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Lou Reed dives deep into Edgar Allen Poe's dark world.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20030204
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Byline: Greg Kot

Lou Reed's new album of Edgar Allan Poe interpretations, "The Raven" (Sire/Reprise), is a match made in purgatory. Genius comes in many shades, and Reed and Poe paint it black.

The pairing was initially the brainchild of Reed's co-producer, Hal Wilner, who has been putting on annual Halloween shows in New York and Los Angeles. For the 1995 show, he enlisted Reed to read Poe's macabre short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," and the singer was hooked. He had read Poe as a young man, but now he understood Poe from the perspective of an adult. He could see Poe not ...

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