If you’re familiar with the jam band community at all, there’s a good to fair chance that you’ve heard of Merl Saunders, as he often sometimes played keyboard with the Jerry Garcia…
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Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant (1967)
Arlo Guthrie was an American folk artist, who has since retired. Similar to his Father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo was somewhat of a specialist with protest songs against social injustice through storytelling and…
Tom Paxton – Ramblin’ Boy (1964)
Tom Paxton is an American folk artist, who began his career in 1962, and has toured as recently as 2019. He’s won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and created modern folk standards…
Message – The Dawn Anew Is Coming (1972)
Keeping with the minor trend starting from yesterday, today I’ll be listening to an album from another genre I haven’t written about yet, Krautrock (this is a subgenre that Discogs lists for…
Blackbird Raum – Under the Starling Host (2009)
A genre I had never thought about until recently was folk punk music. When I was first told about Blackbird Raum, I was immediately interested in giving them a listen, and tonight’s…
Elias Hulk – Unchained (1970)
I don’t quite recall which album I was listening to when this album showed up on my dashboard under the ‘also suggested for you’ section on Apple Music the other night, but…
The David – Another Day, Another Lifetime (1967)
The David was a psychedelic garage rock band from Los Angeles, first formed in 1965 under the name of ‘The Reasons’, which eventually changed by the time the band released their only…
Scott Walker – Scott (1967)
Scott Walker was a pop turned avant-garde musician who was born in Ohio, lived in California, but became something of a British singer-songwriter by the end of his career. Walker passed away…
The Golden Dawn – Power Plant (1968)
The Golden Dawn was a short-lived psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas, which formed in 1966 and broke up shortly after their one and only album’s release in 1968. Unfortunately for the…
Kaleidoscope – Side Trips (Expanded Edition) (1967)
Kaleidoscope was an American psychedelic folk band formed in Los Angeles that was mostly active between 1966 and 1970, though the band reunited on in 1976 and 1990 to record new albums….