Pamme Swan captures the right mood on her new CD Hamilton singer-songwriter Pamme Swan says she was swarmed with inspiration while preparing to record her fifth CD. "Patchouli Room." There was a whiff of patchouli oil she'd saved from her youth. There were her sessions teaching an autistic child who ended up showing Swan how to view the world through a different prism. And there was the chilling escape back home from New Orleans a day before Katrina hit. So she delivers an introspective set of 13 free- spirited tales that hippies of all ages should take pride in. Her rich voice and far-ranging guitars capture the mood of the '60's in a fine style. "Peace Out Gurl Scout" starts the journey with a psychedelic feel and just a hint of echo. The mandolinlike style of the strumstick she uses on the title cut helps whisk everybody away as she sings , " I will carry you up and take you away, my love, to my secrete place." "Hard Road" admirably dives into her sometimes roiling relationship with her wild-child 15-year-old, who, she admits, is just like her. But the coolest tale is "Crimson Strawberry," a winding epic about a guy name Tommy Fowler, who saw the attitudes of the '70s and opened a head shop by that name. "Tired of stacking the store shelves and being a bag boy on the run. Sick of counting coupons and being a grocers son. Tommy took a ride in his Mustang 14 miles to the south, to the town with the college and the students and professors hiking back and forth," she sings. And your hooked on the story of the guy who sold hookahs. Catch a show: Swan plays at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Copper Turret on Route 20 in Morrisville. She says she might even give out some patchouli incense sticks.

I now own all of her CDs. Patchouli Room is by far the most cohesive. For the most part it deals with a special time,when we could sniff the air and know exactly what was wafting in it; Patchouli; Sandlewood or that other one, I forget now !