Who Is Your Favorite Outsider Musician?

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Outsider music is music performed either by social outsiders, who have no or few associates in the mainstream music business, or by musicians who choose to live and work in seclusion, often due to compromising behavioral or psychological conditions. Outsider music reflects these conditions in various ways. Lyrics are often bizarre or emotionally stark and songs may show a great ignorance or disregard for structural conventions or popular trends in mainstream music. Also, outsider musicians frequently have no formal training and/or significant music skills in the traditional sense. The end result is music that is much stranger and more abrasive than more popular musical styles. Outsider music is a form of outsider art.

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Wesley Willis

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Tom Fahy

Prolific, seclusive, multi-instrumentalists, Tom Fahy and his so-called Hemloch Quintet have recorded over 80 albums. Oddly enoug... [show more]

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Tom Waits

This guy is a courageous creative! Also Lhasa De Sela http://www.last.fm/music/Lhasa http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story... [show more]

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Luie Luie

One man orchestra and inventor of "The Touchy."

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The Space Lady

Legendary San Francisco busker, clad in her Mercury helmet. Plays keyboard and accordion. And holy shit, she has a myspace page: ... [show more]

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R. Stevie Moore

Titled as the first home-recorder and recorded more than 300 albums in various genres! A big influence for today's "new weird amer... [show more]

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Jack Bruce

lives for his music, but far from mainstream with most of his work

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Pan

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Harry Perry

this guy is always around the Venice Beach boardwalk, delivering little private shred sessions for tips.

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Silvano Togneri

Silvano Togneri outsider musician from Barga Tuscany Italy Images and many many MP3's are here: http://barganews.com/daily/silv... [show more]

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Peter Grudzien

_Peter Grudzien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_
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Tom Lehrer

My idol! Here's a site that has the lyrics to his songs: http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/tomlehrer3903.html

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Eilert Pilarm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Pilarm A Swedish Elvis impersonator known for his utter lack of resemblance to Elvis Presley.... [show more]

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This topic was started by holotone holotone has 44,144 Grupie Points on December 27th, 2006. 45 grupies have voted on one or more of the 22 answers.

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