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Jorma Kaukonen Those with an interest in 'sixties West Coast music will certainly know the legendary San Francisco based Jefferson Airplane. 1967 saw the release of what remains perhaps the pinnacle of all psychedelic albums in 'Surrealistic Pillow'. With its ingenious blend of folk, blues, rock and snaky guitar lines, not to mention two absolute classics in Somebody To Love and the equally anthemic White Rabbit, the album and its musicians led the vanguard in creating a uniquely American sound. The 'Airplane were also the only major band to play Monterey Festival, basically headline Woodstock and support the Rolling Stones in the bloodbath that was the Altamont Festival later in the seminal year of 1969. |
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Alela Diane ploughs the same territory as fellow tragic songbird Marissa Nadler, a lonely American Gothic landscape that exists outside of time. But where Nadler's gossamer voice imbues her music with a haunting beauty, Diane is affecting because of its slight raggedness not too far removed from Trailer Bride's Melissa Swingle, and it is from this instrument that the album derives its beauty. Ornamented by little other than a guitar and occasionally a harmonising voice, it's a sparseness that evokes a rural setting far from the jolly maritime theme that the album's title and artwork suggest.
