In 1979 he packed up his unsold albums, moved to Jacksonville with his first wife (he's since remarried), worked in a record store, then started a business. His music, and dreams, were on the shelf. Then... suddenly... they weren't.
Robert Lester Folsom's musical life finds its center in a battery-operated, two-track Sears Roebuck reel-to-reel tape recorder that he still has, some 50 years later. It's what gave him the chance in the early 1970s to find his identity in small-town South Georgia, to bring to life the songs that bloomed in his head and to possibly impress girls.
"Music and Dreams" got some regional airplay and sold some copies. But then it all just kind of fizzled out. Gigs were hard to find if you were doing your own songs, and disco was coming on strong, making his acoustic tunes fall out of fashion. Keith Abrahamsson, co-founder of Mexican Summer, says there are many, many independently made albums out there, but few are as satisfying as Folsom's. “I think that’s a huge difference. When you listen to 'Music and Dreams,' the songcraft is incredible. He’s a real writer, and I think he is really the cream of the crop when it comes to that world of more private, scarce, left-of-center records.
The place was packed, standing-room only. The crowd was happy. And people were singing along with him, really singing, to those songs he'd written and recorded so long ago.Folsom, who goes by his middle name Lester, was born on Moody Air Force Base and grew up in Adel, which is right on Interstate 745. Its name is said to have come from the middle letters in Philadelphia, though that's not as interesting as the fact that it was once known by the aptly descriptive name of Puddleville.
They recorded in living rooms, bedrooms and barns. They even recorded in an enclosed hog parlor next to I-75. Folsom liked the effect of the hog parlor: the cars sounding like spaceships as they went by, the echo on tin roof and concrete.
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