THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS, Prestige Folklore 14031, orig.

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Prestige Folklore 14031, “The Holy Modal Rounders” from 1964. Peter Stampfel, vocals, banjo and fiddle; Steve Weber, vocals and guitar. Original green banjo-label vinyl plays at NM with a slight background hiss that is probably original; it can’t be heard at a distance. The jacket has strong seams all around with slight color loss on parts of top and bottom. There is slight corner wear and ringwear, nothing much. Jacket back is basically clean with age toning; there are no writing or stamps. Songs are “Blues in the Bottle”, “Give the Fiddler a Dram”, “The Cuckoo”, “Euphoria”, “Long John”, “Hesitation Blues”, “Hey Hey Baby”, “Reuben’s Train”, “Mister Spaceman”, “Moving Day”, “Better Things for You”, “Same Old Man”, “Hop High Ladies”, and “Bound to Lose”. Far and away, their best album. Prestige Folklore was one of the great imprints from the heady days of the folk revival; this one of a sequenced set of Prestige folk LPs listed this week. Shipping is $4.00 media mail, $8.00 priority mail within the continental U.S.; $16.00 regular airmail to the U.K., Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. A few record labels such as Folkways may be slightly more expensive to ship overseas. Additional LPs in a single package are $1.00 additional within U.S. and Canada, $2.00 elsewhere. For overseas shipments, registered mail is strongly recommended at $11.75 extra. Many old records are practically antiques and should be treated that way. This LP will be packaged with the record inside an inner sleeve but outside the jacket; both are placed inside a sealed outer sleeve and shipped inside a special oversized handcrafted mailer with padding on all sides. It is designed thick enough not to be bent in transit and strong enough to withstand a drop from a second-story window. More than two LPs together may be mailed inside a heavy Bags Unlimited pizza-style box. Your LP should arrive in the same condition as on the day it was shipped. All used LPs are play-graded on a VPI turntable with Audioquest tonearm and Grado cartridge.