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01. Dave Bixby - Drug Song
02. Dave Bixby - Free Indeed
03. Dave Bixby - I Have Seen Him
04. Dave Bixby - Mother
05. Dave Bixby - Morning Sun
06. Dave Bixby - Prayer
07. Dave Bixby - Lonely Faces
08. Dave Bixby - Open Doors
09. Dave Bixby - 666
10. Dave Bixby - Waiting for The Rains
11. Dave Bixby - Secret Forest
12. Dave Bixby - Peace
ARTIST
TITLE
Ode To Quetzalcoatl
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
GUESS 270LP GUESS 270LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/8/2025

Since its discovery in the late '90s, Dave Bixby's legendary $2000 private press album from 1969 is considered by all serious record collectors as the King in the loner/downer folk genre. First reissued by Guerssen back in 2009, the label now presents a new, improved edition with newly sourced/remastered sound and extras. After being involved in '60s Michigan folk and garage-rock bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, 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, Harbinger's Second Coming in just one month and a half. Assisted by fellow musician Brian MacInness, who played some guitar parts on the album, Dave recorded Quetzalcoatl using an echo-laden four track machine in a flat's living room. The sound is lo-fi and sparse: just acoustic guitars and some occasional harmonica and flute, added to Bixby's haunting, emotional vocals, spiritual lyrics and solid songwriting. The opening cut, the eerie and painful "Drug Song" sets the mood perfectly for the rest of the album which contains more tormented titles like "666," "Lonely faces," "Open Doors," and "Secret Forest." Featuring original artwork in hard cardboard sleeve. Restored and remastered in 24-bit domain at Grammy Award-winning Osiris Studio. Includes insert with detailed liner notes plus rare pictures and lyrics. Also features extra insert with the map/story of Quetzalcoatl by Dave Bixby, as well as download card.