The totally unknown Sally Eaton was a:
Singer, actress and priestess, born 1947 in Warren, Pennsylvania, USA.
Lovely!
As you can very well expect, this is pretty much standard early 70s ssw stuff with the full orchestral arrangements (a trend we can blame George Martin for starting but here done by a George Brackman), lovely, earnest songs with naive lyrics and hippie-like insistences, etc.
But the song called This time next autumn (presumably composed by her) really grew on me, it could be something you'd hear on an album from the songbirds who got really famous, like Judy Collins, Joan Baez, etc.
Note that the discogs description of the record as 'psych rock' is a bit silly, although by now we have come to expect that term will be applied to just about any kind of music fashioned in that era, and then long after that too.
Another track, called Beads:
That one reminds me of my old favourite, beautiful Nico, of Velvet Underground / Andy Warhol fame.
May she rest in peace. (She died in a tragic bicycle accident on Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain, on 18 July 1988, at 49 years of age.)
source https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2025/05/sally-eatons-farewell-american-tour.html
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