Culpeper's Orchard. 1971 Denmark

One of the legendary albums when I started collecting, Culpeper's Orchard's debut sits at the border of progressive rock, folk, and hard rock. Its reputation is probably better than it subjectively is, but it's still an excellent work throughout. 'Your Song and Mine' and 'Mountain Music Part 1' are superbly crafted while many of the other five minute plus tracks are quite accomplished as well. The shorter songs are mostly pure folk. It's an "early days" type of release, so its prog quotient is relatively low, and there's plenty of leftover psychedelic jamming going on here. Sometimes an album goes under the heading of simply "good music". That's Culpeper's Orchard.

Ownership: LP: 1971 Polydor. Thin gatefold. Online acquisition (2005). 

As noted, this was one of the "biggees" when I started collecting so owning an original felt like I really accomplished something lol. It wasn't inexpensive back then either, though I did get a pretty good deal on it. My first copy was a cheap single sleeve bootleg LP (1988) because that was the only option for me back then. I replaced that as soon as I could with the CD. I debated keeping that CD on this last listen, but this is the kind of album I enjoy hearing solely on the turntable. It can go.

1988; 2009; 9/22/23 (new entry)