Homeless Musician Using iTunes to Get Off the Streets
16/07/2011 |
Dred Scott is a homeless musician who plays for passersby at Denver’s open-air 16th Street Mall.
A local producer heard him, recorded his music and launched an album on iTunes to help get Scott off the streets.
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Released July 12, the album is called Live From 16th Street Mall and it offers six tracks of acoustic covers, including a haunting “Wind Cries Mary,” for $3.99. You can see him in action in the video above, performing “Purple...
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