Music and Dreams: Double Vinyl LP

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Label: Anthology
Release Date: 16th October

Sometimes the work of an artist needs a little time in the musical attic to age, spend some time gaining some patina, some charm and finding itself at a time when it'll be appreciated for the psychedelic, sun-kissed, soft folk pop classic it now finds itself as. Robert Lester Folsom's 'Music & Dreams' finds itself getting a 50th Anniversary reissue, all lovingly preserved with a disc of extras. 

Some albums land like lightning; others slowly reshape the
world around them. Originally self-released in 1976, Robert
Lester Folsom’s ‘Music and Dreams’ has travelled from hand-to-
hand obscurity to cult classic status, finding new generations of
listeners and renewed acclaim.

For its golden jubilee, Anthology Recordings now present ‘Music
and Dreams: 50th Anniversary Edition’, an LP that pairs a
remastered treatment of the album alongside the original reel-
to-reel demos, adding new contour and colour to music that
continues to find an audience in its own time. Never before
released, the demo material has been miraculously sourced by
Folsom’s longtime collaborator Don Fleming and mastered by
Grammy-nominated engineer Jessica Thompson.

The connection this music has forged with younger audiences
isn’t so surprising. Folsom wrote these songs while he was still
working through the same questions and uncertainties that
come with growing up and falling in love, albeit from the
perspective of a music-obsessed small-town visionary tucked
away in rural Southern Georgia.

Alongside an early and undying loyalty to The Beatles,
songwriters like Hank Williams, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, &
Nash and Joni Mitchell gradually broadened Folsom’s sense of
what a song could do.

Music and Dreams
Ginger
Biding My Time
April Suzanne
Weeping Willow Tree
My Stove’s on Fire
Spanish Lady
Brown Eyed Lady With Blonde Hair
A New Way
Show Me to the Window
Jericho
Please Don’t Forget Me
Music and Dreams (Demo Version)
Ginger (Demo Version)
Biding My Time (Demo Version)
April Suzanne (Demo Version)
Weeping Willow Tree (Demo Version)
Spanish Lady (Demo Version)
Brown Eyed Lady With Blonde Hair (Demo Version)
A New Way (Demo Version)
Show Me to the Window (Demo Version)
Jericho (Demo Version)