The Youngbloods - Hippie From Olema (live TV 1970)
Channel: slydogmania
Date: 16/06/2023

Courtesy of the Clark Santee archives, the Youngbloods perform Hippie From Olema, their riposte to Merle Haggard's mighty anthemic Okie From Muskogee. "Answer" records were relatively common and often successful throughout the 1950's and 1960's, although this one falls well short of the mark, looking and sounding like it was conceived by the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers' misreading of Haggard's underlying observations of late 1960's America