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The (Perhaps Deservedly) Lost Recordings Of Burt Sikorski, DBA The Burt Sugar Trio
Every town and city has its share of genuine characters and eccentrics, but I think you could say that it's somewhat easier to get a real feel for the personalities of such characters in a smaller town, where there are so few public secrets and mysteries, and where what might be mere sidewalk spectacle in a big city is often fleshed out with well-known family histories and personal anecdotes from actual encounters and conversations.
True oddballs also seem to appear in even starker relief when looked at against the largely homogenized backdrop of an average midwestern small town.
