Since its discovery in the late 90s, Dave Bixby’s legendary 1969 private press album “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” is consideredby record collectors as a highlight in the loner/downer folk genre and has been sold for over $2000.

After being involved in the 1960s Michigan folk and garage-rockscene with bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, Bixby started playing acoustic guitar andexperimenting with LSD. After a year of drug abuse he feltbroken. Starting a soul-searching, spiritual journey, he wrote “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” and most of the material for his secondalbum, 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 a 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 & 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”, “Secret forest”... Never an acoustic folk album sounded so intense as this.

On this tour, Bixby will perform both songs from “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” and Harbinger’s “Second Coming”.