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Psychedelic folk

Index Psychedelic folk

Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. [1]

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Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Adem Ilhan

Adem Ilhan (Adem İlhan) is an English musician of Turkish descent from South London.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Animal Collective

Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2003.

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Anne Briggs

Anne Patricia Briggs (born 29 September 1944) is an English folk singer.

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Anti-folk

Anti-folk (sometimes antifolk or unfolk) is a music genre that arose in the 1980s in reaction to the insularity of the remnants of the 1960s folk music scene.

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Arborea (band)

Arborea is an American psychedelic folk duo consisting of husband and wife Buck Curran and Shanti Curran.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bunky and Jake

Bunky and Jake were an American folk rock duo, who were a part of the New York folk music scene in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys

Cat Mother and The All Night Newsboys was an American musical group, originally formed in New York and later based in Mendocino, California, most active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Chant

A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones.

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CocoRosie

CocoRosie is an American musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady.

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Comus (band)

Comus are a British progressive folk band who had a brief career in the early 1970s.

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Contemporary folk music

Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid 20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music.

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Country Joe and the Fish

Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965.

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Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist.

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Donovan

Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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E Pluribus Unum (album)

E Pluribus Unum is the third album by folk guitarist Sandy Bull, released in 1969 through Vanguard Records.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760).

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Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo

Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo is the debut album of the folk guitarist Sandy Bull, released in 1963 through Vanguard Records.

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Five Leaves Left

Five Leaves Left is the debut studio album by English folk musician Nick Drake.

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Flower power

Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Freak scene

The freak scene was originally a component of the bohemian subculture which began in California in the mid-1960s, associated with (or part of) the hippie movement.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Grizzly Bear (band)

Grizzly Bear is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.

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Grouper (musician)

Grouper is the solo project of American musician, artist and producer Liz Harris.

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Hesitation Blues

"Hesitation Blues" is a popular song adapted from a traditional tune.

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Hippie

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indie folk

Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music.

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Interstellar Overdrive

"Interstellar Overdrive" is an instrumental composition written and performed by Pink Floyd.

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Jam band

A jam band is a musical group whose live albums and concerts relate to a fan culture that began in the 1960s with the Grateful Dead, and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Joanna Newsom

Joanna Caroline Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and actress.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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Kaleidoscope (American band)

Kaleidoscope (originally The Kaleidoscope) was an American psychedelic folk and ethnic band who recorded 4 albums and several singles for Epic Records between 1966 and 1970.

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Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a solo performer and as one half of The Moldy Peaches.

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Lead Belly

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced.

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Linda Perhacs

Linda Perhacs (born December 1, 1943) is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her first album, Parallelograms, in 1970 to scant notice or sales.

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List of psychedelic folk artists

The following is a list of psychedelic folk artists.

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Live 1967 (Red Krayola album)

Live 1967 is a live performance album by the experimental rock band Red Krayola, released on July 28, 1998 through Drag City.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.

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Love (band)

Love is an American rock group that was most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Mount Eerie

Mount Eerie is the musical project of Anacortes, Washington-based songwriter and producer Phil Elverum.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Neo-psychedelia

Neo-psychedelia is a genre of psychedelic music that originated in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the British post-punk scene, also called acid punk.

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Neofolk

Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk or dark folk, is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1980s as an outgrowth of post-punk and post-industrial music, blending acoustic instruments such as guitar and snare drum with elements of industrial music.

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New Weird America

New Weird America is music derived mainly from psychedelic rock and folk groups of the 1960s and 1970s, including American performers Holy Modal Rounders and English and Scottish groups, such as Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, Donovan, and Comus.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.

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Pearls Before Swine (band)

Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, now part of Melbourne, Florida.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Progressive folk

Progressive folk was originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, but in the United Kingdom the term became attached to a musical subgenre.

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Psychedelic drug

Psychedelics are a class of drug whose primary action is to trigger psychedelic experiences via serotonin receptor agonism, causing thought and visual/auditory changes, and altered state of consciousness.

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Psychedelic folk

Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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Psychedelic pop

Psychedelic pop is a pop music subgenre in which musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music are applied to pop songs.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Psychedelic soul

Psychedelic soul, sometimes called black rock, is a music genre that emerged in the late 1960s which saw soul musicians embrace elements of psychedelic rock, including its production techniques, instrumentation, effects units (wah-wah, phaser, etc.) and drug influences.

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Ptolemaic Terrascope

Ptolemaic Terrascope is a magazine covering old and new music, usually of a psychedelic nature.

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Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service (sometimes credited as simply Quicksilver) is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco.

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Quilt (band)

Quilt are a four-piece psychedelic indie rock band from Boston consisting of Anna Fox Rochinski (vocals/guitars), Shane Butler (vocals/guitars), Keven Lareau (vocals/bass) and John Andrews (vocals/drums).

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Red Krayola

Red Krayola (formerly The Red Crayola) was a psychedelic experimental rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966.

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Richard Dawson (musician)

Richard Dawson is a folk musician from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Rodrigo Amarante

Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves (born September 6, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and occasional arranger.

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Sandy Bull

Alexander Bull (February 25, 1941 – April 11, 2001) was an American folk musician and composer.

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Shirley Collins

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935) is an English folk singer who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.

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Still Valentine's Day 1969

Still Valentine's Day 1969 is a live album by American folk guitarist Sandy Bull, released in 2006 through Water Records.

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Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Syd Barrett

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician.

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T. Rex (band)

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions

The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1966.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873.

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The Holy Modal Rounders

The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who began performing together on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1960s.

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The Incredible String Band

The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Scotland in 1966.

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The Madcap Laughs

The Madcap Laughs is the debut solo album by the English singer-songwriter Syd Barrett.

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The Microphones

The Microphones were an American rock band from Olympia, Washington, founded in 1996 and ended in 2003, with a short reunion following in 2007.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Peanut Butter Conspiracy

The Peanut Butter Conspiracy was a Los Angeles-based psychedelic pop/rock group from the 1960s.

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Vashti Bunyan

Vashti Bunyan (born Jennifer Vashti Bunyan in 1945) is an English singer-songwriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_folk

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