"He put me in this little bathroom closet that was the size of just the toilet - you couldn't move - and made me listen to this track called 'Red Cross Store' by Mississipi John Hurt over and over and over for three hours. I'd come out and say, 'I've got to eat, I'm starving,' and he said, 'No, you've got to hear it more.' He'd go, 'No, you've got to hear it more. You haven't heard it yet.'
Captain Beefheart, The Biography by Mike Barnes, p.226