Dave Bixby – Drug Song [Ode to Quetzalcoatl] 1969

Dave Bixby – Drug Song [Ode to Quetzalcoatl] 1969 “Highly rated by the few who have heard it, this tormented religious loner/downer folk LP has to rank as one of the ultimate incarnations of the genre. The opening “Drug Song” sets the tone perfectly as a supremely world-weary, echo-laden guy laments on how he screwed himself up with dope; “I’m no longer a person, I can’t even feel”. The resolution is (of course) Christ, who is serenaded in the following tracks, although the despairing, suicidal mood is strangely unchanged. Salvation or none, it seems most things are still a mess for Bixby”. “After being involved in 60s Michigan folk and garage-rock bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, Dave 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, Harbingers Second Coming in just one month and a half. Ode to Quetzalcoatl is considered the best loner folk album of the era and has been championed for years by such luminaries as musicologist Paul Major and Xian rock archivist Ken Scott. Harbingers Second Coming was recently described by influential underground DJ Tony Coulter as almost scary good. Shrouded in mystery, the legend of Dave Bixby has grown in the recent years. Many collectors had tried to found him in search of information and original Lps with no avail. In 2006, a young …