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The Holy Modal Rounders or simply The Rounders, an American folk music duo

The Holy Modal Rounders

"Bird Song" was essentially Ray Price's "You Done Me Wrong" with altered lyrics and was prominently featured in Dennis Hopper's film Easy Rider.

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For a time the band also featured prolific and famous playwright and actor, Sam Shepard.

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After leaving the Fugs, the Rounders reformed with Sam Shepard and Lee Crabtree to record their third album (Indian War Whoop), and to appear in Shepard's play Forensic.

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The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk music duo from the Lower East Side of New York City which started in the early 1960s, consisting of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber.

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While working for his wife, Betsy Wollheim, as submissions editor of DAW Books Stampfel formed the Bottle Caps, releasing Peter Stampfel and the Bottlecaps (1986) and The People's Republic of Rock n' Roll (1989), as well as an album of standards, You Must Remember This (1994).

The Dust Busters

The three met as a group while playing in a larger band called the Ether Frolic Mob alongside folk musicians Peter Stampfel of The Holy Modal Rounders and John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers, which began at Peter’s Thanksgiving parties.

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