Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine – City Of Gold (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1979

City Of Gold is an LP by Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine from 1979 released on the Reprise Records label.

About this album

City of Gold is a poetic, haunting folk album from Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine, marked by fragile melodies and surreal, end-of-days imagery. Issued in 1971, it reflects the band’s late-period shift towards more understated arrangements while keeping Rapp’s uneasy blend of tenderness, wit and spiritual unease at the centre. Across songs such as the title track and the aching Seventies-era folk cover Seasons in the Sun, the album extends Pearls Before Swine’s cult reputation as one of the most distinctive voices in American underground folk. Its atmosphere and lyrical vision helped define Rapp’s singular place in the era.

Genre: Folk