Charles Douglas: Not Your Kind of Music – The Basement Tapes 1995-1999 – review

(Broken Horse)Seattle-born oddball Charles Douglas took what was, in hindsight, a ludicrously hopeful/deluded lunge at rock stardom in the mid-1990s, bashing out reams of pie-eyed eight-track pop in his parents' Pennsylvania basement in the firm belief he was the new Prince, Jagger or Dylan. He wasn't – but he was on to something, in a silly, super-catchy, pothead-pop kind of way. Somehow he landed a big record deal, and some seriously famous fans – David Bowie, Moe Tucker, Joey Santiago â...

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