This weekend, recovering from a pretty amazingly intense root canal (I learned my lesson - ask for the gas. Always. No matter what the dentist says. Get knocked out) my girlfriend set me up with this amazing list of totally bizarre material on Wikipedia (true stuff, as far as wikipedia goes, but bizarre nonetheless). After reading plenty of things about some micronations, and some disappearing colonies, and raining animals (including space jelly), I came upon an article on Florence Foster Jenkins. I wouldn't call her the first "outsider" musician, but she is certainly one of the first whose performances were recorded and still exist today.

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