# Event Details - **Event Name**: Robert Lester Folsom w/ Sun Child - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Robert Lester Folsom – Dec 4 at Charleston Pour House Deck Stage | $25 adv / $30 DOS | 5PM Doors / 6PM Show | psych-folk, singer-songwriterAbout this EventRobert Lester Folsonw/ Sun ChildThursday 12.4.25Charleston Pour HouseDeck Stage5pm doors /6pm show$25 advance / $30 day of showRobert Lester FolsonSunshine Only Sometimes: Archives Vol. 2, 1972-1975 continues Anthology Recordings' excavation, and exploration, of southern singer, songwriter, and psychedelic serviceman Robert Lester Folsom's bountiful archives. Recorded across Georgia in various bedrooms, a barn, and a motel room with a reel-to-reel and a revolving cast of whip smart studio musicians in the first half of a dazed and confused decade, Sunshine Only Sometimes furthers Folsom's place in the canon of long lost but eventually found independently spirited, high-flying American folk rock.When Anthology's reissue of Music and Dreams, the sole contemporaneous album released in 1976 by Folsom, surfaced in 2010, little else was known of Folsom's nearly five-decade deep archive of unreleased demos and fully formed studio recordings. Born and raised in Adel, Georgia — both then, and now, a sleepy hamlet with a population of less than 5,000 — Folsom was fortunate to be minded after extremely supportive parents. Exhibiting a precocious affinity for music, things went widescreen when he observed the same ferry from 'cross the Mersey as many others of his generation, carrying the four musical moptops to their paradigm shifting appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.Soon thereafter, Folsom began religiously absorbing every morsel of musical output The Fab Four offered, as well as that of their contemporaries. Yet, it wasn't long before observation transformed into a motivation to create. Even a children's record player bought by his parents as a gift to him was traded off to a neighborhood friend for a stringless, disheveled guitar (which Folsom's father shined to prime and function for him in short order). As time went on, Folsom's innate drive and field of vision broadened; he began enlisting neighborhood friends, classmates, and family members to fulfill his small-scale musical dreams, which would increase in weight with the passage of days.Over the next several years, while employing ingenious, home brewed over-dubbing techniques with his "love at first sight," a Sears 3440 two-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, Folsom served as the de facto producer/arranger for any and all scrappy garage band or aspiring singer songwriter in the radius of Adel. Abetted by his mobile recording unit, across a number of unusual locations, and assisted by guitarist and collaborator Hans VanBrackle, this period produced the bounty of Folsom's self-penned compositions which make up Ode to a Rainy Day and Sunshine Only Sometimes. And eventually, this period of woodshedding led to the formation of his rural-tinged, progressive, southern rock outfit Abacus.Though carrying Folsom's own singular sound and vision, Music and Dreams, in equal measure, chartered the seas of smooth West Coast AOR before the yachts to come, while tracing the distinctly Californian sound of Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter soft rock Americana, which tussled on the waters before the large vessels overtook the big blue. Folsom's earlier compositions found on Sunshine Only Sometimes reflect a darker-hued mixture of mellow folk, downer vibes, and rural tones, revealing his talent for melody and hook was intact far before Music and Dreams, with a keen sense of introspection making the dark and light equally resonant.Sunshine Only Sometimes offers up another sterling set of tonally-shifting, sub-underground, alternate timeline classic rock. The C&W-influenced, sprightly-pop of George Harrison — whose Dark Horse Records is one of a handful of record companies Folsom and VanBrackle submitted demos to — is invoked in the uber-melodic "Ease My Mind." "Julie" brings to mind Nixon-era ragged 'n' ramshackled country-blues from the Glimmer Twins' pen, and the semi-acoustic, heavily-flanged, out-of-time psych-pop of "Lonely Lovers" sits somewhere between a forward-looking glimpse at Music and Dreams and a demo from a would-be Cosmic American Music king.Unlike similar iconoclasts with crystal vision who held forth with the oppressive thumb of a musical dictator, Folsom was ever in service of song, standing equally aside his collaborators, which uniformly engendered affinity and respect lasting to this day. While a tick higher than the second-tier, the mountaintop was always narrowly out his grasp. Though, with the right set of opportunities, bolstered by talent and drive, Folsom, if not as a stand-alone, star-quality artist, could have led the career of any number of songwriters behind the curtain who rode the magical musical continuum across the decades with faceless success.Perhaps it was Robert and company's playing "weird spacey stuff and ballads," as guitarist VanBrackle describes, in small town Georgia skating rinks, bowling alleys, and school dances expecting Top 40 dance-ready hits which held them down. Perhaps it was simply location. Though, the music of Sunshine Only Sometimes is composed of an intrinsic ability to hear the music truly playing, as opposed to the space in air heard by the lay-ear, which places Folsom's music in a timeless space primed for perennial (re)discovery.* Show is for all ages. Attendees under 18 must be accompanied by a parent. Attendees under 21 will be subject to a $5 surcharge. The surcharge must be paid in cash at the door on the day of the event.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AGNRUR9xmg&pp=ygUUcm9iZXJ0IGxlc3RlciBmb2xzb20%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7HYw06pPLA&pp=ygUUcm9iZXJ0IGxlc3RlciBmb2xzb20%3Dhttps://youtu.be/KsCKsvY9Wtk - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/charleston/robert-lester-folsom-w-sun-child/100001704518263009 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, live-music, art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 29.78, max: 35.74, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Charleston - **state**: SC - **country**: United States - **location**: Charleston Pour House - Deck Stage - **lat**: 32.762024 - **long**: -79.9869752 - **full address**: Charleston Pour House - Deck Stage, 1977 Maybank Hwy, Charleston, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Robert Lester Folsom w/ Sun Child - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/be6772e917e84344a4f85ac286a031e1a5bf56beae337205a1617a6ffe063bd1-rimg-w1200-h1716-dc1a1914-gmir.jpg?v=1759102701 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Robert Lester Folsom w/ Sun Child being held? - **A:** Robert Lester Folsom w/ Sun Child takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm at Charleston Pour House - Deck Stage, 1977 Maybank Hwy, Charleston, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Robert Lester Folsom w/ Sun Child? - **A:** Robert Lester Folsom w/ Sun Child is organized by Charleston Pour House. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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