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Willis Earl Beal, LondonThe life of an "outsider artist" is genuinely lived on a knife edge. If things go well, you could find yourself like Willis Earl Beal, signed to a quality UK label such as XL. If they don't, you remain a homeless person, shouting. No one's saying Willis Earl Beal is crazy, but the Chicagoan has certainly conducted his young life so far in a fairly eccentric, even movie-worthy (Mos Def is said to be developing a film) kind of way. For Beal, his way to reach out to the worl...

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