psychadelic folk

Country Joe McDonald, a Woodstock icon and the leader of the psychedelic folk-rock outfit Country Joe and the Fish, has died at the age of 84. The news was confirmed by his wife Kathy, who wrote, among other things, that Joe passed away…

With »T. Rex«, one of the more important achievements of his prematurely ended musical career, Bolan was reborn, going from a reclusive psychedelic dreamer to a showman of a glam rock guru. As he gradually molted into an electric guitarist,…

"A Beard of Stars," the most interesting record of Bolan's psychedelic folk era, was already starting to show signs, through its gradual 'electrification,' that a big stylistic shift was on the way.

On »Unicorn«, amid the psychedelic daydreaming, Bolan and Took still kept to acoustic-leaning waters and clung to the mystique of obscure psychedelic folk, even though a handful of tracks already hinted that this wouldn't last forever.

With their insistence on strange, often abstract and metaphysical lyrics, fully acoustic and obscure song structures, exotic percussion and Bolan's idiosyncratic vocal approach, Tyrannosaurus Rex were an odd sight even in the experimentally…

"My People Were Fair…" absolutely did not survive the test of time. It sounded backward-looking just a few years after its release, the moment Bolan switched to electric guitar and discovered glam rock, which happened to coincide with the…