Interview with Jai Ram Ransom
Jai Ram Ransom or Jim Ransom as he was known back in the ‘60s and ‘70s started his musical career at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village, playing alongside artists like Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs. Ho...
21 Apr 201652min
Episode 8 - Songs from Biscuit City
Biscuit City was a folk and bluegrass label based on the 17th avenue in Denver, Colorado. The label was founded by the two New Yorkers Jim Ransom (now Jai Ram Ransom) and Laura Benson and became a piv...
17 Apr 201650min
Episode 7, Acid Cowboys & Highway Hippies, Rural Psychedelia and Singer-Songwriters
The topic of today, rural aspects of psychedelic and singer-songwriter music, is very broad and here we loosely define rural as music that mediate a “countryside” feeling by drawing inspiration from r...
22 Mar 20161h 3min
Episode 6 - Suicide On the Hillside, Downer Tunes From the '60s and '70s Underground
In this episode we’re going to focus on the downer/loner folk and singer-songwriter music of the late ‘60s to early ‘70s with an emphasis on the downer aspects. Therefore, we've tried to pick the most...
28 Sep 20151h 1min
Episode 5 - Melodic Midwest, Late '70s Psych From the Lowland States
It’s time again to return to Midwestern United States with a second episode of local/private press psychedelia from this region. We have already dedicated one episode in season 1 to Midwest, in which ...
13 Sep 201554min
Episode 4 - Dreamers, Unicorns and Tao-riders, Psychedelia of the 1980s
It's fascinating how the psychedelic ‘60s lingered on in the private/local recordings and how some artists continued on the psychedelic path long after mainstream popular culture had lost its interest...
24 Mai 201553min
Interview with Rich Haupt - Part 2
In this second and last part of our interview with Rich Haupt we continue to listen to some of the mind expanding releases of Rockadelic Records, and just as in the first part the music here include c...
10 Mai 201557min
Interview with Rich Haupt - Part 1
This is the first part of an interview with Rich Haupt from Rockadelic Records, one of the earliest and most important labels for reissuing and releasing unreleased material of '60s and '70s psychedel...
26 Apr 20151h 8min
