"The Smile Sessions"

The Beach Boys’ “The Smile Sessions” received unanimous critical acclaim upon its release in 2011; the box set version of it winning for Best Historical Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. Our Melodies & Memories, Saturday (January 11th) feature of “The Strange & The Extraordinary” will take its playlist from these tracks, originally recorded between February 1966 through May 1967. The album’s compilers involved Brian Wilson in decisions regarding its sequencing…