Each track is ripe with rainbow-colored imagery and the requisite amount of forest/meadow scenarios. You'd want to dismiss it as merely kitsch if Parrish's vocals weren't so sweet and persuasive - in the end, you're singing along and holding hands with whoever might be near

A1. English Sparrows. Written-By – Paul Parrish. A3. Walking In The Forest (Of My Mind). A4. The Painter (Who Lives In The Cellar). A5. Dialogue Of Wind And Lover.

Sounding like an American Donovan, Paul Parrish burst onto the scene in 1968 with this ambitiously produced gem of a record filled with psychedelic strings, flutes, tympani, and sunshine dipped effects. Wide-eyed rainbow-colored imagery abounds. THE FOREST OF MY MIND was produced in Detroit in 1968 by Clay McMurray, who is best known for producing Spyder Turner's rendition of BB King's 'Stand By Me,' and Gladys Knight & the Pip's 'If I Were Your Woman. the (mostly) R&B producer made one of the finest psychedelic pop records ever. 13. Walking in the Forest (Of My Mind) (Mono 45). 14. The White Birds (Return to Warm Seas) (Mono 45). Product details. I love his album Songs, but was disappointed with this. Maybe it's just my taste.

Michigan native Paul Parrish began singing in Detroit coffeehouses and absorbed many of the better influences of the British Invasion. Vocally, he’s close to Donovan’s gentleness, while lyrically he was influenced by early psychedelia, crafting attractive songs that stand among the better efforts of the era. Meanwhile, Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey’s arrangements for this 1968 album evoke Beatles-like experimentation by using lush string and flute lines to colour the material in ways that Parrish probably never envisaged  . This reissue adds two mono mixes of Walking In The Forest (Of My Mind) and The White Birds (Return To The Warm Seas), restore equilibrium after the jarring Motown cover.

The Forest of My Mind, recorded at Tera Shirma Studios, may be one of the least Detroit-esque albums to come out of the Motor City as it by and large steered clear of R&B. On the twelve melodic nuggets on The Forest of My Mind, the timbre of Parrish’s voice most closely recalls Micky Dolenz’s, though there are slight echoes of Paul Simon and others throughout. The recurring pastoral imagery gives the whole project the feel of a song cycle. Taut guitar lines intertwine with atmospheric, plucked strings and spacey flute (think Charles Lloyd on Feel Flows and you get the idea) on English Sparrows, the album’s evocative opening track. The catchy title track is even funkier.

Paul Parrish - The Forest Of My Mind. 1967 Pretty cool sixties folk-pop-psych with a lot of psychedelic flavor. Very sixties sounding. Mostly an enjoyable listen but some songs are too pop of soft for my tastes. The cover of sugar pie honey bunch is completely disposable. I prefer the more upbeat or psyched out tracks here. Reminds me of Donovan around the same time and Norman Greenbaum a bit. His voice also sounds like country joe on some tunes. Featuring some very stunning psychedelic cover art.

The Forest of My Mind. Producer: Clay McMurray. Main genre: Rock, Pop. Was sampled in 1 song. Multiple Elements Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B. Almond Rocha by Ugly Duckling (2004).

Listen to The Mind's I from The Krista Parrish Trio's Playing With Pendulums for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Playing With Pendulums. The Krista Parrish Trio.