A 1960s group that made two albums before fading, then found new listeners decades later.
If you're going to hear one thing, try 'Mama's Love' from that 1969 record. It gives you their sound in a few minutes.
The Ace of Cups were one of the few all-female bands making folk-rock in the late 1960s, at a time when that was rare enough to be a genuine obstacle. Their 1969 album had 'Mama's Love' as a kind of signature, and songs like 'As The Rain' and 'Circles' mixed folk harmonies with a loose psychedelic feel. They're a quiet footnote that got louder when their music came back into print in the 2000s.
They formed in Boston in 1967 with Mary Gannon, Denise Kaufman, Margie Adam, and Susan Lucia. They put out a self-titled album in 1969 and 'Phases' in 1970, then disbanded. Their music stayed out of print until archival releases decades later brought them back around.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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