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U.F.O. is the debut album by psychedelic folk singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan, released in 1969. The album was unpopular upon release, but has gained a cult following in part due to the mysterious disappearance of Sullivan. While it is commonly known as U.F.O., a 1970 pressing on Century City Records titled the album simply as Jim Sullivan. [1] [2]
Psychedelic folk (sometimes wyrd folk, acid folk or freak folk) [2] 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 .
Jan Dukes de Grey is considered to have been among the least conventional musicians associated with the progressive folk scene [1] and in particular their 1971 album, Mice And Rats In The Loft, has come to be viewed as a seminal British acid folk album and as one of the wildest relics of the florid post-hippie era. [2]
Forming in Coventry, England, in 1968, the original Dando Shaft was a quintet composed of the two guitar/vocalists Kevin Dempsey and Dave Cooper, multi-instrumentalist Martin Jenkins, bassist Roger Bullen, and tabla/percussionist Ted Kay. [1]
Linda Perhacs (born 21 September 1943) [1] is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her first album, Parallelograms, in 1970 to scant notice or sales. [2] The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and reissued numerous times beginning in 1998, growing in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet.
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams is the psychedelic folk-rock band formed from the remnants of another rock band that broke up because they were wary of making it big and having to sell out.
Forest was an English psychedelic-folk / acid-folk trio who formed in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, in 1966.Made up of brothers Martin Welham and Adrian Welham and school friend Dez Allenby, they started out performing unaccompanied traditional folk music in a similar vein to contemporaries The Watersons and The Young Tradition. [1]
AllMusic's Jason Ankeny called it a "minor classic of psychedelic folk". [3] The album has also been called acid folk . [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Richie Unterberger called the album "the kind of idiosyncratically weird effort that could have only been made in the late '60s", with "trippy", " Through the Looking-Glass -like dreamy jottings" for lyrics.