Tom Rapp

Vocalist, composer, and cult icon Tom Rapp, the mastermind at the rear of psychedelic folk music group Pearls Before Swine, was created in Bottineau, ND in 1947. After composing his first music at age group six, he started performing at regional talent shows, so that as a teenager, bested a Bob Dylan at one particular event. Upon relocating to Melbourne, FL, Rapp shaped Pearls Before Swine in 1965, documenting a demonstration which then delivered to the ESP-Disk label; the business quickly authorized the group, plus they quickly traveled to NY to record their outstanding 1967 debut One Country Underground, which continued to market some 250,000 copies.The explicitly anti-war Balaklava, widely thought to be Pearls Before Swine’s finest work, followed in 1968; the group — by this time around essentially composed of Rapp and whoever else is at the studio at this time — shifted to Reprise for 1969’s THESE EXACT THINGS As well, mounting their first-ever tour in the wake of liberating The usage of Ashes a yr later. Two even more albums, Town of Silver and Beautiful Lays You Could RESIDE IN, implemented in 1971; shifting to Blue Thumb, Rapp resurfaced being a single musician with 1972’s Stardancer, but upon the discharge of Sunforest a calendar year afterwards he retired from music, eventually learning to be a civil privileges attorney. Often cited as an integral influence by famous brands Damon & Naomi, the Bevis Frond, and japan psych music group Ghost, Rapp produced an unexpected go back to live show in middle-1998 when he made an appearance on the Terrastock celebration in Providence, RI, signing up for kid Dave and his indie pop music group Timid Camp. he shortly began focus on the 1999 to push out a Journal from the Plague Calendar year, his first brand-new LP in over 2 decades.