"Most people have not understood when we explained that no one has ever played music like us before," wrote Peter Stampfel in the liner notes to the first Holy Modal Rounders LP (1964). The Rounders were playing a lot of old-timey-sounding material in the style of the rural 1920s, and Stampfel's point was that, even if he was hearing the young old-timey fiddlers of the '20s as goofballs, experimentalists, and visionaries like himself, he and his mid-'60s ilk had a different vision, and a larger world in which to experiment, a different neighborhood to break out of. So the music was... More >>>