Charlie Tweddle

The later 1960s and early ’70s saw many weirdo singer/songwriters issue hardly distributed albums which were also graced by bare music competence, aswell as some influence from your psychedelic hippie era, even if most of them were based around acoustic folk. Charlie Tweddle’s Fantastic Greatest Strikes was one particular dusty relic, documented in 1971 and pressed within an release of 500 copies in 1974, hand-distributed to minimal product sales. Tweddle belongs compared to that addled college of acid-folk vocalist/songwriters that included, at the best artistic edge of this diving board, Miss Spence, with its, dregs famous brands Wild Guy Fischer. Unlike Spence or Fischer, nevertheless, Tweddle didn’t reap the benefits of fairly high-quality studio room facilities, and far of Fantastic Greatest Strikes sounded as though it might have already been recorded on the quite low-grade portable cassette. Its items, too, sounded not really too much off a number of the lo-fi initiatives that might be distributed through the entire cassette underground in the ’80s, using its rambling, relatively incoherent country-folk tracks doing struggle with sound files like animal sounds, lapping waves, and bomb explosions. To help expand seal its uncommerciality, all eight from the monitors were untitled. Also to however further cover mainstream exposure, the final of these untitled slashes, occupying most of aspect two and clocking in at 22 mins, consisted mainly of chirping crickets, sometimes interrupted or embellished with a little bit of country-folk tune or burst of sound files. Charlie Tweddle had not been some in-joke, but a genuine person, raised within a Kentucky cabin without contemporary conveniences. He performed within a Kansas Town garage music group, the Prophets of Heaven, before getting in Haight-Ashbury for a couple of years. Fantastic Greatest Hits was documented in San Rafael, just a couple kilometers north of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, in 1971, though it required 3 years before he self-released the LP, originally billing it to “Eilrahc Elddewt” (“Charlie Tweddle” spelled backwards). An exceptionally rare item, it had been reissued on Compact disc by Friend in 2004, with the help of six previously unreleased reward tracks documented between 1971 and 1973.