Editing Captain Beefheart (section)

==Musical style==
Captain Beefheart was a pioneer of [[art rock]]<ref name="Winner"/> and [[experimental rock]].<ref name="Winner"/><ref name=WalesOnline>{{cite web |title=Experimental rock pioneer Captain Beefheart dies |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/world-news/experimental-rock-pioneer-captain-beefheart-1881078 |website=Wales Online |date=December 18, 2010 |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> His music has been cited as an influence on [[punk rock]], [[post-punk]] and [[new wave music]],<ref name=WalesOnline/> and he has been classified as a [[proto-punk]] musician.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The reign of Captain Beefheart and how he changed rock music forever|magazine=[[Far Out Magazine]]|date=January 2021|first=Drew|last=Wardle}}</ref>

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote that "The crucial problem in Beefheart’s career has been that few people have ever been able to accept him for what he is, a [[blues]] and [[rock music|rock]] musician".<ref name="Winner"/> His management referred to him as "potentially the greatest white blues singer of all time",<ref name=Winner/> while a combination of managers, musicians, fans and critics felt that he should have either sung more clearly and softly, made more commercial music or played "blues songs that people could understand and dance to".<ref name=Winner/> He adapted to, and pushed the boundaries of, genres throughout his career.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/beginners-guide-weird-world-captain-beefheart-211210|title=A beginner's guide to the weird world of Captain Beefheart|website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=6 November 2014|publisher=|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> According to ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', his music "drew on [[blues]], [[jazz]], [[psychedelic music|psychedelia]], and a thousand other subgenres".<ref name=EW>{{cite web|first=Simon|last=Vozick-Levinson|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2010/12/17/captain-beefheart-dies|title=Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|publisher=[[Meredith Corporation]]|location=New York City|date=December 17, 2010|access-date=September 29, 2016}}</ref> ''The Independent'' described his music as a fusion of [[rhythm and blues]] and avant-garde jazz.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/captain-beefheart-influential-singer-who-brought-the-avant-garde-to-rock-music-before-forging-a-successful-career-as-a-painter-2164747.html?amp | title=Captain Beefheart: Influential singer who brought the avant garde to | website=[[Independent.co.uk]] | date=December 20, 2010 }}</ref> ''Far Out'' magazine said that his "combination of jazz, blues and [[psychedelic rock]]" defied categorization, and as a result of his difficult to place style, many simply referred to it as [[avant-garde music|avant-garde]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leathman |first1=Jonathan |title=Captain Beefheart, the child sculpting prodigy: the story of a supremely gifted artist |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/captain-beefheart-child-sculpting-prodigy/ |website=Far Out |date=July 13, 2022 |access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=McKenna |first1=Christine |title=A Crossover of a Different Color : Once known as avant-garde musician Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet has quickly won the art world's attention as a painter |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-29-ca-1321-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=July 29, 1990 |access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref> According to ''Rolling Stone'', "Beefheart’s brand of abrasive [[blues rock|blues-rock]] was truly a novelty to young listeners in 1964".<ref name=Winner/> ''Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America'' included him among the prominent [[progressive rock]] musicians of the 1960s and '70s.<ref name="tawa">Tawa, Nicholas E. ''Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America'' (Lanham, MA: Scarecrow Press, 2005), {{ISBN|0-8108-5295-0}}, pp. 249–50.</ref>

[[John Parish]] described Captain Beefheart's music as a "combination of raw blues and abstract jazz. There was humour in there, but you could tell that it wasn't [intended as] a joke. I felt that there was a depth to what he did that very few other rock artists have managed to achieve."<ref name=MOGTv>{{cite web |url=http://mog.com/mogtv/pj_harvey_john_parish_1 |title=MOGTv: PJ Harvey & John Parish on Neil Young, Captain Beefheart |work=Mog.com |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606233958/http://mog.com/mogtv/pj_harvey_john_parish_1 |archive-date=June 6, 2009 }}</ref> A ''Rolling Stone'' biography described his work as "a sort of modern [[chamber music]] for rock bands, since he plans every note and teaches the band their parts by ear."<ref name="rollingstone.com"/> The ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' describes Beefheart's songs as conveying a "deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and the belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings".<ref name="Encyclopædia Britannica">{{cite web| url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/94323/Captain-Beefheart|title=Captain Beefheart at the Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=February 16, 2010}}</ref> [[Dr. Demento|Barret Hansen]], in a review of ''Strictly Personal'', described the singer as "the only white voice that has come close to capturing what [[Charley Patton]] and [[Son House]] are all about".<ref name=RS>{{cite magazine |last=Hansen |first=Barret |author-link=Dr. Demento |date=December 7, 1968 |title=Records |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/strictly-personal-19681207 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301112627/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/strictly-personal-19681207 |archive-date=2014-03-01  |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |location=San Francisco |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |access-date=August 14, 2014 }}</ref>