Robert Lester Folsom

Robert Lester Folsom is a singer/songwriter with a penchant for crafting warm and breezy soft rock/AM pop confections with a psychedelic twist. His one studio album (1978's Music & Dreams) amassed some regional attention upon its release, but remained largely invisible to the rest of the world until the Brooklyn-based indie label Mexican Summer reissued it in 2010. This reactivated Folsom's creativity, and he began recording and performing new material after the reissue. Mexican Summer continued championing Folsom in the years that followed by releasing collections of archival demos like 2022's Sunshine Only Sometimes and new studio recordings such as the 2024 EP Chunka-Chunka. In 2026, he offered up another archival set, If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972-1975.