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stark reality - discovers hoagy carmichael's music shop - now again - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Junkman's Song
2. Thirty Days Hath September
3. Cooking
4. Dreams
5. Grandfather Clock
6. Shooting Stars
7. Rocket Ship
8. Bustin' Out Of Doors
9. Comrades
10. All You Need To Make Music
11. Merry Go Round
12. The Whale
13. The Old Prospector
14. Traveling
15. Clouds
16. Swing High
17. Blue Pillow

The Stark Reality's legendary album, ...Discovers Hoagy Carmichaels Music Shop , is a funky, jazzy, fuzz-toned cult classic, consists of very original interpretations of a children's album written by Hoagy Carmichael and was originally released on Ahmad Jamals boutique label, AJP Records.

For years, the album made the rounds in underground hip-hop circles (being sampled along the way by the likes of Large Professor, J-Live, Madlib, and Black Eyed Peas), trading hands for ridiculous sums on the second-hand market -- even after it saw a reissue on Now Again as
part of the Acting, Thinking, Feeling 6xLP boxset which gathered other recently discovered, previously unreleased material from the band�s career. Now,

...Discovers Hoagy Carmichael�s Music Shop is available on vinyl for the very first time since its initial 1970 release in a deluxe 3-LP release including 56 page booklet with never before seen photos, extensive liner notes by Egon of Now Again Records with commentary by AJP founder Ahmad Jamal and annotation and an interview with Monty Stark, the band�s frontman.