This is an interesting crossover between folk music and psychedelia, especially on the title track which genuinely sounds like Bob Dylan floating through the universe on a particularly freaky acid trip. This is followed by an oddly out of place cover of a traditional Scottish folk song - I’m guessing that they don’t have much purple heather in San Francisco, but then we are back to the weirdness with a song about ufos and little green men.
The highlight is probably the best known track here, the soaring Eight Miles High which has echos of some of the Beatles experiments with Eastern mysticism that were in the zeitgeist at the time. Apparently many radio stations refused to play it as they thought it was a drugs reference. Wonder where they got that idea from?
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