BRIAN GLADSTONE – PSYCHEDELIC PHOLK PSONGS – SILVERWOLF RECORDS – Canada’s Brian Gladstone is doing some amazing finger picking on this funny, inventive album—maybe the best folk album that I ever heard. I grew up on folk music, and Brian Gladstone is in that room with the big boys like Woody himself. Brian Gladstone’s music comes across in rich, resonating tones found on pre-disco records of so-called classic rock. On track 2, “Save the Wolverine”, the mood is haunting in a WORKING MAN’S DEAD/merry prankster kind of way. “I Like Me” is a Beatleish rag that is so entertainingly funny. It is very easy while listening to PSYCHEDELIC PHOLK PSONGS to slip into a late-’60s mode. I love this album, and you will, too, if you have the slightest interest in Americana, folk, or porch music.
-H. Barry Zimmerman
