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Yeah, I must admit that you, and maybe Savage Clone, Atari and Rob seem like people who might be into it to some degree.
I know that England's Fairport Convention were enormously inspired by them and that, in many ways, Liege and Lief is a kind of English response to it - moving away from psychedelia towards a more traditional style of arrangement/songwriting. There's a maturity here, like music made by old men, that seems completely out of kilter with the time it was made - similar in that sense to something like Dylan's 'Self Portrait' - which is a kind of obvious link, but nonetheless.
There's a chapter on it in Greil Marcus' book Mystery Train where he talks about an attitude of sheer bewilderment about amongst his peers, mixed with a general sense that something truly great had been achieved. Even he seems to truly struggle to comprehend it though. It's just like a big musical 'yes', with no real sense of being able to deal with it. Which is exactly how I feel as I'm listening to it now.
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