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Earl’s Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970-1980
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Earl’s Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970-1980
Earl McGrath
* All tracks previously unreleased including unheard recordings from Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Johansen (New York Dolls), Terry Allen, Delbert McClinton, Andy Warhol’s Superstar Ultra Violet, Norma Jean Bell, and The Jim Carroll Band
* Restored and remastered audio by GRAMMY®-nominated engineer, John Baldwin
* Extensive booklet featuring unseen archive photos, ephemera and label history (LP: 20-pgs, CD: 40-pgs)
* Liner notes by journalist Joe Hagan with exclusive interviews
* Double LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket
* ‘Cocktail Party’ Vinyl Color Edition pressed on RED Wax
“Earl was a wonderful man with a great eye for new and innovative art. And such an amusing companion, too.” – Mick Jagger
Earl McGrath was the ultimate ’70s jet setter, an 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.
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
| Media | Music VINYL LP (Vinyl) |
| Number of records | 2 |
| Released | July 15, 2022 |
| EAN/UPC | 0826853118019 |
| Label | Light In The Attic |
| Dimensions | 600 g (Weight (estimated)) |
Track list
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1. LP
- Two More Bottles of Wine – Delbert & Glen
- Baby Come Closer – Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Gonna California – Terry Allen
- Only Yourself to Lose - Kazoo Singers
- Christopher – Michael McCarty
- Dixie Darling – Jim Hurt
- California – Mark Rodney
- Killer - Country (Fondiler & Snow)
- Dry in the Sun – Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Oh La La - Shadow
- Cocaine Cowboy – Terry Allen
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2. LP
- How Do You Do (Children of the Most High) – Ultra Violet
- Invisible Lady – Johnny Angel (Johnny Angelino)
- I See My Days Go By - Shadow
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – Blood Brothers Six
- Salt Showers – Len and Betsy Greene
- Holy Commotion – Paul Potash
- Sail Away - Jabor
- Funky But Chic – David Johansen
- Just Look-ah What You'll Be Missing – Norma Jean Bell
- Tension – The Jim Carroll Band
- Waiting for Me – Little Whisper and the Rumors
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