The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders [1968] [Album]

MOJO Magazine: Buried Treasure "Album That Time Forgot."

Artist: The Holy Modal Rounders
Release: The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders
Discogs: 2623156
Released: 1968 / 2002
Label: Elektra / Water
Catalog#: EKS 74026 / water101
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD, Reissue
Country: US
Style: Folk, World, & Country, Experimental, Folk

Tracklisting:

01. Bird Song
02. One Will Do For Now
03. Take-Off Artist Song
04. Werewolf
05. Interlude
06. Dame Fortune
07. Mobile Line
08. The Duji Song
09. My Mind Capsized
10. The STP Song
11. Interlude 2
12. Half A Mind
13. The Pledge


From almusic.com:

In the mid- to late '60s you couldn't get much further underground in the ever-expanding world of rock music than the Fugs -- unless of course you were one of the Holy Modal Rounders, i.e. folk musicians Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber. The Rounders started out in the same early-'60s New York folk and jug scene as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, and had crossed paths numerous times. Stampfel and Weber will be eternally remembered for "Bird Song," which was prominently featured in both the movie Easy Rider and its soundtrack. It's also the opening cut on The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders, an album way beyond anything else considered to be "far out" at the time. Released in 1968 on Elektra, the 13 tracks are highlighted by such otherworldly compositions as "Werewolf," "My Mind Capsized," "The STP Song," and "Half a Mind." Unabashed in its own eccentricity, this set is similar to their 1967 ESP release Indian War Whoop in that it combines acoustic traditional American folk, blues, and hillbilly music regurgitated by crazed folkie acidheads experimenting with electric instruments. Following the disc's release, Stampfel said this album reflected producer Frazier Mohawk's musical taste more so than the band's. The Modal duo are assisted, in this case, by playwright Sam Shepard on tambourine, Richard Tyler on piano, and John Wesley Annis on bass and drums. As good luck would have it, the Water label unleashed this CD on the public for the first time in 2002 with two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Absolutely essential.

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