Ben Collier
Reels, Rags, & Relics

​What a great, entertaining tape Ben Collier has put together here. It's that "lazy afternoon on the back porch" kind of songs. Well known tunes like Candyman (the only one I recognized) and own songs, recorded in a very lofi one-man-band manner and in different styles.

He's opening with "Crowley Waltz", a piece that could come straight from Dust to Digital's latest release "Arkansas at 78 RPM" and then he moves on to a fine fingerstyle piece called "Putneyville Strut", that rural americana kind of stuff. With Egg Basket he suddenly turns to the more contemporary lofi folk style that reminded me a lot on early Simon Joyner (or all those other guys and gals who recorded songs in their bedrooms on a 4-track)

Ben Collier grows veggies over the summer on a farm in Pennsylvenia and everything here is hand made. Not the cassette tape, though but the cover artwork and of course his music.

Download it for free or write him a mail to get a tape. Thanks to my friend Lukas Read who was recommending this to me!

His studio:

(via When Woman are Scarce - True West Historical Society)

Photos are taken from The Past Is A Grotesque Animal tumblr blog