East Coast guitarist Peter Walker is one of the more obscure artists from the late '60s and early '70s American instrumental folk underground. Walker participated in the Cambridge and Greenwich Village folk scenes before establishing himself as a fine guitarist in his own right. Like Sandy Bull and John Fahey, he also studied the classical music of India, in his own case with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. Walker hung with and played with an assortment of legendary characters, including Lowell George, Fred Neil, Karen Dalton, Tim Hardin, and Joan Baez His bio says he was also the music director for Timothy Leary's acid celebrations. Along the way, Walker issued less than a handful of albums, most of them long out of print, though Tompkins Square did issue a tribute record in 2006 -- with four new cuts by Walker -- along with a new studio album called Echo of My Soul in 2008. Long Lost Tapes 1970 is an exciting discovery. A true lost classic, the set was recorded by Walker -- playing electric guitar as well as acoustic -- in the company of five musicians, including tabla legend Badal Roy and the near mythical Detroit drummer/percussionist Muruga Booker, at Levon Helm's home studio in Woodstock, NY. The sessions have not seen the light of day until now, because they'd been uncovered by Walker as he went through his old reels. These six tracks are revelatory. They offer the deep influence of the Indian classical tradition on Walker, but more than this, they also reflect on the discoveries he was making on the electric guitar in employing it as a "folk" instrument.

1		Meditation Blues
2		Camel Ride
3		City Pulse
4		Missing You
5		102nd Psalm
6		Mellowtime