Amoeba Music

If you've ever dug into the Folk or Americana section of a dusty record store and excitedly expected to find an unplayed original of Tim Buckley's first few records for Elektra and found nothing there and then sadly turned away to ask the clerk to turn down their Budgie demos bootleg CDR (or you have a good imagination), then check out this forgotten Folk album by Michael P. Whalen. If you haven't, then you're lucky but still sample Mr. Whalen's 1968 album. It's an honest and unprententious mix of straightforward emotive (even embarrassing at times) Folk tunes, Tin-Pan Alley camp, sunshine orchestration and 60s naievete. For fans of Mr. Buckley, his son, any of the Wainwright clan or even Daniel Johnston.