Drums of Passion seems ahead of its time in what you would have found on an album, but I'm sure that the music on the album was commonplace in areas of Africa some tens/hundreds of years before.
Blind Joe Death does seem slightly ahead. While there doesn't seem to be much (if any) singing, I can picture modern vocals over the top of some tracks. It even has vague similarities with some REM stuff from 20-30 years later.
With this being a folk style piece, were there any British/American folk artists who recorded songs with acoustic instruments and vocals? I've heared some stuff from recently that has sounded very like some 40+ year old recordings, and know that folk music has been around for some time prior to the 60s, but was it in the same form as after this period?
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