Al Berkowitz Band

Al Berkowitz (born c. 1949) is an american modern blues/psychedelic rock cult musician and occasional writer. Born in Temple, TX and raised by a single mother, he developed a unique slide guitar skill by playing either John Fahey and Charlie Patton. He tasted minor local succes in the late seventies with a bunch of low-key rarely obscure folk songs, namely "Naughty shabby Pontiac", "'Round my milestone" and "Bye, bye, you my real me!". He left a few recordings from those days. Deep into poverty and struggling with a heavy drug addiction he relocated in England and then wandered all across Europe. He was reported dead by the new century, but reappeared surprisingly with a poetry book "Our palace in Ergosphere" in 2002. Currently, he's settled down in a little town near Roses (Spain), where he has set up a refreshment stall with his Spanish wife. It seems that he's reassembling the Al Berkowitz Band, as he has arosen as a cult figure for the new wave music scene. His music, with his graspy voice, rare harmonies, if deeply folky, and his cynical distressing lyrics, is meant to be a main influence for people like Nick Cave, Jack Johnson and Alex Kapranos, from Franz Ferdinand.
By 2006, he has recorded an EP "Man in the air" and performs frequently in pubs and around Madrid.
Works Published: - 'Round my Milestone (1972) - Odder Older Ed. (unlisted) - Bye. bye, you my real me!(1976) - Odder Older Ed. (unlisted) - Man in the air (EP)(2006) - Mare Nostrum
Articles in El Siglo XXI, as Ignacio Simón (pseudonym) Poetry Books: - Our palace in ergosphere - Cathedral (2003)