The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into his soundscape. That’s why it’s equally surprising and totally believable that at the very start of the '90s he recorded a rap song,

Wilson and Beach Boys manager Fred Vail started work on their country album 'Cows in the Pasture' over 50 years ago. In 2025, the project is finally due to come out -- but Wilson didn't live to see it.

“When I was around 10 or 12 years old,” Brian Wilson said, “my mom and I were walking to the market one day and a dog started barking at us. When I asked my mom, ‘Why is that dog barking at us?’ she said, ‘Son, some dogs pick up vibrations from some people, and when they pick up bad vibrations, they bark.’ And I said, ‘What about good vibrations?’”

The musical world lost a giant with news Wednesday that Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader, had died. He was 82. Attempting to distill Wilson's talent and