well, I'm partial to his early work with Aimee Mann and some recent work with Robyn Hitchcock and Rhett Miller (of the Old 97s), but I expect you'd especially dig Rufus Wainwright's eponymous album.
dude has also done a bunch of crazy eno-esque session work that somehow ended up with the artist sounding completely different than they ever sounded before. there's a long list of his session work here. it includes Marianne Faithful, Elliott Smith, the Finn brothers, Crystal Method, Lisa Marie Presley (I swear to god), Peter Gabriel, Mary Lou Lord, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Taj Mahal...a whole bunch of others. some of them just credit him with "additional production" or "guitar" or something on one or two tracks (a la Genesis's Lamb Lies Down on Broadway crediting Eno with simply "enossification").
he does this weekly cabaret-style thing at a club called Largo in LA (I think he owns or co-owns, but may be mistaken) where many of the names mentioned above randomly show up and do these freeeeeeeaky improv jams together, or where he just plays by himself and does things like opening up a piano and using a guitar pick to pluck out, harp-style...oh...I dunno...John Cale's Fear is a Man's Best Friend intercut with random samples from Purple Haze, a Day in the Life, and...oh...hell maybe the Ballad of the Green Berets or something, all with one hand while simultaneously playing a weird droney thing on some sort of synth pedals and reaching over every 10 seconds or so to lay down some other layer of freaky fucking electronic percussion. and singing along.
I don't think that particular combination ever took place, but it's entirely typical.
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dude has also done a bunch of crazy eno-esque session work that somehow ended up with the artist sounding completely different than they ever sounded before. there's a long list of his session work here. it includes Marianne Faithful, Elliott Smith, the Finn brothers, Crystal Method, Lisa Marie Presley (I swear to god), Peter Gabriel, Mary Lou Lord, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Taj Mahal...a whole bunch of others. some of them just credit him with "additional production" or "guitar" or something on one or two tracks (a la Genesis's Lamb Lies Down on Broadway crediting Eno with simply "enossification").
he does this weekly cabaret-style thing at a club called Largo in LA (I think he owns or co-owns, but may be mistaken) where many of the names mentioned above randomly show up and do these freeeeeeeaky improv jams together, or where he just plays by himself and does things like opening up a piano and using a guitar pick to pluck out, harp-style...oh...I dunno...John Cale's Fear is a Man's Best Friend intercut with random samples from Purple Haze, a Day in the Life, and...oh...hell maybe the Ballad of the Green Berets or something, all with one hand while simultaneously playing a weird droney thing on some sort of synth pedals and reaching over every 10 seconds or so to lay down some other layer of freaky fucking electronic percussion. and singing along.
I don't think that particular combination ever took place, but it's entirely typical.