Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava [2LP] (RSD 2023)

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: EARTHLP056
Barcode: 0809236175670
Release Date: 22 Apr 2023
Genre: Folk Rock

1000 pressed. Double LP, Gatefold sleeve, DL card. “A high point in his recorded output.” Goldmine. Double LP expanded re-issue of Pearls Before Swine's follow up to ‘One Nation Underground’, plus a second disc of unreleased extras including demos, rehearsals and alternative versions. With a faithfully recreated original sleeve and extensive notes, produced in collaboration with the Tom Rapp Estate. “The near-brilliant follow-up intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn't offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Tom Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference.” AllMusic. “A high of psychedelic delicacy and deceptive urgency, one of his masterpieces.” Rolling Stone.

Track List: Side One. A1 Trumpeter Landfrey A2 Translucent Carriages A3 Images of April A4 There Was a Man A5 I Saw the World A6 Guardian Angels. Side Two. B1 Suzanne B2 Lepers and Roses B3 Florence Nightingale B4 Ring Thing. Side Three. C1 Transclucent Carriages (Long Version) (Balaklava Out-Takes) C2 Ring Thing (Balaklava Out-Takes) C3 The Cowboy Who Ate Vietnam (Balaklava Out-Takes) C4 I Saw the World (Balaklava Out-Takes) C5 There Was a Man (Live at the Jabberwock Club, 1971). Side Four. D1 Images of April (Balaklava Out-Takes) D2 Guardian Angels (Balaklava Out-Takes) D3 Suzanne (Live at WNIA Radio, 1971) D4 Transclucent (Alternative Version) (WUSB Radio Session, 1971).