Ode To Quetzalcoatl
Confessional record, considered by many the representative par excellence of loner folk sub-genre

Ode To Quetzalcoatl

Dave Bixby

€ 30,95
  • LP
Label
Guerrsen
Expected release
15 August 2025
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Description

Since its discovery in the late 90s, Dave Bixby's legendary $2000 private press album from 1969 is considered by all serious record collectors as the King in the loner/downer folk genre. First reissued by us back in 2009, here's a new, improved edition with newly sourced / remastered sound and extras.

After being involved in 60s Michigan folk and garage-rock bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, Bixby started playing acoustic guitar and experimenting with LSD. After a year of drug abuse he felt broken. Starting a soul-searching, spiritual journey, he wrote "Ode to Quetzalcoatl" and most of the material for his second album, Harbinger's "Second Coming" in just one month and a half.

Assisted by fellow musician Brian MacInness, who played some guitar parts on the album, Dave recorded "Quetzalcoatl" using a echo-laden four track machine in a flat's living room. The sound is lo-fi and sparse: just acoustic guitars and some occasional harmonica & flute, added to Bixby's haunting, emotional vocals, spiritual lyrics and solid songwriting.

The opening cut, the eerie and painful "Drug Song" sets the mood perfectly for the rest of the album which contains more tormented titles like "666" , "Lonely faces", Open Doors", "Secret forest"…


*Original artwork in hard cardboard sleeve
*Restored and remastered in 24-bit domain at Grammy Award-winning Osiris Studio
*Insert with detailed liner notes plus rare pictures and lyrics
*Extra insert with the map/story of Quetzalcoatl by Dave Bixby
*Download card

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Drug Song
  • 2.Free Indeed
  • 3.I Have Seen Him
  • 4.Mother
  • 5.Morning Sun
  • 6.Prayer

B

  • 1.Lonely Faces
  • 2.Open Doors
  • 3.666
  • 4.Waiting For The Rains
  • 5.Secret Forest
  • 6.Peace

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