2018-09-20
15 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Last week, Netflix released the fifth season of BoJack Horseman.
In the opening credits of the first episode of season five,
as the theme song plays, there's a shot of BoJack in the foreground,
and in the background, on a TV,
there's a drawing of a man with a saxophone, and the dates 1956 to 2017.
It's a memorial tribute.
The man in the drawing is Ralph Carney,
who co-wrote the theme song along with his nephew, Patrick Carney, of the Black Keys.
I spoke with both of them in 2016 for the Song Exploder episode about the making of the theme song.
But in December of 2017, Ralph Carney passed away suddenly.
Here's Patrick.
Losing Ralph's been really hard for me.
He was one of my biggest inspirations.
When it came to music, he always encouraged me ever since I was a teenager.
I know that he would be happy to know that people are interested in this song,
and I encourage you to look deeper into Ralph's catalog,
including the songs that he made with Tom Waits on records like Rain Dogs, Meal Variations,