Beck: The Slack and Bright Minstrel
John Harris, New Musical Express, 26 November 1994
In the boho East Village cafes he listened to Woody Guthrie's back catalogue and shouted along to his acoustic guitar. But that was before 'Loser' ignited a nation of plaid-shirted American youth and accidentally made BECK 'that slacker generation guy' with the big bucks record contract. JOHN HARRIS rubs thrift store-jacketed shoulders with the world's most reluctant cultural godhead.
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