John Jacob Niles
An Evening With John Jacob Niles
Empire Musicwerks

The late Mr. Niles may not have technically hailed from another planet, but the sound of his swooping, trilling voice is certainly an otherworldly phenomenon. This is another amazing reissue of stuff from the pre-Dylan folkie fifties - apparently a time when folk music was anything but staid. As I may have pointed out before, Niles is nothing if not the progenitor of "freak folk" - this stuff easily out-weirds Devendra, Joanna and all the other legitimate nutballs on the current scene.