Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Pearls Before Swine
The Use Of Ashes
(Reprise, 1970)
Civil rights attourney’s former life as lisping folk riddler.
If folk-rock is an acquired taste then Tom Rapp’s Pearls Before Swine are an eel-and-chitlin salad on a bed of head-cheese. Back in 1967 Rapp was the teenage Michael Rosen lookalike who, with his fellow Florida high-schoolers, cut a brace of albums - One Nation Underground and Balaklava – for New York freak label, ESP-Disk, that became the go-to protest albums for tripping history teachers; Tolkien-referencing anti-war folk-psych dressed in clavinet and swine-horn, all delivered by a bespectacled singer audibly unable to pronounce his esses. After his fellow Floridians departed Rapp recorded four further albums for Reprise including this small wonder. The cover - from a 15th Century French tapestry - shows three huntsmen slaughtering a unicorn, and Rapp’s sibilant songs similarly deal with the death of the fabulous. The hallucinatory Rocket Man – in which mother and son watch falling stars and wonder if any could be their father’s space capsule, burning up on re-entry - became an acknowledged influence on Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin, but PBS faded from the popular memory and Rapp became a lawyer. And while his old vocal “thtylings” might still alienate newcomers, these lushly orchestrated Blakean puzzles will still get you in the end.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 14/03/2008
Further Listening
Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava (ESP-Disk, 1968)
Bill Fay – Bill Fay (Nova, 1971)
Damon & Naomi – With Ghost (Sub Pop, 2000)
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