Music: Wastin’ Away Again Down in Vacaville
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Outside magazine, November 1995
Music: Wastin’ Away Again Down in Vacaville And the award for the most shameless and unprecedentedly obscene use of the environment for marketing purposes goes to…White Devil Records of Seattle. Along with its recently released CD of recordings made in prison by convicted homicidal celebrity Charles Manson, the company sends this flackery: “A number of tracks display Manson’s concerns for ecological conditions.” Hello? All the songs were taped at Manson’s early-1980s home in California’s Vacaville Medical Facility. His bouncier numbers would evoke Jimmy Buffett, had the Margaritavillean spent more of his beach time in solitary. Manson’s acoustic guitar work, thick with Delta-blues undertones and the only accompaniment to his husky singing, is surprisingly competent. You might put a dollar in |