German guitarist living in Austin, Texas performs a weird brand of surf-rockabilly-polka music. Truly outsider art at its best.

I suppose you just have to listen, so here's a link to the "official" Herman the German website.

See also: The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

"In any case, how to explain the revved-up version of Hava Nagila that's one of the high spots on Herman's new CD. Surfmeister Teisco Del Rey boasts, in his liner notes, "I was once quoted as saying that if I were made head of Columbia Records, my first act would be to sign Herman The German & Das Cowboy." Well Teisco may not have made it that far, but he obviously has enough pull at Texicalli Records, a division of Finland's Amigo Music named after Danny Young's restaurant, on which his own debut album was released, to finally get Herman's unique sound immortalized in wax (or whatever it is they make CDs out of).... While blistering speed is Herman's most obvious trademark, the truest measure of his virtuosity as a guitarist is that any of the rockabilly or other 50's ("I still play the stuff I heard as a kid") numbers he performs never again sound quite the same if they aren't sung with a heavy German accent." - John Conquest, Music City, Austin, TX

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