Val Stöecklein is tagged as: orchestral pop, singer-songwriter, folk rock, 1960s, singer/songwriter SAD AND GONE The Story of Val Stoecklein’s Grey Life, the Best Album You Never Heard By Keven McAlester Eleven years ago, the lonely life of Valerian Richard Stoecklein came to a quiet and unremarked end. The stocky, graying man kept to himself, mostly. Sometimes you’d see him walking the streets of Hutchinson, the quiet southern Kansas town where he lived. Sometimes people would bang at his door, hoping to coax Val out of bed. Sometimes he’d call friends or old acquaintances late at night and subject them to long, rambling, occasionally hostile diatribes. But mostly he was the opposite—meticulous, shy, and, when he did talk, almost entirely affectless. His few acquaintances invariably described him as fragile; his counselors used other words, and his ex-wives, others still. His death did not make the paper in Hutchinson (population: 40,787). It might have been noted that Stoecklein, age 52, was a musician. He sang and played guitar in a 1960s band called the Blue Things, had some minor regional hits. Later, after he resigned himself to writing for others, Hank Williams Jr. and Pat Boone recorded a few of his songs. He drifted to Los Angeles and back, renounced and re-embraced performing several times, and had, at the time of his death, been recording demos. A... Read More About Val Stöecklein Biography...  Send Val Stöecklein ringtones to your cell
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