Scott Walker

  • Top 40 Over 40.25: Wise Intelligent

    Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession.  Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig only 8 months apart.  It’s hard to imagine young bands doing that in today’s post-internet crash music economy, let…

  • Top 40 Over 40.8: Scott Walker’s hat trick

    Sometimes pop artists you associate with youth surprise you with a new vocal persona that suits them as they get older.  (Think Robert Plant on Raising Sand.) But in the case of Scott Walker, he never really sounded like a young man to begin with.  Sure, he was a teen idol back in the late…