They don’t make hippie folk-rock like this no more. Now on their third album, the Freak Mountain Ramblers have basically become a sort of Traveling Wilburys for Holy Modal Rounder followers, featuring members of those ’60s cult icons and related groups like Jeffrey Frederick’s Clamtones. If you think that this crew had already more or less produced something fitting that description with 1976’s classic summit meeting Have Moicy! well, you’re sort of correct—the band even covers two songs off of that near-masterpiece. But some folks can’t get enough of this stuff, especially in the Pacific Northwest, and the band does retain its dual abilities to interpret (stellar covers of Dan Hicks’ “He’s Stoned” and Townes Van Zandt’s “Don’t You Take It Too Bad”) and shock (the new “Third Floor Judy” is a gentle tale of incestuous, mentally disabled, paraplegic love so disturbing the band apologizes profusely for it in the liner notes).

Like most of their contemporaries, the Ramblers sound lightweight when they try to rock out, as they do on covers of the Moicy cut “Drivin’ Wheel” and Mickey Newbury’s “Why You Been Gone So Long?” They fare better in more familiar territory like the swampy original “Mississippi Bound” and the ultra-obscure weepy Fraser and DeBolt two-step “Dance Hall Girls.” Even if the Ramblers and their slightly electrified ilk aren’t the counterculture trailblazers they once were, they’re still committed to a good time, and while it’s a quieter time these days, the slightly demented warmth is still there. Besides, there’s only so many times you can dig out those old Dead albums.