and publicity. Go Tom!
