Fuzzed Out Folk
* Susan Christie: Rainy Day (5.5 mb) | Paint A Lady (3.5 mb) | No One Can Hear You (3.5 mb)
From Paint A Lady : Finders Keepers Records : FKR007CD
Wow. To think that all the way back in 1970, Susan Christie, John Hill and company created this funk folk masterpiece, only to have it be rejected by the record companies due to their short-sightedness.
Susan Christie was a Philly based sophomore folk singer who had one novelty hit for a major label and never quite recovered - Afterwards, her psychedelic take on country standards and hand crafted tales of inner-city solitude backed by a break heavy folk-funk rhythm section was never accepted as a commercial viabilty by record company big-wigs - They obviously couldnt quite muster their nostradamus sensibilities to forsee what future hiphop producers and DJ’s would be feeding into digital music-machines 30 years down the line! (from the liner notes)
Not having an idea of what this album would sound like, I was instantly captivated from the first guitar licks to the introduction of her heavenly vocals. This is totally groovy album that would still sound out of this world if it had been recorded this year. Absolutely amazing.
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