St. Paul power trio The Blind Shake was already a pretty good band before it hooked up with Michael Yonkers, the psychedelic guitarist whose long-buried 1968 debut, Microminiature Love, was finally released in 2003 by Sub Pop, giving him a long overdue cult renaissance. The combination of Yonkers and his much younger brethren has been electrifying, both on last year’s Carbohydrates …
Photo of Michael Yonkers courtesy the artist. Note: A shorter version of this interview was published in The A.V. Club’s Twin Cities print edition, August 31, 2007. This version, which appears online here for the first time, was re-edited and expanded in August 2023 with extra material that was too long for the original space …