To follow on from my previous two posts, I thought I'd post what I consider to be country folk. I bought a double album by "Hearts and Flowers" about ten odd years ago and loved it as much as I still do now. It is a unique mixture of country, folk and psychedelia (Ode to a Tin Angel is the stand-out psychedelic track) with a whole bunch of beautiful, sincere hippy sentiment thrown in. One thing that really intrigued me was that they did a cover version of the song "Two Little Boys" by the Australian artist Rolf Harris, which seems to me quite an obscure thing for a folk country band from the U.S. to consider (or even the fact that they heard of it to begin with). The beginning poem of my double album sets a nice tone for what's to come:
In this time of ours
We wonder if an end to hate we'll ever see
As we stand and hold in our hands
The unrhymed lines of our destiny
We face a race
We must rest before we run
Now is the time for hearts and flowers
And golden hours beneath the sun
There is a connection to the Eagles with this band but I forget what it is exactly. I vaguely recall that a couple of the members went on to form said band (It is written in my album liner notes but I'm not at home at the moment). There is little of the sound of The Eagles in Hearts and Flowers, however. This is just down-to-earth, simple, straightforward, organic music to forget about the city and allow whatever trace of innocence there is left residing inside you to bubble to the surface and make you feel good.
In this time of ours
We wonder if an end to hate we'll ever see
As we stand and hold in our hands
The unrhymed lines of our destiny
We face a race
We must rest before we run
Now is the time for hearts and flowers
And golden hours beneath the sun
There is a connection to the Eagles with this band but I forget what it is exactly. I vaguely recall that a couple of the members went on to form said band (It is written in my album liner notes but I'm not at home at the moment). There is little of the sound of The Eagles in Hearts and Flowers, however. This is just down-to-earth, simple, straightforward, organic music to forget about the city and allow whatever trace of innocence there is left residing inside you to bubble to the surface and make you feel good.