January 5, 2025

Over the Christmas break I've been building a greenhouse and listening to music, in particular getting reacquainted with R. Stevie Moore. I first found him trawling music collections in Napster (1998 I think would be the year), hearing from people that he was in a similar genre to Ween - another home recordist, DIY pop songwriter when there were few of them - relative to now. He's in a class all by himself though, for the consistent quality of the songcraft. His renderings are so full of character and charm, and he's so damn prolific I am still discovering new things in his discography, which apparently tops out at 400 releases. Give him a chance. He inspires me a ton. I watched a doc on him last night, which is where this clip comes from. "I'm always recording. I have a diary of sound. See, aren't you glad we're rolling tape? It doesn't matter: it captures stuff. And that's been part of my whole thing for years–that's what I want to do.... the tapes are so easy to make. That's what's getting so strange about it. It's too easy for me to write songs and make silly things." Link to the post.