Will's Canon of Influences Countdown - #9

I was just thinking that a nice entry or series of entries for the blog might be a list of some of the records that have inspired the project directly or indirectly. Maybe we could each do a top ten!

9.   Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis

A lot of my initial thoughts about the story of Arthur White were based on the story of Shuggie Otis, who made albums that signal a million ways that music could have gone in the early 70's that nobody ever heard because he couldn't work on the timelines of record companies. Shortly after I pulled from Shuggie Otis, the Rodriguez documentary came out, then there was a flood of them--the one on The Monks, the one on Roky Erickson, the one on Death, the one on Big Star, even the one on Father Yod and the Source Family. Now we're working within an actual genre of alternative history rock and roll!

Thank you, Netflix.