Jugs, Washboards, Kazoos and Orange County

Euphoria when your mind starts reeling and a-rocking Your inside voice starts a-squeaking and a-squawking

floating around on a belladonna cloud, singing Euphoria

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What a song! and only one group could have done it — that’s right, the Holy Modal Rounders, folk music’s answer to the Godz (gee, I guess Iggy wasn’t the first). The Rounder’s — what a fucking great group, I mean jesus Christ. Like their first album on ESP came out in 1963 or something like that, and they’re already using psychedelic and blow your mind, all those words that our culture would use to exclusion.

Don’t come in a bottle, don’t come in a can

What every woman wants from every man

Hey hey baby I love my good cocaine

Slightly ahead of their time, they merely influenced the whole, people like Kweskin in Boston and the Even Dozen Jug Band in New York. It was about this time that urban folkies appeared. Urban because they were from the city, urban because they had grown up listening to rock and roll. And rock and roll was the plaintive cry of the oppressed tenement dweller.