Title: If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972-197
Artist: Robert Lester Folsom
Label: Anthology Recordings
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 840526502110
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2026-03-20
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: COLORED VINYL

If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972-1975 is yet another magical discovery from Georgia-born singer-songwriter and guitarist Robert Lester Folsom’s oeuvre of soft psychedelia and rural Southern rock n’ roll, written and recorded over fifty years ago yet prophetically relevant today. Born of lost summers, new love (and the breaks that follow), and hippie bluegrass shakes, these spirited takes to 4-track tape capture Folsom’s earliest wizardry. A prismatic window into a young artist finding their artistic footing, and a testament to why Folsom’s legacy burns bright to this day. This edition arrives on Purple Reverie vinyl.

Tracks:
1.1 I Don’t Know
1.2 What Are You Thinking Of?
1.3 Sitting on the Moon
1.4 Mountain Air Rag
1.5 Atlanta Lala
1.6 It’s Raining Now Outside
1.7 And God Made the Pine Trees, Too
1.8 One More Song
1.9 Burnt Carmine
1.10 Gene Autry
1.11 This Blue Eyed Boy
1.12 Little Ditty
1.13 I Want to Tell You