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Product Description The oddly named folk music duo from the Lower East Side blends folk revival and psychedelia (incidentally, their version of Hesitation Blues -included here-features one of the earliest usages of the term psychadelic ) on this record combining their first two Prestige albums. Tracks include Blues in the Bottle; The Cuckoo; Euphoria; Long John; Hey, Hey Baby; Moving Day; Same Old Man; Hop High Ladies; Bound to Lose; Bully of the Town; Sail Away Ladies; Clinch Mountain Backstep , and more, plus the previously unreleased tracks Sugar in the Gourd and Soldier's Joy ! Also features new historical liner notes by Larry Kelp! Amazon.com This is a reissue of the first two Holy Modal Rounders records, resequenced according to the artists' original intent and including two unreleased songs from the time of the recording (1963-64). Perhaps the most earsplittingly original duo of the entire folk revival, the Holy Modal Rounders (fiddler-banjoist with guitarist Steve Weber) merged the raw energies of rock, traditional American folk, and blues in a weird, whimsical manner (later dunderheadedly termed "acid folk"). The Holy Modal Rounders performed screeching yet subtle versions of old numbers by the likes of , Vernon Dalhart, and , updating tunes like "Hesitation Blues" with a countercultural reference or two (their version of that song contains the first recorded usage of "psychedelic"). This is one of the coolest things about the Rounders--as Stampfel writes in the liner notes, their basic approach to an old tune was to "hear song, forget song, try to remember song while adding your personal wrinkles, bingo!" An irreverent wit pervades the disc, from pop-tune parodies such as "Mr. Spaceman" to their original folk-based songs (which were neither preachy nor ham-fisted--a true rarity in '63) such as "Blues in the Bottle" and "Hey, Hey Baby." The result not only sounds way less corny than anything else from the era, but hews much closer to the raggedly strange, sublime Americana sounds of , , and . --Mike McGonigal
