Even though the #buzz review always wants us to be attentive to every hint of experimentalism, for once we have this album by Greg Ashley, a Californian singer-songwriter already known for being the leader of the Gris Gris, and an album that is certainly more conventional than usual. But equally very, very beautiful. Enjoy. Thank you @ALFAMA. Happy Sunday.

Greg Ashley - Medicine Fuck Dream (Birdman Records, 2003)

Greg Ashley (Oakland, California) is one of the most active names in the California neo-psych scene for at least fifteen years. Aside from participating in projects like Mirrors, Strate Coats, Sir Lord Von Raven, and especially the Gris Gris, with whom he recorded two studio albums ("The Gris Gris" and "For The Season"), Greg Ashley is also a producer (he has his own recording studio in Oakland: the Creamery Analog Recording Studios) and has started a fruitful solo album production since 2003. The first album is this "Medicine Fuck Dream," recorded between 2001 and 2002 in Texas and California, and originally released on Birdman Records, then reissued in 2013. Greg Ashley, a sensitive singer-songwriter inspired by the folk psychedelia of the sixties, here is ironic, irreverent, nostalgic, visionary, and offers us ten songs that look to the USA tradition ("Lost Highway," "I Said These Are Lonely Days," "Apple Pie And Genocide") and especially to the Southern California scene of the sixties ("She," "Legs Coca Cola," "Deep Deep Down," "Mona Rider"). The result is an album that should be listened to with closed eyes, dreaming of Big Sur California as narrated by Jack Kerouac. A myth that never ends.

Greg ashley - Medicine Fuck Dream

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