The Silent Boatman: In Praise of ParliaFunkadelicMent, Ruth Copeland and George Clinton

I have been wanting to write an article on ParliaFunkadelicMent for a long time. Of course, this week’s offering here could never do justice to the phenomenal output of George Clinton through his various guises, bands, line-ups and projects (far too numerous to mention all the innovative and decorative names here) across the past eight decades (yes, eig…