i've just woken up,Rip van Winkle style,after 6 weeks
in a parallel universe,out of touch with you good
people on the forum. Anyway,saw something on here
about Daniel Johnston + a TW connection from a past
post...there's a book called Songs In The Key Of Z(the
Curious World Of Outsider Music)by Irwin Chusid.Not
only is it one of the best music books ever written,it
contains chapters on many artists whom Waits
particularly rates,including the aforementioned
Johnston,Shooby Taylor("the human horn" - TW is a
massive fan of this guy), Harry Partch and the sublime
Captain Beefheart.Johnston,like several others
featured in the book,is deranged and deluded and makes
music to match.I've got the 2 accompanying cds from
the book and can vouch for its mental-ness.You gotta
read it,it's brilliantly written.For those who live
around Glasgow,Borders Books were doing copies for
about 15 quid.Plenty of TW namechecks
throughout,too.Well,see you all on the next Waits tour
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