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Pat Kilroy was one of the most little-known singer/songwriters to record for Elektra Records in the 1960s, issuing just one album, 1966's Light of Day. It's a strange record, with the folk-blues base common to many performers of the era just before they leapt into folk-rock, but lacking the rock instrumentation and arrangements that would have made it an early folk-rock album. Kilroy's vocals and material are in some ways similar to those on Tim Buckley's weirder late-'60s folk-rock-jazz-psychedelic albums, but without the depth and power of Buckley's singing or songwriting. Skilled musicians Stefan Grossman, Eric Kaz, and Marc Silber...