‘HIS CHORDS ARE LIKE SHEETS OF DIAMOND ICE’: THE BEGUILING PSYCH-FOLK OF LATE CULT SONGWRITER ED ASKEW
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The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes. Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance In a grainy television clip from 1986, a flame-haired and neckerchiefed troubadour plucks away at a lute-like instrument, harmonica under chin, the gentle…
According to Culture | The Guardian, The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes.
The available RSS description adds: Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance In a grainy television clip from 1986, a flame-haired and neckerchiefed troubadour plucks away at a lute-like instrument, harmonica under chin, the gentle…
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- Culture | The Guardian: The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes.
- Culture | The Guardian: Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance In a grainy television clip from 1986, a flame-haired and neckerchiefed troubadour plucks away at a lute-like instrument, harmonica under chin, the gentle…
- Culture | The Guardian: This performance, uploaded to YouTube in 2010, has generated only a handful of comments, but peruse any of them (“Ed the Great!”; “pure gold”) and you begin to understand the passion that Ed Askew – an under-the-radar…
- Culture | The Guardian: “He was living in a world that was for people who didn’t fit in,” Askew’s collaborator, Jerry David DeCicca, says on the free-spiritedness of his friend, whose musical life began with discovering the 10-stringed tiple…
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- 21/07/2026, 11:00 PRIMARY FEED ‘HIS CHORDS ARE LIKE SHEETS OF DIAMOND ICE’: THE BEGUILING PSYCH-FOLK OF LATE CULT SONGWRITER ED ASKEW (Culture | The Guardian • 5 hrs ago) [Story Intel]
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