Alicia Bay Laurel – Music from Living on the Earth [LP]

"In 1971, Alicia Bay Laurel’s NYT bestselling book, Living on the Earth, inspired a generation to move to the woods and live in harmony with nature. Here are the songs she wrote at the time she created her legendary book, at age 19, recorded solo at Sea-West Studios in Pahoa, Hawaii, 30 years later, with Rick Ascher Keefer, the engineer who produced the rock band, Heart's Dog & Butterfly album. Influenced by John Fahey, a family member, Alicia fingerpicks in a variety of guitar tunings, in styles somewhat like Celtic, country waltz, raga, delta blues, jazz waltz, bluegrass and old hymnal tunes, but not quite, because of the philosophical content of the lyrics, which reflect the revolutionary natural living guide for which the disc is named."

EM Records, 2015