The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders flac album

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. Their unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a cult-like following from the late 1960s into the 1970s. For a time the group also included the playwright and actor Sam Shepard.

The Rounders started out in the same early-'60s New York folk and jug scene as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, and had crossed paths numerous times. Stampfel and Weber will be eternally remembered for "Bird Song," which was prominently featured in both the movie Easy Rider and its soundtrack. It's also the opening cut on The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders, an album way beyond anything else considered to be "far out" at the time. Following the disc's release, Stampfel said this album reflected producer Frazier Mohawk's musical taste more so than the band's. The Modal duo are assisted, in this case, by playwright Sam Shepard on tambourine, Richard Tyler on piano, and John Wesley Annis on bass and drums. As good luck would have it, the Water label unleashed this CD on the public for the first time in 2002 with two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Absolutely essential.

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No track bandings on side A; same on side B except that track 7, "The Pledge", is banded. Matrix, Runout (Runout side A, hand-etched): EKS-74026-A-AL.

This album has an average beat per minute of 128 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 76/207 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders. Bird Song, One Will Do for Now. Mobile Line, The Duji Song. Recent albums by The Holy Modal Rounders. I Make a Wish for a Potato.