Biography
PH Phactor combined jug band, folk-rock, blues, and psychedelia while shifting bases between Portland, OR, and San Francisco at different times. In their active years the group issued only a lone single, “Minglewood Blues”/“Barefoot John,” which appeared on Piccadilly in 1967. The A-side reworked a blues number dating from the 1920s and ranked among the strongest jug band/blues/folk-rock hybrids issued during the decade, whereas the B-side offered unpolished, blues-inflected folk-rock. All of the band’s recorded material eventually surfaced as the album Merryjuana, issued by Piccadilly in 1980. Scarce today, the LP revealed wider scope than the single through passages of upbeat jug band music, Country Joe & the Fish-like psychedelia, and blues-rock.
Albums