NP: Another Wanda

[Steve Maas]

The article includes samples of his letters. Steve Maas

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The Morning News
The Indignant Correspondence of Folksy Ken Oakley
Kevin Guilfoile, 3 July 2003

[excerpts]

"Twenty-five years ago, music industry executives were touting Folksy Ken 
Oakley as the next Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. In 1978, however, when Arista 
finally released Oakley’s debut album after an unexplained delay, Utica 
Skyline was universally derided by critics who, for the first time ever, 
used words like ‘miasmal’ and ‘flagitious’ to describe a musician’s 
fretwork.

"A sensitive man, Oakley responded to every review with a personal letter. 
Allegorical, novella-length, paranoid, and non-sensical, Ken’s vitriolic 
broadsides became so prized by music magazines they began reviewing Oakley 
records that didn’t exist just to provoke an irate response from the singer. 
"

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/the_indignant_correspondence_of_folksy_ken_oakley.shtml

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