are those tonberries from final fantasy?

you can hear Charles Manson's recorded songs here: http://naturalismo.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/the-original-freak-folk/

they're actually pretty catchy folk songs...

You can go to the following link to hear Charles Manson's music in discussion here, it's actually pretty great. If you're a fan of the Beach Boys/Devendra Banhart/T.Rex, you'd prob like it just unique interesting songs... kind of hard to separate the idea of Charles Manson from his music:

http://naturalismo.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/the-original-freak-folk/

Joanna Newsom is both a friend and collaborator with many of these other folk artists covered in this doc.

I actually write for a blog called Naturalismo that is solely covering the artists of this movement. Freak Folk and New Weird America are more media created genres than endorsed by the artists themslves. The word Naturalismo comes from an interview with Devendra Banhart lamenting the tag of Freak Folk and suggesting alternative genres names as to dissuade usage of the Freak Folk genre name.

If you want to read more about the artists you should check out the blog:

http://naturalismo.wordpress.com