Relatively Clean Rivers – Relatively Clean Rivers (LP)

Originally released in 1976, this latter-day psychedelic cult classic was the brainchild of the enigmatic Phil Pearlman, also responsible for rarities by Beat Of The Earth and ElectronicHole. Bearing distinct traces of Neil Young’s and the Grateful Dead’s music, it’s a mellow collection of deceptively simple songs that seem to have emanated from the Californian desert itself. Back in the day this would be called ‘rural psychedelia’, nowadays ‘cosmic Americana’ probably sounds more ‘fashionable’!