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RE: How did I not know this existed?

in #music2 years ago

Are you familiar with 'outsider art'? I was reading about it while down in a wikipedia rabbit hole a while back when I discovered the Legendary Stardust Cowboy , his tune Paralyzer is one of my favorite musical oddities. He didn't quite get his full 15 minutes of fame but David Bowie was a fan and apparently got the 'stardust' in Ziggy Stardust from him.

That's a young T-Bone Burnett playing drums on that. They call it psychobilly now but that didn't really exist then but it's something beautiful.

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I have run across that before. It isn't my style, but it is definitely A style! I know there's a lot of outsider art and dada-influenced weirdness out there. Most of it isn't for me. I find this oddly appealing, though: