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The Incredible String Band is tagged as: folk, psychedelic, psychedelic folk, folk rock, british folk

The Incredible String Band was a Scottish acoustic band who (in the words of one of their earlier songs) “way back in the 1960s” built a popular following among the British counter culture, and are considered psych folk music pioneers.
The Incredible String Band was formed in Edinburgh, UK in 1965 by folk musicians Robin Williamson, Mike Heron and Clive Palmer. They recorded their eponymous debut album in 1966, a lighthearted affair which revealed only the merest hint of the psychedelic adventures to come. After that, the band broke up. Palmer decamped for the Trail to Afghanistan and Williamson visited Morocco from where he returned laden with exotic instruments like the famous gimbri, which was, much later, eaten by rats. In 1967 Heron and Williamson recorded ‘The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion’, an audaciously eclectic mix of bookish folk music, hippy love songs and Eastern modalities. They soon became the-name-to-drop-in-interviews for luminaries such as Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, and in their annum mirabilis of 1968 they practically defined the hippy counterculture in the extraordinary albums ‘The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter’ and ‘Wee Tam and the Big Huge’. By then the group consisted of Williamson, Heron,...
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Top 10 The Incredible String Band Songs
First Girl I Loved
A Very Cellular Song
The Water Song
Painting Box
Witches Hat
Chinese White
The Minotaur's Song
Mercy I Cry City
Koeeaddi There
Waltz of the New Moon
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Top 10 The Incredible String Band Albums
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Circle Is Unbroken - Live And Studio 1967-1972
The Best of 1966-1970
The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
The Incredible String Band
Liquid Acrobat As Regard The Air
Nebulous Nearnesses
Wee Tam
The Big Huge
Incredible String Band
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