We Asked the Unicorn: An Interview with Ed Askew
Categories: Drag City
If you're the type who gets all doe eyed over every young snot who wears a kaftan and sings of freewheeling mysticism like it's some newfangled thing, you better wise up and pay attention to the man who has been the master of all such things in this city for over 40 years, Ed Askew. 
The LP he released on the early Manhattan based indie label ESP-Disk in 1968 entitled Ask the Unicorn went by without a whimper at the time of its release. Later on, it was grasped by a later generation of thread pulling record collectors looking to catch the sparks and connect the dots on all things gloriously arcane that shot out of New York City in the '60s.
The Ed Askew Band plays Cha-Cha's tomorrow night.
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