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: 1971 Polydor (LP). Thin gatefold. Acquired in 2005.
First copy: bootleg (LP). Acquired in 1988 and long gone.
1988; 2009; 9/22/23 (review)
Previously owned: Second Sight
9/22/23 (new entry)
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