Anthology Recordings has released a 50th anniversary edition of Robert Lester Folsom’s 1976 album Music and Dreams, featuring remastered audio, 10 previously unheard demos from Folsom’s original reel-to-reel recordings, and new covers by Beach House and Hannah Cohen.
Folsom self-recorded and released the album in 1976 out of Atlanta’s LeFevre Studios, pressing 1,000 LP copies along with 45s and eight-track tapes, but lacked the resources to promote it nationally. The record found a cult following after Anthology Recordings first reissued it in 2010.
Folsom is wrapping a 23-date U.S. tour this weekend that included a show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, which the label says sold out. He is scheduled to play his first overseas dates next month in the U.K. and Europe, including an appearance at Pitchfork Festival London.
Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Elijah Wolf // Anthology Recordings, mexicansummer.com.