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Paul Parrish - The Forest Of My Mind (1968) • • • • • English Sparrows • Suzanne • Walking In The Forest (Of My Mind) • The Painter (Who Lives In The Cellar) • Dialogue Of Wind And Lover • You've Got To Hide (Your Love Away) • Tiny Alice • Morning Train • Something Of A Love Song • The White Birds (Return To Warm Seas) • Flowers In The Park • I Can't Help Myself • • • • • • Paul Parrish's debut is a bright, excellently produced LP filled with remarkable sunshine-dipped folk-pop songs along the lines of Donovan. Replete with flute, strings, and slight psychedelic effects, the album gets by on the strength of Parrish's songs, especially tracks like "English Sparrows," "Suzanne," and "Flowers in the Park." Each track is ripe with rainbow-colored imagery and the requisite amount of forest/meadow scenarios. You'd want to dismiss it as merely kitsch if Parrish's vocals weren't so sweet and persuasive, in the end, you're singing along and holding hands with whoever might be near. Even the covers of the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and the Holland-Dozier-Holland classic "I Can't Help Myself" fail to disappoint, and instead help put the album further into a detached yet pleasant, love-struck, and extremely wide-eyed version of psychedelic sunshine pop. (Jon Pruett, All Music Guide) http://www.redtelephone66.com/2010/06... • • • • • ... a Colorful Album Synopsis ~ http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.a... • • • • • 1960's psych sunshine pop folk 60s psychedelic 1960s psyche 60's psychedelia popsike fuzz popsyke pop-sike sixties 1968 68 '68 turn-on timpani tablas raga exotic dreamy candid fantasy mandolin flute sitar