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The Holy Modal Rounders

90–150 BPMpsych folkfreak folkold time

1960s ramshackle old-time psych folk from the 1960s: sawing old-time fiddle, clawhammer banjo, loose flatpicked guitar, playful and raw in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

Style: Psychedelic Folk · Related styles: Freak Folk, Old-Time, Acid Folk, Baroque Folk

History

The Holy Modal Rounders took old-time string band music and bent it into something anarchic, funny and unmistakably stoned. Peter Stampfel on fiddle and Steve Weber on guitar met in New York's Lower East Side folk scene in the early 1960s and started playing traditional songs from the 1920s and 1930s with rewritten lyrics, loose timing and a cheerful disregard for folk-revival purity. Their early version of Hesitation Blues is often cited as one of the first uses of the word psychedelic in a song. They also played with the Fugs, the scene's most provocative band. Indian War Whoop on ESP-Disk in 1967 and The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders on Elektra in 1968 widened the sound with a rock rhythm section and studio oddities, and Bird Song from the Moray Eels album reached a wide audience through the film Easy Rider. The playwright Sam Shepard drummed with them in this period. Listeners recognise them by Stampfel's squeaky fiddle and yelping voice, Weber's ragged guitar and the sense of a hillbilly band that wandered into a very strange party.

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