I’m sceptical about Record Store Day; it’s expensive and do I really need a live version of an album I’ve already got and don’t play that much – even if the sleeve woos me back to heady times? Probably I do, but, hey… This year it passed me by completely and only seeing racks of the releases after the event did I see that the 2024 release I’d put together from the Tom Rapp tape archives had made it out there. So, just a month late, here’s ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’.
A super rare ten-track collection of songs from Pearls Before Swine mainstay Tom Rapp.
A stripped-down study of love, hate and the state of the world, recorded over 50 years ago and still as poignant and incisive today.
“Tom Rapp is a musician from another era, I sometimes think he belongs among medieval troubadours, singing to knights and nobles.” The Voice.
A natural descendant of Pearls Before Swine’s monumental ‘One Nation Underground’ and ‘Balaklava’ albums (both re-issued on Earth Recordings).
Click on the sleeve to find out more…
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