Tim Buckley - Goodbye & Hello

I've been meaning to give tim buckley a serious listen for a long time. As a huge HUGE fan of son Jeff's music i thought i owed to the man who brought him into this world to have a listen to his own creations. I decided to start with his second album Goodbye & Hello released in 1967 and embracing the neo-folk style of the time, with lyrics touching on war, politics and relationships. It's a tough listen at times, a hard voice to get used to, part troubadour, part screaming banshee, reminiscint of Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick. It starts to grate after a while, as does the experimentations with a plethora of different instruments and background noises, often pushing past the vocals and just becoming plain annoying. I'm not dismissing it outright, it was an amazingly bold album to be released at that time, one of the early experimentations with psychedelic rock. It has lit a flame of interest and i will be checking out the rest of his work