Bazza

HOMETOWN: Portland, OR
GENRE: Alternative Folk Singer Songwriter
SOUNDS LIKE: Vic Chesnutt, Daniel Johnston, Leonard Cohen

Barry Crawford, known in some circles as Bazza, is one of Portland, Oregon's best kept secrets. His abilities as a crafter of somewhat eccentric songs are renowned in many circles (though hardly enough).

His mysterious, hand-distributed homemade recordings have been the stuff of local legend for over twenty years and a joy for anyone lucky enough to hear them. Not unlike Daniel Johnston or Vic Chesnutt, Bazza's music is typically a slightly off-kilter affair, with enough unconventional quirks to sequester it in a genre eddy far from the mainstream (this, of course, should not be viewed as a bad thing).

Sounding eerily authentic in whatever genre he chooses to explore, his new album for Lost Cat Records, Tremors — which also features a unique take on the 1960's nugget “Secret Agent Man” — is a fine example of Bazza at his very best.

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