Charlie McAlister

Charlie McAlister is a visual artist and musician from South Carolina who began releasing art-splattered banjo songs and found-sound collages in the late '80s. By the mid-'90s he had countless cassette-only releases to his name, many issued by his own Flannel Banjo label, but many more released on hopelessly obscure and short-lived tape-only labels. Like his spiritual brothers Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair, McAlister is a pop songwriter at heart. Despite the clatter and noise -- and not to mention the overall inaccessibility and unavailability of many of his releases -- his me...