Robert Lester Folsom

Robert Lester Folsom is a songwriter from the Jacksonville area of north Florida. His first album was a private pressing, made in small numbers and sold close to home, and it spent decades passing between collectors of obscure American records before Anthology Recordings gave it a proper reissue in 2010.

The songs are soft-focus folk rock with a psychedelic haze: acoustic guitars, gentle electric leads and a light, unhurried vocal, recorded with the warmth and slight looseness of a homemade session. The reissue brought him back to writing and performing for a new audience.