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  • Grant Green – Idle Moments (Blue Note Classic Vinyl – 180g)
    Grant Green – Idle Moments (Blue Note Classic Vinyl – 180g)
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    Time is suspended on these four haunting, extended tunes by this brilliant guitarist with the aid of an all-star cast. Unique in Green’s discography for its relaxed, lengthy performances [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • C.I.A. Debutante – Down, Willow
    C.I.A. Debutante – Down, Willow
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    With their 3rd vinyl long player for Siltbreeze, CIA Debutante have successfully out-flanked those critics who have been forever chattering, “will they ever be as big as Artery?” To [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
    V/A – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
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    Lo and behold, Brown Acid – The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it’s another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Metal
  • V/A – Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip
    V/A – Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip
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    Here’s just a few of the gems on Brown Acid – The Fourteenth Trip, the much beloved series that is the Nuggets of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock: The Legends’ “Fever Games” […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Son of Dribble – Son of Dribble Against The Wind
    Son of Dribble – Son of Dribble Against The Wind
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    2nd LP from the Columbus, OH trio (now expanded to a quartet)! 12 songs of scuzzed out garage pop that take you from Beat Happening to the Warsaw demos to […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • David Cunningham – Grey Scale
    David Cunningham – Grey Scale
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    “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Faust – Momentaufnahme II
    Faust – Momentaufnahme II
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    Originally part of 2021’s Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own standalone release by popular demand. This is […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
    Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the wistfully sublime, Kevin Drumm’s work often yield a ferocious intensity through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Faust – Punkt
    Faust – Punkt
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    After the overwhelming success of the 1971-1974 box set release (BB 374CD/LP), containing the first four studio albums and for the first time ever this lost “last” album recording, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
    Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Possibly one of the weirdest experiments in the post-punk realm, Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) is the second studio album by English anti-heroes Alternative TV, originally released in […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • VA ? Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    VA ? Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Originally released in 1982 and now available from Song Cycle Records, Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record) showcases 3 to 5 minute sound pieces […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Nancy & Lee Again
    Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Nancy & Lee Again
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Light in the Attic Records is proud to present the next installment of the Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with the first ever reissue of the classic 1972 album Nancy & […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over You
    Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over You
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    Durand Jones’s Wait ‘Til I Get Over is a memoir and a love letter. It is the story of Jones’s life, his growth and revelations, the wisdom of his hometown […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream
    Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream
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    A Rothko-esque color field set to music, The Window Is The Dream ventures even deeper into Horn’s inner space than her stark, acclaimed debut Optimism, which earned her an ‘artist [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
    Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
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    Rock’n’roll is dead. Gallows Wine [KLP287] is a wake for it’s charred remains. Calvin Johnson traveled to Columbus, Mississippi to record Gallows Wine with the combo Hartle Road at their [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
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    Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
    Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
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    In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that “would be a bit more sober & more spacious” than his poems. And yet, in his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Luigi Pirandello – One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
    Luigi Pirandello – One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Fiction. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Luigi Pirandello’s extraordinary final novel begins when Vitangelo Moscarda’s wife remarks that Vitangelo’s nose tilts to [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
    David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    John Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
    Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
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    In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Anselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
    Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    A startlingly contemporary portrait of drug addiction in prewar Paris Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Insane amplified violin shredding on top of electric guitar on A side – I’ve never heard a violin sounding like that, blending completely with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7″ format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lowfish – Grey With Beaks LP
    Lowfish – Grey With Beaks LP
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    After a recent, acclaimed EP on Madrid’s Analogical Force label, Suction Records is thrilled to announce “Grey With Breaks,” the 8th full-length album by Lowfish. The electro veteran, who’s been [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Komet – Rausch LP
    Komet – Rausch LP
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

      Komet // Frank Bretschneider is one of the founders of the esteemed raster-media label. This album – originally a CD released on 12k in 2000, features clean sine-tones and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar’s long overdue debut album finally makes landfall! Howard Bomar was a man who slipped through everybody’s fingers. But his artistry escapes that fate thanks to I, Who [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Grupo Um – Starting Point
    Grupo Um – Starting Point
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Includes insert. The previously unreleased debut album from 1975. In 1975, under the oppressive military dictatorship in Brazil, brothers Lelo and Zé Eduardo Nazario invited bassist Zeca [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bilderine – Split Seconds
    Bilderine – Split Seconds
    $23.00 | Add to cart

    Bill Direen is a legend of the New Zealand underground. He has given us poetry, novels and a catalog of important and challenging underground music. Weaned on a garage band […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
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    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
    Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
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    In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Joseph Cornell – Dreams
    Joseph Cornell – Dreams
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    A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
    Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
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    Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
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    Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
    Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
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    A harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France’s defining poet of bohemian romanticism Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
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    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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    The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
    Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
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    Originally published in 1976, Martin Bax’s seminal cult novel is back in print after three decades. From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties, emergency cases of [...]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Blixa Bargeld – Europe Crosswise: A Litany
    Blixa Bargeld – Europe Crosswise: A Litany
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      “I am simply a traveling explorer conducting research, without a commission, specialty, or expertise.” In this semi-fictional account, Blixa Bargeld recounts life on tour in [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Fred Davis – Cleveland Blues (RSD)
    Fred Davis – Cleveland Blues (RSD)
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    “Fred Davis was a legend, but only in my living room. There was always music around my house, but as a teenager, I started digging deeper and deeper in to […]

    GENRE: Blues
  • DIIV – Live At The Murmrr Theatre (RSD)
    DIIV – Live At The Murmrr Theatre (RSD)
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    In 2017, DIIV took the stage at Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre for a special, on-off, “unplugged” performance. Now, the band shares a compilation of those live recordings. Includes unique arrangements [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – Studio One Ska (RSD, Green Vinyl)
    V/A – Studio One Ska (RSD, Green Vinyl)
    $39.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records’ 20th anniversary limited-edition heavyweight green vinyl pressing of Studio One Ska comes for Record Store Day 2023, complete with a download code. A blistering collection of [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • The Verlaines – Bird Dog (RSD, Opaque Purple Vinyl)
    The Verlaines – Bird Dog (RSD, Opaque Purple Vinyl)
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    Bird Dog is an album by The Verlaines, originally released in 1987. It’s often considered to be their best, most introspective piece of work, and its songs “Slow Sad Love […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • William Hooker – Shamballa – Duets With Thurston Moore And Elliott Sharp (RSD)
    William Hooker – Shamballa – Duets With Thurston Moore And Elliott Sharp (RSD)
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    Shamballa is the 1993 collaboration from jazz drummer William Hooker, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and composer Elliott Sharp. The release features Hooker performing duets with each musician. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Willie Henderson – Funky Chicken (RSD)
    Willie Henderson – Funky Chicken (RSD)
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    Funky Chicken is the 1970 album from Willie Henderson and the Soul Explosions. As evident by the name, it is infinitely danceable from the moment you press play. The band’s […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Albert Ayler – Europe 1966 (RSD)
    Albert Ayler – Europe 1966 (RSD)
    $125.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Lovely boxset of select dates from Ayler’s 1966 Euro tour. Live material from this tour has been dug up over the years, most notably […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Frank Black – Live 2006 (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    Frank Black – Live 2006 (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
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    Live tracks previously included on the ’93 – ’03 Best Of CD, which have never before been released on vinyl. This stand-alone release for Record Store Day 2023 has newly […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You: Rerealized (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You: Rerealized (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    UNOFFICIAL RSD 2023 This Record Store Day, the Dedstrange Rogues’ Gallery of Remix Producers joins forces with renowned Danish Electronic Composer Trentmøller, Andy Bell of legendary [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes B-Sides (RSD)
    Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes B-Sides (RSD)
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    A single LP collection of the b-sides and rarities featured alongside the singles from Tori’s seminal release (and solo debut), Little Earthquakes. This is the first time these songs have [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Foals – Life Is Dub (RSD, Gold Vinyl)
    Foals – Life Is Dub (RSD, Gold Vinyl)
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Dub version of Foals 2022 album Life Is Yours Side A. (Dan Carey dub) 1. 2am 2. Under The Radar 3. 2001 4. Life Is Yours 5. The Sound Side […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • V/A – Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage (RSD)
    V/A – Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage (RSD)
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    Compilation of Salsoul classic hits, legendary artists and deep cuts. Includes original Larry Levan remixes – currently unavailable and exclusive for RSD The cover artwork uses an iconic [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • E-40 – Revenue Retrievin Day Shift (RSD, Gold Vinyl)
    E-40 – Revenue Retrievin Day Shift (RSD, Gold Vinyl)
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    Part one of internationally acclaimed musician and entrepreneur E-40’s landmark four-part Revenue Retrievin’ series! Originally released in 2010, Day Shift features nineteen tracks of 40’s [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RSD)
    Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RSD)
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter, but his talents extend far beyond that to short stories, poetry and satire. More than a torrent, less than a flood, the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country