Published
Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 18:20
- David Byrne's label will issue a collection of music by the San Francisco outsider in October.
My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt is out on Luaka Bop on October 16th.
The New York label, which recently popularized the work of forward-thinking Nigerian musician William Onyeabor, looks stateside for its next project. In the late '80s, Doug Hream Blunt saw a advertisement for a class on "How To Start A Band" stapled to a telephone pole in Golden Gate Park. He'd go on to learn guitar from a drummer named Victor, eventually pressing up an LP called Gentle Persuasion as well as an EP called Big Top. These records would languish in the "local" section of Bay Area record stores, but Blunt's unstudied, outsider-pop sound went on to develop a cult following which now includes Ariel Pink, Luaka Bop founder David Byrne, Dam-Funk and Dean Blunt, whose stage name is a tribute to the obscure songwriter.
Blunt would occasionally appear on a public access show called City Visions. Watch a video of Bream and his band playing "Ride The Tiger" below.
Tracklist
01. Fly Guy
02. Gentle Pursasion
03. Whiskey Man
04. Break Free
05. Ride The Tiger
06. Caribbean Queen
07. Big Top
08. Trek
09. Love Land
10. Fly Guy (Instrumental)
Luaka Bop will release My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt on October 16th, 2015.