Tom Rapp Remembered
The program for April 7, 2018, looked back on the music of Tom Rapp, guiding genius of the alternative folk band Pearls Before Swine.
If you want to read more about him, this 1998 article in the Washington Post is an engaging starting point. More are listed in the Wikipedia articles just linked to. One of many obituaries appeared in The New York Times.
This obit on the NPR music news site The Record offers links to the recent All Music Considered interview celebrating the rerelease of One Nation Underground as well as to this Weekend Edition interview from 2001.
First hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Rapp | fragment of intro | (live performance on WHCN, Hartford, 1971) |
| live concert intro | Live Pearls (WildCat) | |
| Pearls Before Swine | Another Time | One Nation Underground (Drag City) |
| Bob Boilen with Tom Rapp | interview fragment | All Songs Considered (NPR) |
| New Set | ||
| Pearls Before Swine | I Shall Not Care | One Nation Underground (Drag City) |
| Drop Out! | One Nation Underground (ESP/ZYX) | |
| New Set | ||
| Morning Song | One Nation Underground (Drag City) | |
| I Saw the World | The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings (ESP) | |
| Translucent Carriages | Balaklava (ESP/ZYX) | |
| Music Under Announcements | ||
| Six Organs of Admittance | Procession of the Cherry Blossom Spirits; Home | School of the Flower (Holy Mountain) |
| Pearls Before Swine | Lepers and Roses | Balaklava (ESP/ZYX) |
| Song about a Rose | The Wizard of Is (Water) | |
| The Riegal | Live Pearls (WildCat) | |
| Raindrops | City of Gold (Water*) | |
| Space | The Wizard of Is (Water) | |
| Tom Rapp | Anecdotes from the Sixties | A Journal of the Plague Year (Woronzow) |
Second hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Bob Boilen with Tom Rapp | interview fragment | All Songs Considered (NPR) |
| Tom Rapp | Fourth Day of July | Stardancer (Lemon) |
| Pearls Before Swine | Sail Away | These Things Too (Water) |
| Pearls Before Swine | City of Gold | City of Gold (Water) |
| New Set | ||
| Tom Rapp / Pearls Before Swine | Island Lady | ...Beautiful Lies You Could Live In (Water) |
| Pearls Before Swine | The Jeweler | The Use of Ashes (Water) |
| Pearls Before Swine | Nancy | City of Gold (Water) |
| Tom Rapp | Forbidden City | Sunforest (Edsel) |
| Pearls Before Swine | Rocket Man | Live Pearls (WildCat) |
| New Set | ||
| Tom Rapp | Blind River | Sunforest (Edsel) |
| Running in My Dream | A Journal of the Plague Year (Woronzow) | |
| Hopelessly Romantic | For the Dead in Space (Ptolemaic Terrascope / Magic Eye Singles) | |
| Blind | A Journal of the Plague Year (Woronzow) | |
| New Set | ||
| In Gowan Ring | Another Time | A Tribute to Tom Rapp (online) |
| Pearls Before Swine | These Things Too | These Things Too (Water) |
*The CDs These Things Too, The Use of Ashes, City of Gold, and ...Beautiful Lies You Could Live In were rereleased as a box set called Jewels Were the Stars by Water Records in San Rafael. It and The Wizard of Is seem not to be available new currently. Discogs merchants have copies for sale.