Tunes as ‘ludes: 35 Sunshine Psych-ish Tunes Chasing Away The Late Winter Blues

Welcome from the outpost of beware Ides and March and such. Herein, seemingly every year this is when humanity loses it’s resolve after promising to do better during the calendar new year. Here’s where we start craving a break. Typically the weather outside is still bleak despite what our rodent friend told us 3 weeks ago. Why does the shortest Calendar month seem so long.

We might sip and toke a bit more at our preferred comforts at hand at this time of year too. For me, it’s a season where I look to a lot of sunshine pop and vaguely psychedelic soul to push me through to Spring Equinox, a bit more sun, and the anticipation of summer. Honestly there’s a host of material in this vein, as it rose with Pop & R&B seeking “Eastern” influences as early as 1965. Realistically, these forays into folkier, earthier, more exotic and extended freak outs lasted to at least 1972. So it’s a pretty fertile lake to fish for music from.

So enough with the Pisces season references, and onto you and me sitting back, knowing that if we just go with the flow, everything is gonna turn out fine. Despite the still, increasingly absurd, toxic and ridiculous environment around us. Same could be said for the society in which these tunes soothed addled brains, you.

Peace, Love and Hairgrease.