Mingering Mike is a legendary soul superstar and an owner of dozen’s of record companies you’ve never heard of. I first came across this legendary soul /funk master artist in an article published in WAXPOETICS , one of my favorite vinyl/music magazines. The art work of Mingering Mike was a fascinating blend of outsider/folk-art sensibility and collector mania spanning four decades. Mike was the Howard Finster/ Henry Darger of record collecting. The work embodied many of the fantasies and projections that occur among devoted music fans and collectors. A recent book, MINGERING MIKE:The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar, collects many of the artworks together with several essays and was published by Princeton Architectural press. (more…)