{"id":149881,"date":"2020-09-14T05:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=149881"},"modified":"2020-09-14T06:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T10:28:20","slug":"music-monday-blue-bell-to-bish-bosch-engel-to-walker-by-brendan-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=149881","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Blue Bell to Bish Bosch: Engel to Walker, by Brendan O’Malley"},"content":{"rendered":"

My talented brother Brendan O’Malley is an amazing writer and actor. He’s wonderful in the recent You & Me<\/i>, directed by Alexander Baack. (I interviewed Baack about the film here<\/a>.) His most recent gig was story editor\/writer on the hit series Survivor’s Remorse<\/i>. Brendan hasn’t blogged in years, but the “content” (dreaded word) is so good I asked if I could import some of it to my blog. I just wrapped up posting his 50 Best Albums<\/a>. But I figured I’d keep “Music Monday” going with more of the stuff Bren wrote about music.<\/p>\n

Bren’s writing is part music-critique, part memoir, part cultural snapshot. Many of these pieces were written a decade ago, so I am happy to share it with you!<\/p>\n

Here is the first in a lengthy series of essays Brendan wrote on Scott Walker.<\/em><\/p>\n

Blue Bell to Bish Bosch: Engel to Walker<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n

In 1958, a teenager from Hamilton, Ohio named Noel Scott Engel arrived in Los Angeles to pursue pop stardom. He cut 20 tracks or so for the tiny Orbit label and achieved regional success with the single “Blue Bell”.<\/p>\n

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