Earl’s Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970-1980

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1.	Delbert & Glen - Two More Bottles of Wine 02:57	buy track
2.	Daryl Hall & John Oates - Baby Come Closer 02:49	buy track
3.	Terry Allen - Gonna California 02:40	buy track
4.	Kazoo Singers - Only Yourself to Lose 02:47	buy track
5.	Michael McCarty - Christopher 02:44	buy track
6.	Jim Hurt - Dixie Darling 03:07	buy track
7.	Mark Rodney - California 03:02	buy track
8.	Country - Killer 03:51	buy track
9.	Daryl Hall & John Oates - Dry in the Sun 02:52	buy track
10.	Shadow - Oh La La 02:31	buy track
11.	Terry Allen - Cocaine Cowboy 02:46	buy track
12.	Ultra Violet - How Do You Do (Children of the Most High) 04:06	buy track
13.	Johnny Angel - Invisible Lady 03:08	buy track
14.	Shadow - I See My Days Go By 03:33	buy track
15.	Blood Brothers Six - Where Have All the Flowers Gone 05:24	buy track
16.	Len and Betsy Greene - Salt Showers 03:34	buy track
17.	Paul Potash - Holy Commotion 03:51	buy track
18.	Jabor - Sail Away 04:07	buy track
19.	David Johansen - Funky But Chic 04:13	buy track
20.	Norma Jean Bell - Just Look-Ah What You'll Be Missing 04:50	buy track
21.	The Jim Carroll Band - Tension 03:24	buy track
22.	Little Whisper and the Rumors - Waiting for Me 03:21	buy track

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“Earl was a wonderful man with a great eye for new and innovative art. And such an amusing companion, too.” – Mick Jagger

Earl McGrath was the ultimate ’70s jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant who stumbled into the record business between legendary parties in New York and LA and discovered Daryl Hall and John Oates and then Jim Carroll. Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave Earl his own label, Clean Records, in 1970; Mick Jagger hired him to run Rolling Stones Records in 1977.

Friend to Joan Didion, Andy Warhol, and a galaxy of luminaries, Earl was an inveterate tastemaker. Actor Harrison Ford, who before Star Wars fame was Earl’s handyman and pot dealer, called him “the last of a breed, one of the last great gentlemen and bohemians.”

After Earl died in 2016, journalist Joe Hagan, author of the critically-acclaimed Sticky Fingers, the biography of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, discovered a trove of rare and unheard tapes in Earl’s apartment in New York—literally inside his closet. “I asked for a step ladder and the first box I pulled off the shelf was a master tape of Some Girls, the Stones album,” says Hagan.

Now Light in the Attic Records proudly presents Earl’s Closet, a double album of the treasures discovered inside, including unheard music by Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Johansen, Terry Allen, Delbert McClinton, Warhol “Superstar” Ultra Violet, Detroit sax legend Norma Jean Bell, Jim Carroll and an eclectic cast of undiscovered artists who once vied for fame and glory—folk, rock, country, funk and R&B gems that virtually no one has heard in decades. Whether it’s the almost-famous power pop of Shadow from Detroit, or the Delfonics-style soul of the Blood Brothers Six, Earl’s Closet retraces the dreams of artists who once sent demos to Earl McGrath.

At once an archival mixtape, a secret history and a journey into the heart of an era, Earl’s Closet features a deep booklet of documents, images and ephemera from Earl’s archive, expansive liner notes by Joe Hagan, who tracked down and interviewed the artists, and astonishing photographs by Earl’s late wife, the Italian countess Camilla Pecci-Blunt McGrath.

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released July 15, 2022

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