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In this episode we're exploring some of the music that came out of the hippie communes in the early 70's. The communal living was nothing new but the 1970's saw an increase of new communes spread out in the countryside across the US and marks the start of the hippie rural movement, where the intense kaleidoscope colors of Height-Ashbury was replaced by a reconnection to nature and the more laid-back lifestyle of the 1970’s. The rural movement was partly a response to the decay of the hippie neighborhoods and the loss of spiritual clearness of the cities. Most of the communes came to existence through a shared spiritual awareness among people seeking a way of continuing their psychedelic lifestyle or the will to follow certain religious and political beliefs. All of this could be seen as social experiments which gave people a chance to distance them self from the rest of society and create their own way of living with rules only applying within the constraints of the collective. The need of detachment from the