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

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

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  • All tracks previously unreleased including unheard recordings from Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Johansen (New York Dolls), Terry Allen, Delbert McClinton, Andy Warhol’s Superstar Ultra Violet, Norma Jean Bell, and The Jim Carroll Band
  • Restored and remastered audio by GRAMMY®-nominated engineer, John Baldwin
  • Extensive booklet featuring unseen archive photos, ephemera and label history (LP: 20-pgs, CD: 40-pgs)
  • Liner notes by journalist Joe Hagan with exclusive interviews
  • Double LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket
  • ‘Cocktail Party’ Vinyl Color Edition pressed on Clear Wax
  • ‘LITA Anniversary’ Vinyl Color Edition pressed on Red Opaque Wax

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AVAILABLE: July 15, 2022

“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...

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Artist Bio

“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...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Two More Bottles of Wine – Delbert & Glen
  • 2 Baby Come Closer – Hall & Oates
  • 3 Gonna California – Terry Allen
  • 4 Only Yourself to Lose - Kazoo Singers
  • 5 Christopher – Michael McCarty
  • 6 Dixie Darling – Jim Hurt
  • 7 California – Mark Rodney
  • 8 Killer - Country (Fondiler & Snow)
  • 9 Dry in the Sun – Hall & Oates
  • 10 Oh La La - Shadow
  • 11 Cocaine Cowboy – Terry Allen
  • 12 How Do You Do (Children of the Most High) – Ultra Violet
  • 13 Invisible Lady – Johnny Angel (Johnny Angelino)
  • 14 I See My Days Go By - Shadow
  • 15 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – Blood Brothers Six
  • 16 Salt Showers – Len and Betsy Greene
  • 17 Holy Commotion – Paul Potash
  • 18 Sail Away - Jabor
  • 19 Funky But Chic – David Johansen
  • 20 Just Look-ah What You’ll Be Missing – Norman Jean Bell
  • 21 Tension – The Jim Carroll Band
  • 22 Waiting for Me – Little Whisper and the Rumors