Ed Askew - The Final Painting

Time stands stunningly still on The Final Paint ing, the dreamy, elegiac final album from leg endary underground singer-songwriter/poet/ painter Ed Askew. Ed started his singing career in 1968 with a self-titled LP release on NYC’s infamous free jazz/free-folk ESP-Disk' label. Known today as Ask the Unicorn, this album is wintry psych folk of the highest order, with Ed’s yearning lyrics and high-strung vocals fully emoting over the bright, mandolin-like strum of his chosen axe, the South American tiple. The record caused a flare of acclaim, but after a second album went unreleased, Ed went back home to Connecticut, where, quietly and locally, he taught art, painted (houses AND paintings) and made music. Upon returning to New York in the early ‘80s, he began cir culating cassettes of his self-recorded new songs. This was a fascinating and unlikely new chapter in his music, but only a few noticed. It wasn’t until De Stijl’s 2002 release of Little Eyes, his lost second album, that his naïve songs and singing began to receive the respect they deserved. It was just enough visibility to dream a bit bigger.

1. Winter Song
2. Bacon & Eggs
3. Long Night
4. Lost In The Kitchen
5. A Train Is A Thought
6. Gray Air-o-plane
7. Someone
8. Tough Guys
9. Nightingale

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