ESPERS THE WEED TREE Folk Psych Stunning Sound Quality RARE VINYL

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The Weed Tree is the second album from Espers, released on Locust Music in 2005. It was, for the most part, a covers album, although it did feature the original song "Dead King". The artists covered were The Durutti Column, Nico, Michael Hurley and Blue Öyster Cult. It also included two traditional songs drawing influence from recordings by Bert Jansch and The Famous Jug Band. The songs were performed in the psych-folk style of the band.

Flaming Telepaths is one song that has a electric psych guitar lead in it that is amazing. Very tripped out vibe.

Espers is a psych folk band from Philadelphia that is part of the emerging indie folk scene. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena Espvall and Chris Smith. Their music is reminiscent of late-sixties British folk as well as many contemporary folk acts such as Six Organs of Admittance. Most of the band's members have also featured on recordings by a number of other folk artists such as Nick Castro and Vashti Bunyan and as a result have become an important part of the psych-folk revival.

They released their self-titled debut in 2004 on Locust Music and followed that with an album of cover songs, The Weed Tree, in 2005. This release featured the band's versions of songs by artists as diverse as Nico, The Durutti Column and Blue Öyster Cult.

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Track listing[edit]

1. "Rosemary Lane" (traditional; arrangement influenced by Bert Jansch)
2. "Tomorrow" (Vini Reilly; originally by The Durutti Column)
3. "Black Is the Color" (traditional; arrangement influenced by The Famous Jug Band)
4. "Afraid" (Nico)
5. "Blue Mountain" (Michael Hurley)
6. "Flaming Telepaths" (Albert Bouchard, Eric Bloom, Sandy Pearlman, Buck Dharma; originally by Blue Öyster Cult)
7. "Dead King" (Espers original)