Label: Water Records (US), water101
Style: Psychedelic Folk
Country: New York, NY, U.S.
Time: 26:28
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 158 Mb
Fiddle and banjo player Peter Stampfel and country-blues guitarist Steve Weber were introduced to each other by Greenwich Village figure Antonia (also known as Antonia Stampfel or Antonia Duren). Stampfel and Antonia were dating at the time and she would receive many cowriting credits to the band's songs. According to Peter Stampfel, he and Weber began performing together as an act in May 1963, not long after being introduced.
Music critic Richie Unterberger remarked that the duo intended to "update old-time folk music with a contemporary spirit." He expanded that "they twisted weathered folk standards with wobbly vocals, exuberantly strange arrangements, and interpretations that were liberal, to say the least." John Sebastian, of the Lovin' Spoonful, noted that the duo stood out in Greenwich Village because they "played [old-time folk music] in an irreverent way [and] with a sense of humor." Stampfel himself described his approach to music at the time: "I got the idea in 1963: What if Charlie Poole, and Charley Patton, and Uncle Dave Macon and all those guys were magically transported from the late 1920s to 1963? And then they were exposed to contemporary rock 'n' roll. What did they do? And that sounded way, way, way more interesting than" faithfully imitating folk music.
The duo released their first album, The Holy Modal Rounders in 1964. Most notably, it contained a version of "Hesitation Blues", the lyrics of which included the first use of the term psychedelic (here pronounced "psycho-delic") in popular music. Shortly after the release of their second album The Holy Modal Rounders 2 in 1965, the duo joined The Fugs for a short time. Their 1965 recordings with the Fugs are on the band's debut studio album The Village Fugs and compilation albums Virgin Fugs and Fugs 4, Rounders Score. Weber's cult classic "Boobs a Lot" was included on The Village Fugs and the Rounders recorded their own version of the song on the 1971 album Good Taste Is Timeless.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Modal_Rounders)
01. Bird Song (02:14)
02. One Will Do For Now (01:22)
03. Take-Off Artist Song (02:36)
04. Werewolf (03:40)
05. Interlude (00:48)
06. Dame Fortune (02:56)
07. Mobile Line (03:19)
08. The Duji Song (00:22)
09. My Mind Capsized (02:46)
10. The Step Song (01:12)
11. Interlude 2 (01:41)
12. Half A Mind (02:23)
13. The Pledge (01:05)
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