Buzzy Linhart Loves You: Classic Recordings

BUZZY LINHART

Razor & Tie

One of rock's great unearthed treasures, Buzzy Linhart hung around the periphery of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early '60s, and by the turn of the decade had developed his own idiosyncratic, watery psychedelic style that incorporated jazz, raga, blues and acid rock. A soulful singer and thorny guitar slinger, he was responsible for two of the '70s terrific cult songs: "Talk About a Morning" and "That's the Bag I'm In." This comp, released in '01, contains 15 Linhart tunes.

This article appears in Jun 7-13, 2006.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...