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From The Desk Of Glenn Morrow: Psych To Folk: Fred Neil And Spotify

Glenn Morrow is a Hoboken, N.J., music treasure. He owns the influential 31-year-old Bar/None label (Yo La Tengo, They Might Be Giants, Feelies, dB’s, Of Montreal). His bands, such as the Individuals and “a,” have helped put the Mile Square City on the indie-rock map for equally as long. His latest project is Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help, which has a new self-titled album. Morrow will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.

Morrow: This is a massive playlist I’ve been building centered on the premise that Fred Neil was the catalyst for ushering folk music into the future, eventually spawning trippier, darker psychedelic folkies like CSNY and the Jefferson Airplane. Something about his attitude and the incredible power of his voice infused itself with many that followed: John Sebastian, Karen Dalton, Tim Hardin, the Youngbloods, Gram Parsons and many more. Just Google it! Neil is most famous for writing “Everybody’s Talkin,” but there’s so much more to his small body of work that includes such well-covered classics as “Little Bit of Rain,” “The Dolphins” and “Other Side Of This Life.”

They say Crosby, Stills & Nash almost called themselves the Neils, and the Band wrote “Stage Fright” about him. Someday it will all make sense and Fred Neil will get his due.