Whether as an artist, mentor, and/or small-time record label entrepreneur, was continuing to make some interesting -based music in the late '60s and 1970s, though little of it is familiar to anyone but devoted collectors. collects 20 tracks from the late '60s through the middle '70s that he was involved with, though only about half are billed to either or . It's erratic, eccentric, but generally refreshing , reflecting the trends of the era, but more idiosyncratic than much of the stuff being put out via more high-profile outlets. Certainly the best track by a country mile is ' a spaced-out that owes a lot to contemporary hippie as well, and was covered by for a hit in 1977. fans will be excited by the inclusion of a couple of previously unreleased cuts from the same era, but actually those are much more ordinary, with sounding a little like as sung by . It's very unlikely you'll have heard of anyone else but the on the disc's artist list, except maybe . But there's credible by on and sound like they should be singing backup for sides on There's some pretty humorous, sly late-'60s himself comes through with some top-drawer jazzy ~ Richie Unterberger