The Songcraft of Don McLean
In 1970, America loved AMERICAN PIE.
He rose from the ranks of the late 1960s folk scene to top America’s pop charts in the early 1970s with an obscure, nine-minute musical treatise on the history of popular music since the death of Buddy Holly and a love epistle to a schizophrenic painter. Learn more about singer-songwriter Don McLean in this episode of NOTES.
