Title:
Seasons they change : the story of acid and psychedelic folk
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
London : Jawbone Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
366 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781906002329
Abstract:
Jeanette Leech tells the story of the birth, death and resurrection of acid and psychedelic folk music. It explores the careers of the original wave of artists and their contemporary equivalents, finding connections between both periods, and uncovering a previously hidden narrative of musical adventure.
Contents:
Hares on the mountain : British folk running free -- Vibrations : US folk freaks out -- Waltz of the new moon : the birth of psychedelic folk in Britain -- Lepers and roses : the story of ESP-Disk -- Yesterday, where's my mind? : psychedelic folk takes on the US majors -- Chariots of silk : the charge of the British folk underground -- Spirit of love : visions and voyages -- Bitten : all the colours of darkness -- Oeuvres : a European panorama -- The furthest point : progressive folk in the British Isles -- Sanctuary stone : the wonderful world of private pressings -- My rose has left me : decline and wilderness -- Black sun, bloody moon : punk, post-punk, and the apocalypse -- Whither thou goest : independent music, independent spirits -- Wisdom on the moth's wing : breaking new ground -- A place In time : free folk and the new weird America -- Sum of all heaven : a sound finds its feet -- There was sun : freak folk takes on the world -- Reality's a fantasy : Britain and the new psychedelic folk -- Hellical rising : the unique, the avant-garde, and the unexpected -- Here before : bridging the years.
Language:
English
