Light in the Attic to Release ‘Earl’s Closet,’ a Collection of Unheard Music From Legend’s Private Collection – American Blues Scene

Celebrated archival reissue label Gentle in the Attic(LITA) is proud to announce Earl’s Closet: The Missing Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970-1980, a distinctive selection of rare and unheard music from the personal selection of a famous determine of 20^th century art and new music. 

Earl McGrath was the best ’70s jet setter, an art collector and comedian bon vivant, who stumbled into the history company and discovered Daryl Corridor and John Oates, and later Jim Carroll, whilst holding court docket at his famous salons in Los Angeles and New York. Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave Earl his individual label, Thoroughly clean Information, in 1970 Mick Jagger employed him to run Rolling Stones Records in 1977. “Earl was a fantastic person,” suggests Jagger, “and this kind of an amusing companion, also.” 

Close friend to Joan Didion, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, and a galaxy of luminaries, Earl was an inveterate tastemaker. Actor Harrison Ford, who ahead of Star Wars fame was Earl’s handyman and pot dealer, termed him “the past of a breed, one particular of the very last great gentlemen and bohemians.” 

Right after Earl passed in 2016, journalist Joe Hagan, creator of the critically-acclaimed Sticky Fingers, the biography of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, uncovered a trove of reel-to-reel tapes in Earl’s apartment in New York—literally inside his closet. “I requested for a phase ladder and the 1st box I pulled off the shelf was a learn tape of Some Girls, the Stones album,” states Hagan. 

Hagan spent a lot more than a 12 months sifting by means of the hundreds of tapes to curate an album crammed with treasures he unearthed, 22 music in all, which includes tracks by Daryl Corridor and John Oates, David Johansen of the New York Dolls, Terry Allen, Delbert McClinton, Warhol’s “Superstar” Extremely Violet, GRAMMY®-nominated songwriter Tom Snow’s nation-rock team Region, Detroit sax legend Norma Jean Bell, Jim Carroll, and an eclectic forged of undiscovered artists who the moment vied for fame and glory—folk, rock, nation, funk, and R&B gems that pretty much no one has heard in a long time. No matter whether it is the virtually-famed energy pop of Shadow from Detroit, or the Delfonics-design and style soul of the Blood Brothers Six, Earl’s Closet retraces the goals of artists who as soon as despatched demos to Earl McGrath. 

At at the time an archival mixtape, a top secret heritage, and a journey into the coronary heart of an era, Earl’s Closet capabilities a complete booklet (LP: 20-internet pages/CD: 40-web pages) that includes unseen files, images, and ephemera from Earl’s archive, expansive liner notes by Hagan, who tracked down and interviewed the artists, and astonishing photos by Earl’s late wife, the Italian countess Camilla Pecci-Blunt McGrath. The double LP edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl, housed in a gatefold jacket, and readily available on red opaque wax (limited “LITA Anniversary” edition offered completely on label’s web site), very clear wax (“Cocktail Party” edition available at select shops), and basic black wax (conventional edition).

Readily available for pre-order now and thanks out July 15^th in 2xLP, CD, and digital formats, Earl’s Closet was co-generated by Hagan and Pat Thomas, functions newly-remastered audio by GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin, with layout by Darryl Norsen. As well as, LITA is releasing 3 singles such as: “Dry In The Sun” by Daryl Corridor and John Oates (out now on all digital platforms), “Just Appear-ah What You will Be Missing” by Norma Jean Bell (due out June 9^th), and “Tension” by Jim Carroll Band (because of out July 7^th).

Simply click here to pre-purchase the album and stream/obtain the first single. In celebration of the release, LITA premiered a small movie directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Brendan Toller (Danny Says), documenting the album’s outstanding origin story.