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Pokey LaFarge - Something In The Water (2015) {Rounder Records 11661-36919-02}
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© 2015 Rounder Records / Concord | 11661-36919-02
Americana / Jazz / Blues

Some artists who evoke the styles of the past seem to have spent every waking moment of their adult lives struggling to sound as if they were born in a different decade. Pokey LaFarge, on the other hand, makes music that suggests he somehow passed through a wrinkle in time from 1929 to 2015, complete with his banjo in hand; LaFarge's music never seems forced, but flows from him naturally with an easy grace, a playful insouciance, and a confidence in his talent that stops well short of arrogance.

The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968) {Water - water101 rel 2002}
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© 1968, 2002 Elektra / Water | water101
Psychedelic Folk / Folk Rock / Anti Folk / Country Folk / Freak Folk / Acid Folk

In the mid- to late '60s you couldn't get much further underground in the ever-expanding world of rock music than the Fugs – unless of course you were one of the Holy Modal Rounders, i.e. folk musicians Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber. The Rounders started out in the same early-'60s New York folk and jug scene as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, and had crossed paths numerous times. Stampfel and Weber will be eternally remembered for "Bird Song," which was prominently featured in both the movie Easy Rider and its soundtrack.