Our pals at Felony Fidelity just released a new 7" by lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore.
A genuine freak with a startling musical pedigree, Moore began his life-long dedication to home recording after leaving his father's publishing company (Moore's father headed up the legendary Nashville A-Team, a group of producers and session musicians who's playing can be heard on records by Elvis, Patsy Cline and Bob Dylan, among others) and releasing Phonography in 1976. Moore himself was a gifted sideman, but abandoned this potentially lucrative career for the green pastures of New Jersey, where he moved in the late 1970s to polish his weird-pop genius.
Moore worked as an on-air personality at WFMU, and set up the RSM Cassette Club, a cassette-only record label dedicated to releasing Moore's musical output (occasionally stretching as far back as the 1960s). Meanwhile, he continues to record for other labels and collaborate with like-minded musicians including Jad Fair and Terry Burrows.
While many of his releases are officially out of print, cassettes and CDRs ("homemade burns") are available at very reasonable prices from the man himself.
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