FEMALE VOCALS

Fat Water - Fat Water (1969)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:09:00 +0000

"Fat Water is the eponymous album from a rock act influenced by the San Francisco/Jefferson Airplane sound of the late '60s and early '70s. Fat Water probably hail from the west coast of America and fit very early '70s. The vocals are very much of the west coast San Francisco scene of that time and bring the Airplane's Grace Slick immediately to mind. Musically, the vocals are matched with acoustic guitars and swirling organ which gives a country rock feel that flows easily from full tilt boogie to slow blues."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Blues Rock
CD reissue: 2007
Quality: 320 Kbps
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Earthen Vessel - Heavy Rock: Everlasting Life (1971)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:11:00 +0000

"From Lansing, Michigan band, although their rare album is on a Tennessee label. The 45 cuts are on the album. Both records are undated, but sound circa 1970. The group played hard rock with male and female vocals (overtly religious lyrics) punctuated by loud fuzz guitar. The ultra- rare 1970 LP- Heavy Rock: Everlasting Life. Off the master tapes, this Jefferson Airplane/Cream inspired music is one of a kind. Spacey and very haunting vocals, distorted guitar, Farfisa Organ; it will take you to new limits of Psychedelia."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Hard Rock
CD reissue: 1999
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Deena Webster - Tuesday's Child (1968)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:45:00 +0000

"Deena Webster: Hurry, Tuesday Child (parlophone UK 68) very rare 6o's UK female folk/singer in her great and rare only album… Arthur Greenslade accompanied her on a few covers of Dylan, Paxton, Ochs, Donovan... Highly recommended if you're into female singer collection like Catherine Howe, Julie Covington, Ann Briggs, Barbara Dickson ..."

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2008
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Chris Harwood - Nice to Meet Miss Christine (1970)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:59:00 +0000

"Chris Harwood's debut LP for Miki Dallon's obscure British Birth label was the only record she ever made. No singles were ever released and it was seldom heard beyond these shores - the making of a record collector's holy grail. Alongside the obscure Vashti Bunyan LP, Shirley Collins and Julie Covington's early solo LP, "Nice to Meet Miss Christine" remains one of the most sought after English female folk records ever released. You just have to listen to her cover of CSN&Y's 'Wooden Ships' to realise why. Miss Christine's naked vocals ride a rock-solid back beat with clavinet funk and a wash of luscious strings sending you into a trance-like state."

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Language: English
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Genre: Acid Folk
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Brenda Wootton - Carillon (1979)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46:00 +0000

"Until her death in 1994 Brenda Wootton was an ambassador for the Cornish tradition and culture. ‘The Voice of Cornwall’ is a worthy remembrance of a great Cornish talent. Active on the UK folk scene since the early 60s, her early albums were on the Sentinel label in the late 60s when her 'Pipers Folk Club' was at its height - often recording & appearing with her then partner John the Fish (later a regular contributor to Radio Cornwall). She almost single-handedly kept the Cornish folk song tradition alive for many years, but always mixed in versions of other UK folk music and even pop/rock adaptations."

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Language: English
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Genre: Cornish Folk
CD reissue: ??
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Albion - Wabiac Cienie (2005)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Neo Prog band from Poland with female vocals [Katarzyna Sobkowicz-Malec]. Very beautiful and melodic compositions in a nice atmosphere. "Albion" mixes short and long compositions, and sometimes the influence of bands like Marillion become very clear. Close to the powerful neo Progressive rock, Albion reminds of Marillion, IQ and Jadis, with a Steve Hackett style of guitar sound and subtle keyboard parts.

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Language: Polish
Runtime: 49:01
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
Quality: 226-320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.albion.art.pl/

Victoria Spivey - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (1926-27) (1995)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:15:00 +0000

The first volume of Document's essential overview of pianist/singer Victoria Spivey's 1926-1927 recordings shows that despite her shockingly tender age, Spivey's singular style was already in full bloom. She was all of 19 when the first four solo voice-and-piano tracks were recorded in St. Louis, Missouri during May 1926, including her outstanding debut single "Black Snake Blues." Her piano playing is, as it would remain throughout her career, sturdy but not especially flashy; what made Spivey special was her songwriting and, most importantly, her one-of-a-kind vocals.

As flirty as a dirty-minded Betty Boop, Spivey, employing her naughty little squeak of a voice, makes her songs--particularly the matter-of-fact "Steady Grind"--sound almost innocent, which, of course, actually makes them sound 10 times bawdier. About halfway through this 23-track collection, guitarist Lonnie Johnson makes his first appearance, marking the point where Spivey fully reaches her artistic maturity, leading to instant blues classics "The Alligator Pond Went Dry" and "Dope Head Blues."

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Language: English
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Genre: Blues
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Tower - Tales From a Book of Yestermorrow (1994)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:42:00 +0000

"Tower is the brainchild of Arti & Mestieri's original keyboardist Beppe Crovella. He composed this collection of songs called "Tales from a Book of Yestermorrow" and it is an unusual progressive album to say the least. There is no guitarist or bass player to be found. Beppe on keys is joined only by drummer Elio Rivagli and famed Italian vocalist Paola Mei. The threesome manage such a well-rounded sound that even a guitar lover such as myself is able to appreciate the album. For keyboard fanatics this is a dream come true." (Progarchives.com)

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Language: English
Runtime: 44:08
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Sheila Jordan & Arild Andersen - Sheila (1977)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:00 +0000

"One of the most consistently creative of all jazz singers, Sheila Jordan has a relatively small voice, but has done the maximum with her instrument. She is one of the few vocalists who can improvise logical lyrics (which often rhyme), she is a superb scat singer, and is also an emotional interpreter of ballads." (All Music Guidereview)

"Better Than Anything" video:

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Language: English
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Genre: Vocal Jazz
CD reissue: 1994
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.sheilajordanjazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sheilajordanjazz

R-U Kaiser - Ocelos (2007)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:23:00 +0000

"Their music reamined well rooted in the symphonic prog trend with its "constrained" instrumentation of guitar-bass-drums-2 keyboards. With the entrance of Bárbara Wilson as a second female singer (a contralto who complements Pilar's soprano range) and Pablo doubling on guitar and bass, R-U Kaiser finally achieved the line-up set to record their debut concept-album "Ocelos" []" Progarchives.org review)

"Dioscuro" video:

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Language: Spanish
Runtime: 35:40
Genre: Symphonic Prog Rock
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.myspace.com/rukaiser
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58554302222

Peggy Seeger - Folk Songs of Courting and Complaint (1955)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:03:00 +0000

The half-sister of Pete Seeger and the widow of Ewan MacColl, singer/songwriter Peggy Seeger continued her family's long history of championing and preserving traditional music, most notably emerging as a seminal figure in the British folk song revival of the 1960s. From the mid-'50s onward, Seeger recorded regularly, cutting both original material and traditional compositions as a solo artist and in collaboration with MacColl as well as artists including Guy Carawan, Ralph Rinzler, and siblings Mike and Penny. In 1959 she settled in London, where she became involved with MacColl, the famed British musician and playwright. In the decades that followed prior to MacColl's 1989 death, the couple toured the world singing, lecturing, and preaching the importance of the British folk song tradition, typically emphasizing the connections between roots music and sociopolitical activism.

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Language: English
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Genre: Traditional Folk
CD reissue: 2004
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.peggyseeger.com/

The New Creation - Troubled (1970)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:44:00 +0000

Original cover

CD Reissue cover

"The New Creation was born in 1970 when Chris Towers, an unknown guitarist from Vancouver, decided to form a Christian rock group with Lorna Towers as lead singer and Janet Tiessen on drums. Scared by reports of the hippie excesses of the Manson/Altamont era, Lorna Towers wrote doom-laden, apocalyptic lyrics for the New Creation's aptly titled album, Troubled. The band was unpolished, yet somehow captured a unique lo-fi sound comparable to a hybrid of the Velvet Underground and the Shaggs."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk
CD reissue: 2003
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Moonstone - Moonstone (1973)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:14:00 +0000

"Moonstone released a completely left unnoticed LP on the private Canadian label Kot’Ai somewhere in the early ‘70’s, and, like the label says, what a great discovery this is indeed. On the first track, female singer Carolyn Maclead sounds like a cross between Vasthi Bunyan and perhaps Linda Perhacs. All tracks have delicate and gentle fingerpicking guitar." (psychedelicfolk.com review)

Don't confuse with many other bands called Moonstone.

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Lulu & The Luvvers - Something to Shout About (1965)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:55:00 +0000

2008 digitally remastered collection of the Scottish vocalist's early hit-laden years featuring her debut album and more. Since storming the charts at the tender age of 15 with The Isley Brothers' classic 'Shout!', reinvented in a Brenda Lee-like rasp of amazing power, Lulu has been a star. Collaborations with David Bowie, Jennifer Saunders, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Duane Allman, Bert Berns, Take That and the star is always Lulu! Unbelievably, she has charted in five decades. With notes by Brian Hogg, author of All That Ever Mattered, the definitive history of Scottish Rock and Pop, this will be a pretty definitive take on Lulu's first hit-making couple of years. Rev-Ola.

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Language: English
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Genre: Oldies
CD reissue: 2008
Quality: 160-256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.lulu.co.uk/

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Kathy Smith - Some Songs I've Saved (1970)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:22:00 +0000

"This wonderful album will appeal to fans of Carole King, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. Originally released in 1970 & making its CD debut here.Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his inhabits the deep, searching melancholy floating through the post-Manson, post-Altamont counterculture of 1970."

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2007
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Inner Dialogue - Inner Dialogue (1969)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:38:00 +0000

"A superb sunshine pop album, with some baroque touches. Two women singers and their intertwining vocals weave complex vocal parts around top rate arrangements."

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Language: English
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Genre: Sunshine Pop
CD reissue: ??
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Harlequin Mass - Harlequin Mass (1978)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:09:00 +0000

"Formed in Portland, Oregon in the mid-seventies, Harlequin Mass was part of a brief and modest wave of bands coming from American Northwest in that decade. Unlike most of their contemporaries though, Harlequin Mass were largely influenced by progressive bands such as the Moody Blues, Yes, and Genesis The band has pointed to the release of 'Close to the Edge' as the pivotal moment in the maturation of their sound, and their sound has been compared to a folk-influenced version of Yes and ELP." (ProgArchives review)

Vocals and bass synthesizer by Nancy Deaver (aka Nancy Kaye)

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Language: English
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Genre: Symphonic Prog Rock
CD reissue: 2000
Quality: 256 Kbps
website: http://www.silentera.com/family/carl/music/HarlequinMass/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/harlequinmasspdxprog

The Grodeck Whipperjenny - The Grodeck Whipperjenny (1970)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:05:00 +0000

"The Grodeck Whipperjenny, recorded in 1970 in Cincinnati, is an album that won universal critical claim but still failed to propel the highly talented outfit into the big time. Described by one critic as 'a superb psychedelic/progressive effort -- full of imagination and fresh ideas,' others locked into the album's abundant funky rhythms, prompting another pundit to excitedly proclaim Grodeck as 'an acid funk monster of an album which will blow the flavor saver right off your mug!' Every track is excellent in its own right which makes it difficult to single out particular highlights, but 'Conclusions' is a superb instrumental of jaw-dropping strings, heavy Hammond and stinging guitar, while 'Evidence For The Existence Of The Unconscious' features fine keyboards, echoed vocal and fuzz guitar."
Vocals by Mary Ellen Bell

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock
CD reissue: 2005
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

Folkal Point - Folkal Point (1971)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:24:00 +0000

"This acoustic group's main asset is Cherie Musialik's voice, which like the best British woman folk singers of the late '60s and early '70s has a high, pristine timbre -- not on the level of Jacqui McShee and Sandy Denny, but closer to their level than most singers in the same territory. Her voice is backed with sensitive accompaniment on acoustic guitar and bass, as well as occasional male backup vocal. The main flaw is that much of the material presented consists of basic and well-played, but not extremely inventive, covers of folk songs and more recent singer/songwriter compositions in the same style." (All Music Guide review)

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Language: English
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Genre: British Folk
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 256 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: NA

Deirdre - Deirdre (1977)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:37:00 +0000

"The folk-rock band Deirdre from South-East Brabant started in 1975 and played current arrangements of traditional British songs and Celtic and Dutch melodies in the style of Albion Country Band, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. The one and only self-titled album presents Frank 'Ollie' Overzier (guitar / mandolin), Geert Hoes (fiddle), Ad van Meurs (keyboards), Mik Boes (drums), Jopie Jonker (vocals, guitar), Hans Jansen ( guitar, mandolin) and Pieter Thijssen (cittern)."

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Language: English, Dutch
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Genre: Folk Rock
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 224 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: http://www.jopiejonkers.com/

Conqueror - Istinto (2003)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:53:00 +0000

"The debut album Istinto was released in 2003. It is an excellent album in the seventies tradition, but with a modern and personal sound. The group manages to produce beautiful melodic lines continuously with nice arrangements. The music is mostly driven by the excellent keyboard/guitar interplay. Also, the mesmerizing voice of Simona Rigano can't be overlooked because the female vocals do set them apart from the majority of similar groups." (Prog Archives review)

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Language: Italian
Runtime: 54:24
Genre: Italian Prog Rock
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: http://www.conqueror.it/

Barbara Dickson - From The Beggar's Mantle... Fringed With Gold (1971)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:47:00 +0000

"Barbara Dickson's second album is very much in the style of some of the better British folk and folk-rock singers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as Maddy Prior and Sandy Denny. The vocals are high and stirring, though not quite in the same league as the aforementioned two artists. The material is on the slightly sad and reflective side, though it's more traditional-based than much British folk-rock of the time, not least because there are no drums. Dickson does get sympathetic accompaniment on cello, bass, guitar, fiddle, and concertina, in addition to playing guitar and piano herself. But in the main it's more specifically traditional and British in flavor, and overall recommended to deep collectors of early-'70s British folk and folk-rock. " "All Music Guide review)

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Language: English
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Genre: British/Celtic Folk
CD reissue: 2002
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.barbaradickson.net/
http://www.myspace.com/barbaradickson

Ten Wheel Drive - Brief Replies (1970)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:06:00 +0000

"Ten Wheel Drive was a highly influential rock/jazz group not afraid to push the envelope while exploring various musical styles. The original lead vocalist and founding member, Genya Ravan, spoke with AMG concerning how she formed the band: "I went to see Billy Fields, he was going to manage me. He had a friend in New Jersey that befriended two guys that were writers and they were looking for someone to sing their songs. Billy asked me if I wanted to hear them, I said 'OK' since I was always looking for material, so I met with Mike Zager and Aram Schefrin at a dinky little piano studio in Times Square. They played "Polar Bear Rug" and "I Am a Want Ad" and got me interested even though I thought they sounded more like show tunes, I was also an actress, so I liked it. At this time, I had an R&B band and they came to hear me in some sleazy bar and they liked what they heard and saw. They did not have a band nor musicians in mind, I knew some good jazz players, so (we) got the musicians and started to audition and rehearse." (AMG review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Jazz Rock
CD reissue: 1995
Quality: 320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.genyaravan.com/
http://www.myspace.com/genyaravan
http://www.facebook.com/genya.ravan

Silmaril - The Voyage of Icarus (1974)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:05:00 +0000

"The basic tenets of hippiedom have a close connection to those of Christianity. Love thy neighbor, peace be with you, etc. Add an acoustic guitar, a Catholic church and a bunch of teenagers singing in the balcony and you've got 10:15 Sunday mass. You've also got the "Real People" aesthetic of Silmaril, a little known band out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin who, in 1973 and 1974, recorded an album called The Voyage of Icarus that combined religion, psychedelic folk and, a mythologic cosmology. Made up of friends who met at a Catholic youth retreat, Silmaril's sound is more the pastoral side of Peter, Paul and Mary than, say, Syd Barrett, despite naming themselves after a fictional sacred stone thought up by JRR Tolkien. Performing fantastical songs and psalms, The Voyage of Icarus is led by the acoustic guitar, and modest, pleasant voice of founder Matthew Peregrine, with the occasional and somewhat shrill soprano of Sharon Larke." (Other Music review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk
CD reissue: 2007
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Rosemary Haddad - Coming Hohm (1975)

noreply@blogger.com (BaalMan) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:53:00 +0000

"One of the best hippie commune albums. Rosemary even includes a photo of her guru on the back cover. Rather than being new agey dullness like, say, The Oneness Space, this music is strong folk-rock with Rosemary's lovely voice to the forefront. She seems truly at peace with her lifestyle; the album has a comforting vibe to it. Some of the songs are only OK, but the album ends with a bang. The last two songs are the fantastic "Kitchen Floor Song," full of purposely funny pseudo-psychology and chaotic backing vocals, and the utterly gorgeous reprise of the title song." [Acid Archives review]

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Language: English
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Genre: Hippie Folk
CD reissue: never reissued
Quality: 224-256 Kbps (vinyl rip)
Official website: NA