DAVE BIXBY Ode To Quetzalcoatl LP/1969 TOP LONER FOLK /Perry Leopold/Bob Desper

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DAVE BIXBY 'Ode To Quetzalcoatl' LP (US, New Fortune Records, Catalogue #NFR-023) Brand new/unplayed copy of superior, limited New Fortune Records label LP edition of mega-rare 1969 US Top Loner Folk album by Dave Bixby. Of the few reissues of this album that have been issued over the years, this edition is widely regarded to be the absolute finest and most correct of them all, restoring the fidelity and ambience of the 1969 original edition back to its original state.

(NOTE: LIMITED, SUPERIOR NEW FORTUNE LABEL VINYL EDITION!)

"Dave Bixby sings in a moan-lilting, slightly echoing voice whose sad and lonesome feel gives the impression that his demons have by no means been wholly exercised by salvation. 3rd press - authentically restored to it's original 1969 fidelity by Erik Kassab."

'Dave Bixby's legendary $2000 private press album from 1969 is considered by all serious record collectors as the king in the loner/downer-folk genre. After being involved in '60s Michigan folk and garage-rock bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, Bixby started playing acoustic guitar and experimenting with LSD. After a year of drug abuse, he felt broken. Starting a soul-searching, spiritual journey, he wrote Ode To Quetzalcoatl and most of the material for his second album, Harbinger's Second Coming in just a month and a half. Assisted by fellow musician Brian MacInness, who played some guitar parts on the album, Bixby recorded this record in a living room using an echo-laden 4-track machine. The sound is lo-fi and sparse: just acoustic guitars and some occasional harmonica & flute, added to Bixby's haunting, emotional vocals, spiritual lyrics and solid songwriting. The opening cut, the eerie and painful "Drug Song" sets the mood perfectly for the rest of the album. Never again has an acoustic folk album sounded as intense as this.'

'Highly rated by the few who have heard it, this tormented religious loner-downer folk LP has to rank as on of the ultimate incarnations of the style. The opening "Drug Song" sets the tone perfectly as a supreme world-weary, echo-laden guy laments on he screwed himself up with dope; "I'm no longer a person, I can't even feel". The resolution is (of course) Christ, who is serenaded in the following tracks, although the despairing, suicidal mood is strangely unchanged. Salvation or none, it seems most things are still a mess for Bixby. Numbers such as "Mother" and the Grudzien-level "666" confirm such suspicians. Musically, it's a well-written lo-fi recording of steelstring acoustic and a single voice, much like Christopher Montgomery, but undoubtedly more tortured and intense. Frantic guitar strumming is used to tighten up the tension in an effective way a la Perry Leopold, while more lyrical moods are supported by swift fingerpicking. The vocals are amateurish and somewhat uneven, and in fact work best when most charged with emotion. The organic correspondence between lyrics, playing and arrangements is impressive and makes the LP seem more alive and artistically aware than most in this often disappointing genre. Must be heard by any fringe folk fan.' - Patrick Lundborg/Acid Archives

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

• Drug Song (3:20)
• Free Indeed (3:18)
• I Have Seen Him (3:15)
• Mother (3:00)
• Morning Sun (3:31)
• Prayer (3:13)
• Lonely Faces (3:56)
• Open Doors (3:07)
• 666 (3:13)
• Waiting For The Rains (2:13)
• Secret Forest (4:53)
• Peace (3:14)

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