Doug Hream Blunt

Doug Hream Blunt is an American musician and songwriter about whom little is known. His lone album, Gentle Persuasion, was self-recorded and released somewhere between 1998 and 2000 -- he isn't certain of the date -- and commanded ridiculously high sums from record collectors in the ensuing decades. His lo-fi yet smooth, hypnotic, laid-back funk sound is widely compared to music by Ariel Pink and Dâm-Funk. Blunt was born in Arkansas but moved to San Francisco at the age of seven and lived all over California before returning to the Bay area. An avid record collector, he cite...