Dec 10, 2015
On today's episode, I talk to painter and
singer-songwriter Ed Askew. Born in Stamford, Connecticut in
1940, Ed left in the early '60s to attend Yale Art School. In 1967,
he moved to New York in the middle of the burgeoning Greenwich
Village folk scene, and met Bernard Stollman, the founder of the
ESP-Disk label, which was dedicated to releasing uncommercial acts,
which included Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman and Ed's own folk
album Ask the Unicorn. With no organized tours
however, and hardly any press support from ESP, Ed’s album soon
descended into hardly-seen-or-heard obscurity status, before
finally finding re-release in the mid-2000s on De Stijl Records.
Since being rediscovered, Ed's past and current work has been
celebrated with Pitchfork and many other high-profile music media
praised his work, labeling him as a NY legend. His latest albums
can be found on Spinning Gold Records, Tin Angel Records as well as
Drag City.
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