The Wizard Of Is [Import]

KEY FEATURES

• Features 31 tracks
• Sourced from the private tape collection of the late, great Tom Rapp
• 2xLP pressed on Classic Black Vinyl
• Includes 7 live bonus tracks

RELEASE DESCRIPTION

Remastered and re-appraised 31-track collection of Pearls Before Swine rarities from the private tape collection of the late, great Tom Rapp.

“Extremely influential.” Rolling Stone

For the first time on vinyl, this beautiful collection brings together alternate versions of Rapp originals ‘The Jeweler’, ‘Translucent Carriages’, and ‘Rocket Man’. It also includes jaw-dropping covers of Rapp’s contemporaries Cohen, Dylan, and Joni Mitchell, with bonus download material featuring seven amazing live versions plus a never before released intimate show at The Other End circa 1976.

“A more intoxicating version of folk psychedelia.” Wire magazine

A goldmine of possibilities from a prospector with a silver tongue and stories to tell. ‘The Wizard Of Is’ is a weird and wonderful trip inside its creator’s mind, from sonnets and space hymns to stories of revolution and the war. It’s an American Gothic fantasy that straddles old time America and the outer edges of an imagined stratosphere.

TRACKLIST

1. Where Is Love
2. Butterflies
3. Love
4. You Are Not Alone
5. Grace Street
6. Translucent Carriages
7. Space
8. Sail Away
9. City Of Gold
10. Song About A Rose
11. For Free
12. Roadside Hotel
13. Prisoner Of War
14. Wizard Of Is
15. Oh Sister
16. The Lincoln Dream
17. Can't Go Back
18. Mary Mary
19. Going To The City
20. Rocket Man
21. Riegal
22. Just Let The Grass Grow
23. Everybody's Got Pain
24. Amber Lady / I Saw The World
25. Crawling Towards Bethlehem
26. Translucent Carriages
27. Miss Morse
28. There's No Other
29. Island Lady
30. Frog In The Window
31. Morning
32. Riegal
33. Full Fathom Five / I Shall Not Care
34. Marshall
35. Footnote / When The War Began
36. Jesus
37. Anothertyme
38. Rocket Man
39. Crewman
40. Suzanne
41. Prayers Of Action / Candle
42. Lesson Of The 60s
43. Rocket Man
44. The Jeweler
45. If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind)

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