Locust Media
Gene Estribou & Jean-Paul Pickens : intensifications (US,196?)***°'
Hard to understand this release went relatively unnoticed until now. For it contains beautiful and masterly raga-folk, and no-blues improvised music played by guitar (Gene Estribou) & banjo (Jean-Paul Pickens)....
The only info I know from both guitarists comes from the Locust Music label : “Gene Estribou famously recorded the Grateful Dead's second studio sessions & released their first 45 single in 1965. Pickens was one of San Francisco 's legendary 'Diggers' and a knockout banjoist with poet David Meltzer 's folk rock outfit Serpent Power."
