ARTIST: Earth Opera
TITLE: Earth Opera
YEAR RELEASED: 1968
CHART ACTION: None
SINGLES: Close Your Eyes and Shut the Door
OTHER SONGS YOU MAY KNOW: Oh, no
LINEUP: Peter Rowan, David Grisman, Bill Stevenson, Paul Dillon, Billy Mundi, John Nagy
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: It’s all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap, so to speak.

SOME WORDS, PHRASES AND CLAUSES ABOUT THIS RECORD: I never would have known this album exited until I read the great book about the early, independent days of Elektra Records. I think I paid actual cash money for this instead of finding it in the library. Oof.

Rowan and Grisman are more well-known now in the bluegrass music world. This ain’t bluegrass. It’s mellow, psychedelic, meandering, hippy-dippy stuff. Oh, it’s not easy to listen to without substances.

Unless, unless you really like psychedelic folkie mellow stuff, don’t go near it. To me, it’s a baaaad trip, man. (To be honest, I heard one kind of neat psychedelic guitar part; I hope it wasn’t a mirage).

NOTES & MINUTIAE: Rowan and Grisman collaborated off and on for years.

IS THERE A DELUXE VERSION: No

GRADE: C-: Keep away from me, hippies!

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