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Release date
Jan 1, 2022
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Unheard country/ stoner rock recordings found in Rolling Stones Records manager's closet by the likes of Hall & Oates, Norma Jean Bell, Terry Allen.
Earl McGrath - the ultimate ’70s jet setter, art collector and comic bon vivant who stumbled into the record business between legendary parties in New York and LA and discovered Daryl Hall and John Oates and then Jim Carroll. Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave Earl his own label, Clean Records, in 1970; Mick Jagger hired him to run Rolling Stones Records in 1977.
Friend to Joan Didion, Andy Warhol, and a galaxy of luminaries, Earl was an inveterate tastemaker. Actor Harrison Ford, who before Star Wars fame was Earl’s handyman and pot dealer, called him “the last of a breed, one of the last great gentlemen and bohemians.”
After Earl died in 2016, journalist Joe Hagan, author of the critically-acclaimed Sticky Fingers, the biography of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, discovered a trove of rare and unheard tapes in Earl’s apartment in New York - literally inside his closet. “I asked for a step ladder and the first box I pulled off the shelf was a master tape of Some Girls, the Stones album,” says Hagan.
Now Light in the Attic Records proudly presents Earl’s Closet, a double album of the treasures discovered inside, including unheard music by Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Johansen, Terry Allen, Delbert McClinton, Warhol “Superstar” Ultra Violet, Detroit sax legend Norma Jean Bell, Jim Carroll and an eclectic cast of undiscovered artists who once vied for fame and glory—folk, rock, country, funk and R&B gems that virtually no one has heard in decades.
Double 180g LP, gatefold sleeve, w/ extensive 20 page booklet featuring unseen archive photos, ephemera and label history.
*Taxes included, shipping price excluded
A1
Delbert & Glen - Two More Bottles of Wine
A2
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Baby Come Closer
A3
Terry Allen - Gonna California
A4
Kazoo Singers - Only Yourself to Lose
A5
Michael McCarty - Christopher
A6
Jim Hurt - Dixie darling
B1
Mark Rodney - California
B2
Country - Killer
B3
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Dry In the Sun
B4
Shadow - Oh La La
B5
Terry Allen - Cocaine Cowboy
B6
Ultra Violet - How Do You Do (Children of the Most High)
C1
Johnny Angel - Invisible Lady
C2
Shadow - I See My Days Go By
C3
Blood Brothers Six - Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
C4
Len & Betsy Green - Salt Showers
C5
Paul Potash - Holy Commotion
D1
Jabor - Sail Away
D2
David Johansen - Funky But Chic
D3
Norma Jean Bell - Just Look-Ah What You'll Be Missing
D4
The Jim Carroll Band - Tension
D5
Little Whisper And The Rumors - Waiting For Me