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Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk, but adds musical elements common to psychedelic music.
Sep 18, 2015 · From its beginnings in the late '60s to today, psychedelic folk has aimed to absorb, acknowledge, and update the past while meeting modern needs. Grayson Haver Currin picks some of the genre's...
- Comus "First Utterance" How on earth did six people from England come up with this concept? If ever there was evidence that druids carried on, it is here in this scary and beautiful album.
- Incredible String Band "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" If Donovan did not create the first of the clear and profound psychedelic folk albums, it was probably Mike Heron and Robin Williamson on their second LP.
- Pentangle "Basket of Light" While not psychedelic on its face, the depth and clarity Pentangle achieves on their third album in astonishing. The band was never more together and they could do breezy hippie chic songs like “Light Flight” and original classics like “Hunting Song” and make it flow to where you never want it to end.
- Donovan "Sunshine Superman" myspace.com | youtube.com. www.comusmusic.co.uk. Due to stupid record label and legal delays, most people did not get to hear this when it was at its most revolutionary point, as it practically invented psychedelic folk music.
- Donovan – Sunshine Superman. (1966; Epic) Turning away from his usual folk albums, Donovan’s 1966 album Sunshine Superman may be described as “bubblegum psychedelic.”
- The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter. (1968; Elektra) Suppose some cosmic mirthmaker travels back in time a couple hundred years to spike everyone’s drink in an Elizabethan pub with some pretty potent doses of LSD.
- Tim Buckley – Happy Sad. (1969; Elektra) At just 20 years old, Tim Buckley entered a phase of his career that stands as a period of creative fertility that yielded five outstanding albums in just three years.
- Linda Perhacs – Parallellograms. (1970; Kapp) California singer/songwriter Linda Perhacs became a cult sensation decades after releasing her debut album in 1970, and in the decades afterward she worked as a dentist, only in the past decade returning to recording new music.
Aug 29, 2014 · Well, psych and acid folk is no different in the validity of its classification, and these bands cover the spectrum. Some of it is tangentially psychedelic–psychedelic by association with the rest of the band’s oeuvre or communal lifestyle.
my Acid Folk top 50 (mostly English or German, 1967-1980, mostly 1969-1973) A list by acidhappy. Categories: 1980. [List174401] | +78. Roughly in order from favorite to least favorite. I highly recommend any of the first 20 albums.
