Staff Picks: Bill Stone - Stone

For fans of: Unheard Loner Folk

What they're saying: From the Backseat Mafia blog: “Drag City have dug deep, and struck fortune. Bill Stone’s album rings down the decades and you have to say, overall? It’s really sweet. Sure it’s a little rough ’round the edges… And that rough ‘n’ readiness is absolutely part of the charm; you can hear these songs live and breathe, the actual moment of their realisation, thrown pots and amorous cats and the rain at the window.” And from Folk Radio UK: “sounding like something from lo-fi loner Mark Fry, or Pearls Before Swine in their more contemplative moments. Minimal folk from the psychedelic era, beamed straight into your 21st-century device!”

What we say: Originally released in very small numbers in Maine c. 1969, this reissue from Drag City just came out and it quite simply rules. I had only heard one song from it before it came out (I was saving myself to listen to the entire record once it came out and I got to take it home) but the song I had heard, "Charlotte's Town", was enough to convince me the rest would be fantastic and it is! - K