Kansas-born singer-songwriter who founded the Blue Things and recorded the album Grey Life; described in the review as struggling with bipolar disorder and found dead in 1993.

Per the review: founder of the Blue Things, recorded Grey Life (originally intended for voice and acoustic guitar but released with orchestral arrangements by Dot Records), generally regarded as a forgotten/underrated artist with a melancholic songwriting style.

The available review presents Val Stoecklein as a forgotten, tragic-minded singer-songwriter whose album Grey Life is an underrated melancholic folk record. The reviewer praises the songwriting and laments the record's orchestration and lack of recognition. Recommended mainly to lovers of vintage songwriting and melancholy.

For:Fans of vintage 1960s folk, collectors of obscure records, listeners who appreciate melancholic singer-songwriters.

 Val Stoecklein is a forgotten artist, perhaps never considered, “Grey Life” is an underrated work, a collection of folk songs, written for just acoustic guitar and voice as its author wanted, but forced by the record company Dot to endure the orchestral arrangement diktat with the addition of strings and trumpet sections, with the hope that this would make the result more commercially appealing.

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