This compilation of acid folk songs is culled from mostly obscure albums recorded between 1968-1971, just after the death of hippy when the longhairs turned to freaky mysticism for solace as the flower power dream became tinged with the stuff of nightmare.
And what a far out collection of beautiful weirdness, edgy themes and lyrics, the Bonnie Dobson song is a pure piece of acid folk...until you listen more closely to the lyrics ! Christine Harwood's take on the Stills classic is weirdly wonderful with a Donovan sample at the end that just adds a spooky frisson. An achingly beautiful Chimacum Rain byLinda Perhacs and the sublime Sandy Denny singing Autopsy with the Fairports are just a few of the stand outs. 
Feel The Spirit - Heaven & Earth
Mr Man - Air
Magician In The Mountain - Sunforest
Free Wheel - Hard Meat
Autopsy - Fairport Convention
Get Thy Bearings - Donovan
Wooden Ships - Christine Harwood
For You - Barbara and Ernie
Winters Going - Bonnie Dobson
Ebony Glass - Nancy Priddy
Rose Hip November - Vashti Bunyan
Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs
Along Came Sam - Spleen
An Elegy - Free Design
End of the World - Kathy Smith
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