Goodbye and Hello by Tim Buckley

I’d always assumed that Tim Buckley was a slightly fay folk musician, but this album opens with a menacing anti-war song about the horrors of Vietnam. It’s followed by a series of increasingly psychedelic pieces, some in the folk tradition but others definitely edging into heavier rock. The second track has a sinister fairground calliope in the background and a later track obliquely references the way he abandoned his pregnant wife and divorced her just after his baby (Jeff) was born (“I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain”). Wow. Not much peace and bloody love there.

This is an album very much of its time, and that time is 1967 just after Sgt Pepper’s changed everything. There are lots of dark edges here and a sense of bad times to come. 

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