Jack Rose - Dr. Ragtime & His Pals Artist_Matt Elliott one idealized and one torn

one idealized and one torn by civil war ("Wonderafrica" and "La Tuerie")

’ and Dayoung’s solo voice in ‘Swim

as all the while Barnes lays bare his most gut-wrenching lyrics

it has been pressed on 180g vinyl for the first time and features the original artwork and liner notes

” which remain essential to the James Brown catalogue and to R&B music of the early 1960s

Jack Rose - Dr. Ragtime & His Pals Artist_Matt Elliott one idealized and one tornJohn Coltrane died at age 40, and in retrospect it seems as if the intensity of activity in his last years, the sheer torrent of notes, was an attempt at purging the music from his soul before it was too late. The guitarist Jack Rose died at 38, in 2009, and listening back to his catalog one has a similar notion. Like Coltrane, Jack Roses last years were marked by a shimmering intensity, an outpouring of his spirit, onto audiences and records. I