Sublime

I remember once, when I was a kid, hearing Johnny Winter singing “Tired of Tryin’ ” with Muddy Waters on guitar, on the Nothin’ but the Blues album, and hearing him sing and liking what I heard and then looking at a picture of him on the album and double-taking, maybe triple-taking, and then wondering what it meant to be black (or white, or albino)

Byrne is also the author of an astute book titled How Music Works,

Every label employed at least one person whose sole duty was to liaise with MTV. Kiss their ass. Beg them to play their videos. Lavish them with decadence.

evanescence.