Around Christmastime 1968, in the central Illinois prairie town of Pekin, a tiny independent record label was born. Its proprietor Chuck Perrin christened it Webster's Last Word and thus began the saga of the bewitching collection of folk recordings sampled herein. What’s magical about these recordings by Chuck and his younger sister Mary, is that they effortlessly transcend their place in time. Like some of the works of Fred Neil, Nick Drake or Karen Dalton, the songs are clearly rooted in the folk tradition of the moment, but they exist in a much larger world that reaches beyond the boundaries of folk, pop or even basic chronology. They sound as if they could have been released in 2010 as in the late 1960’s, or at any time between. Even though they were originally intended as demo recordings to be used as calling cards for finding larger label interest, these LPs hold their own astonishingly well. It was unusual to run your own independ...