The Incredible String Band: Once Again, Is It Folk?
Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 16 March 1968
WHEN poet Pete Brown, lyric-writer for the Cream, heard the new Incredible String Band LP, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, he said: "That's what the Rolling Stones have been trying to do."
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