Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Whilst we are on the Subject........
Thought i'd recommend the most fascinating site I think i've ever come across on the internet.
Show and Tell Music is a gallery of the most Obscure, (and that's a Capital O), recordings and Artwork unearthed from American Dimestores by someone with a real obsession for the aforementioned...
Higlights for me are Little Ralph, the 9yr old precher who must be heard to be believed; Baby LuLu - I don't know where to begin here; and the Christian Astronauts in outer space.
The site covers all sorts of Subjects, but the Christian Galleries have a major interest to me. Kind of everything that Flannery O'Connor would have warned us about and celebrated too.
Although the initial response is 'How Bizarre - this cannot be serious!', I found this site also suggests something very powerful about the naivité, fragility, and conviction of the artists involved. Maybe they truly 'come to me as little children'.
Laugh, (and then ponder...)


