Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath 1970-1980

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.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 Earls 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 Earls 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 Earls 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. Whether its the almost-famous power pop of Shadow from Detroit, or the Delfonics-style soul of the Blood Brothers Six, Earls Closet retraces the dreams of artists who once sent demos to Earl McGrath. Longtime Light in the Attic-affiliated reissue producer Pat Thomas assisted Hagan in tracking down the artists and finalizing the paperwork.

1: Two More Bottles of Wine - Delbert & Glen
2: Baby Come Closer - Daryl Hall & John Oates
3: Gonna California - Terry Allen
4: Only Yourself to Lose - Kazoo Singers
5: Christopher - Michael McCarthy
6: Dixie Darling - Jim Hurt
7: California - Mark Rodney
8: Killer - Country (Fondiler & Snow)
9: Dry in the Sun - Daryl Hall & John Oates
10: Oh La La - Shadow
11: Cocaine Cowboy - Terry Allen
12: How Do You Do (Children of the Most High) - Ultra Violet
13: Invisible Lady - Johnny Angel
14: I See My Days Go By - Shadow
15: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Blood Brothers Six
16: Salt Showers - Len and Betsy Greene
17: Holy Commotion - Paul Potash
18: Sail Away - Jabor
19: Funky But Chic - David Johansen
20: Just Look-ah What You'll Be Missing - Norma Jean Bell
21: Tension - The Jim Carroll Band
22: Waiting for Me - Little Whisper and the Rumors

Number of Discs: 2

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