About a month ago today Sue Randall (formerly Sue Eakin/sAkins) of Hendrickson Road House e-mailed me. She asked if I would like to have the honor of announcing to the West Coast that there is an official reissue of the HRH CD coming out later this month via Wooden Hill. In fact, you can already [...]
Almost 18 months ago I shared with you a rare private-press album by a group called Hendrickson Road House. A customer at the store turned me onto it a few years ago, and I had a difficult time finding a digitized version of the album until an anonymous Swan Fungus reader stepped up and donated his copy. With that donor's permission, I posted the album for download. It's one of those California psych-folk "holy grails" that generally fetches close to $1,000 on the open market. To my knowledge, it has never been reissued on CD. Four months after [...]
Another album from my list of the top ten private press records all music fans need to hear during their lives. Lovingly donated by an anonymous Swan Fungus reader. Two short reviews culled from the Acid Archives: "Mega-rare light psych item is one of the few in the genre in which the creative force is a woman, Sue Akins. This isn't really much like all of the Airplane-wannabe bands, either; Hendrickson Road House has a distinctive sound with mildly jazzy arrangements, subtle lead guitar, a tad of autoharp, smooth vocals and a definite late-night feel. The guitar playing [...]
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