Alexander 'Skip' Spence - "Broken Heart" (3:27)
Fred Neil - "I've Got A Secret (Didn't We Shake Sugaree)" (4:38)
John Fahey - "Jesus Is A Dying Bedmaker" (4:17)
Bert Jansch - "Bert Jansch" (3:14)
Roedelius - "Balsam" (2:19)
Shuggie Otis - "Jennie Lee" (2:06)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Observatory Crest" (3:30)
Kevin Ayres - "May I?" (4:01)
The Electric Prunes - "Holy Are You" (4:04)
Eden Ahbez - "Eden's Island" (2:12)
Nina Simone - "Come Ye" (3:35)
Damon - "The Night" (2:04)
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - "Sais (Egypt)" (8:07)
Kathy Smith - "It's Taking So Long" (4:56)
Tim Buckley - "Buzzin' Fly" (6:02)
Bill Fay - "I Hear You Calling" (2:54)
Gene Clark - "With Tomorrow" (2:24)
Willie Nelson - "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" (2:21)
Review: Two-Piers is one of those very special imprints that has tasked itself with unearthing the kind of gems people who compile movie soundtracks only ever seem to be able to find. In the past, the label's compilations have focused on essay-worthy things like the evolution of French pop (1964-2019, no less), and but in this case the team turns its attention to a bonafide zeitgeist.
Calling everything here 'rare' would be overstating it - we have legendary household names in the form of Nina Simone, Willie Nelson, and Tim Buckley, to name but a few. But nothing here is an obvious choice, calling to mind a bygone age when you could still find yourself discovering new material by chart-toppers years after falling in love with them because access to everything was limited. Aligned by a feeling - late nights spent stargazing with equally obsessed musos - what's here is marvelously timeless.
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