Artist description The "Charles Bukowski" of Country Music. Virtuoso guitarist and singer in Country and Rock styles.

Music Style Tacky Hick Country-Rock

Musical Influences The Kendalls, Captain Beefheart, Cluster, Jethro Tull, The Browns, Oscar Levant, Mickey & Sylvia, Frank Zappa, Dave

Similar Artists George Jones meets the Status Quo , with Joe Meek at the boards.

Artist History Self-taught on guitar at age 4; played along with Beatles and Beach Boys records to learn riffs; former member of Pepper Pine and The Pool People; Hermetic existence since world crashed and burned in 1980. See diatribe below.

Group Members Louie Easley Hanley

Instruments Rickenbacker electric guitar, Fender electric bass, Lowery organ, piano, tape manipulation, vocals, Jack Daniel's No. 7

Albums Unexploded Airplanes, Agonizing Ecstasy, No Snowballing. Singles: Seran/Daphsehr, At Her Revival/Ord

Press Reviews "Sounds like drug music to me.." JOEL LIBMAN, GAY TRAVEL NEWS "This is not music. Ravel's 'Bolero'..THAT'S music!" ELEANOR TUCKER, THE PENNYSAVER "Louie Hanley is no Eagles, but he's all right." JIM BURROWS, SMOKER'S ALLIANCE NEWSLETTER "Louie is really sick.." DAWNA BRADFORD, Mp3 ARTIST "..His guitar playing is stellar, but his repetitive and suicidal songs are not easy to take..." LINDA HAWN, THE ENTERTAINER "It may be the best pair of shoes in town, but it's not my size" DEJAN B. MARKOVICH, M.D., S.C. "The performance is somewhat sloppy, but there is no doubt that Louie is a genius. This music really is high art!" PETER STERN, Sound Choice

Additional Info I, to this day, cannot actually determine whether 1980 was an exhilarating transformation or a numbed and instant termination of my life, possibly throwing what was left of me into a cosmic Lost and Found. During certain times in past years, when I lay down to rest, I have these intense visions of a few different places that are just perfect. They are so perfect that it is painful not to be there when I get up. I am awake when I experience these scenes though I must be still and quiet or they blow away like feathers. Every now and then there are spools [recordings] or books that cause this perception. In the cases where these perceptions are precipitated by spools or books (or sometimes objects and situations), the feeling does not blow away like feathers and can sometimes become a fixture for several days. At the time of these awarenesses, it feels as if though everything is perfectly clear and bathed in cosmic light. A fleeting perception of the ultimate connectedness between distant concepts and situations presents itself like a road map of the realms beyond. There are bees. Big fuzzy buzzy ones. When I try to grab one, it is like finding a bloody 1979 penny in my pocket and getting sucked through the time vortex back to this bright bowdlerized wasteland. The stuff on these tracks is all just practice and experimentation with new things I bought in 1980, but in this case, the only reason that I bought all the crap was because I had to express the imagery pertaining to what was happening to me on the

Location Lafayette, Indiana - USA

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