***BACK IN STOCK!!! The first-ever authorized reissue of GARY HIGGINS’ highly-sought 1973 Red Hash album. Eleven haunting tracks of folk-pop played on acoustic and electric guitar and arranged with percussion, cello, flute, piano, organ, bass, mandolin, and Higgins’ transcendent vocals. Includes two unheard bonus tracks—“Don’t Ya Know,” an early ‘80s home recording, and “Last Great Sperm Whale,” a 1975 track featuring Higgins and three of the Red Hash players. Includes bonus 7-inch of the once-CD only bonus tracks "Don't Ya Know" and "Last Great Sperm Whale.”
CD $13.75
08/29/2005
LP+7" $25.40
06/12/2012
***GARY HIGGINS is back from the time-space continuum with previously unheard moments from his storied past. Way back in 2005, Drag City reintroduced his 1974 psych-folk classic Red Hash to listeners around the world, who were acutely touched by Gary’s carefully-arranged, darkly utopian songs. Since then, Red Hash has been widely recognized as a classic of its time. Since then, Gary has played shows around the U.S., something that he was unable to do in the mid-’70s when Red Hash came out, due to incarceration on trumped-up drug possession charges. It was a good feeling, playing his songs for people who were moved by them, so Gary decided to record some new ones, and in 2009,his first new recordings in over thirty years were issued as the album Seconds. His sound was neither revisited nor updated; natural evolution had occurred and the songs were unmistakably Gary Higgins; older, and different, yet unchanged. Fresh from his trip to the present, Gary is back in the past for this EP of songs, all of which were written and recorded circa ’70-’71, in the same time that the songs that would form Red Hash took shape. No Export to Europe. (STREET DATE - 3/22/2011)
LP $13.75
03/22/2011
CD $11.25
03/22/2011
***The music business is full of funny stories—and some of them aren’t that funny at all. Take GARY HIGGINS. In the early ‘70s, he made a great record, the culmination of years of listening and playing and work. Then he went to jail for marijuana possession, a short stint, but still, the kind of crime that’s almost not a crime these days. The record came out—but without him to promote it, almost nobody heard it, until 2005: Red Hash, Higgins’ megaobscure psychedelic folk-rock masterpiece is reissued on CD, drawing all kinds of acclaim and selling thousands of copies. Shows are played, interviews are done. But how to answer the question, why haven’t you made another record since then? 2009: Gary Higgins’ Seconds. is here to answer the question. It’s a beautiful acoustic-based record featuring careful, melancholy arrangements in the tradition set by his famous previous record— ut with a few unpredictable musical touches. Additionally, Seconds. weaves black threads of lyrical reflection into its sleeve in the shortlived Higgins tradition. His was never a hippie-dippy perspective—back in the day, his songs featured a thoughtful, but worldweary, occasionally even paranoid perspective. Whether the material has been gathered in the years since his reemergence in 2005 or over the longer stretch since the last released Higgins material, it flows with oneness. And accompanied by his fellow travelers (including a couple Red Hash players as well as his son), he’s put together a bold and colorful statement of where he’s at today. Seconds. ain’t...
LP $19.75
09/29/2009
CD $13.75
09/29/2009