Ben Vaughn - Mono USA

Who knew that artists as disparate as Fred Neil, The Ventures, and Alan Vega were actually spiritual kinNULL Ben Vaughn knew all along and he proved it on this album of covers. Vaughn has always been part musicologist, and he probably thumbed through a record collection the size of two rooms to rescue the songs (and in some instances, the artists themselves) featured on Mono Usa from the gutters of rock history in which they had lay forgotten. The album was a labor of love, collecting four years worth of eight-track home recordings from Vaughn's basement studio, each of them lovingly recorded in mono ("It was good enough for Phil Spector and Brian Wilson...," the liners intone) with Vaughn playing all the instruments himself. Read More