Music List

One Is Not The Loneliest Number: One-Man Bands

By Jim Allen

It's not enough to be a control freak with unshakeable ideas about every aspect of a song's arrangement, if you want to have a one-man band, you need the chops to cover all those parts yourself. These are the artists who turned singlemindedness and solitary studio confinement into musical virtues.

CRITICAL LIST

Prince

Soft and Wet

Todd Rundgren

Compassion

Stevie Wonder

Love Having You Around

Sufjan Stevens

O Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head!

Roy Wood

Nancy Sing Me A Song

Emitt Rhodes

Fresh As A Daisy

R. Stevie Moore

I Want You In My Life

Fad Gadget

Ricky's Hand

The The

Uncertain Smile

East River Pipe

Beautiful Worn-Out Love

Panda Bear

Person Pitch

Solex

Have You No Shame, Girl?