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With his mildly psychedelic, eccentric pop music, R. Stevie Moore could have been part of the same royal line as Van Dyke Parks, Frank Zappa and Kevin Ayers.

Instead he has chosen to record his more than 400 highly varied releases at home and earned a minor (read: way too small) name as the spiritual ancestor of modern DIY artists such as Guided By Voices and Ariel Pink.

Having spent a lifetime as the secret idol of various alternative rock bands, this silver-grey underground legend is finally ready for some spotlight.

R. Stevie Moore is "the godfather of home recording" – an independent, overlooked original whom the zeitgeist is slowly catching up on.

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