One is that their music should be treated like a freak show, and either appreciated for that reason (if you’re someone who gets their entertainment from someone else’s suffering) or disdained (if you don’t want to do that). There are several mutually incompatible assumptions about creative artists who have mental health problems. It also erases talent, especially in the case of mentally ill artists. The problem with the term is that it erases these differences, and that it assumes that the most interesting thing about the music is the person behind it. It’s a term that gets applied to anyone eccentric, whether someone like Jandek who releases his own albums through mail order and just does his own thing, or someone like Hasil Adkins who made wild rockabilly music, or an entertainer like Tiny Tim who had a bizarre but consistent view of showbusiness, or a band like the Shaggs who were just plain incompetent, or people like Wesley Willis or Wild Man Fischer who had serious mental health problems. There’s a term that often gets used about some musicians, “outsider music”, and it’s a term that I’m somewhat uncomfortable with. Just a note before I begin, this episode deals with mental illness and with the methods, close to torture, used to treat it in the middle of the last century, so anyone for whom that’s a delicate subject may want to skip this one. If you like the sound of these episodes, then go to /andrewhickey and subscribe for as little as a dollar a month or ten dollars a year to get access to all those bonus episodes, plus new ones as they appear. These are short, ten- to twenty-minute bonus podcasts which get posted to Patreon for my paying backers every time I post a new main episode - there are well over a hundred of these in the archive now. Every day this week, I’ll be posting old Patreon bonus episodes of the podcast which will have this short intro. This episode is part of Pledge Week 2022. Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on July 16, 2022

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