Hmm I dunno, his songs are hardly conventional, his lyrics often border on the surreal,he didn't really have that wide of a mainstream audience (he was played on BBC 4 late at night and on The John Peel show), he played a harmonium (which places him outside of the norm). I do get what you're saying though
Outsider Music
Cooper Hill
Easton Hughes
Boyd Rice lol
Ethan Watson
Landon Garcia
That's true. And I suppose a lot of the folk and blues performers that Harry Smith etc. recorded became "mainstream" in a sense, but I'd still consider it 'outsider' music. So my definition needs some modifying.
Zachary Martinez
He knows more than four chords, not naive enough
Nolan Cruz
Tiny Tim, especially his 90's albums.
Bentley Gonzalez
these are not hallmarks of outsider music. You want to see some real fuckin outsider shit? check this out pussy
youtube.com
Eli Morris
Actually Tonetta reaches all the same Criteria as I gave. The only difference is that there's a man dancing in his pants, is that what makes it outsider? That seems like an awfully niche definition
Carson Adams
>old degenerate who makes bizarre, low budget videos who is only known because VICE wrote an article about him
>old scottish Reggie Watts who was a regular on BBC, worked with john peel and the beatles
>"outsider"
Andrew Jackson
Thinking that obscurity is what makes something outsider is pretty dumb