{"product_id":"richard-swift-ground-trouble-jaw-walt-wolfman","title":"Richard Swift: Ground Trouble Jaw \/ Walt Wolfman [ Vinyl ]","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGround Trouble Jaw \/ Walt Wolfman\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Swift\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSecretly Canadian\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e656605038711\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eRock\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2019-04-05\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         It was a great Swiftian irony that the shining moment of realization that is Ground Trouble Jaw first saw it's release as a modest, digital-only EP in 2008. Here we right that wrong, and pair it with 2011's Walt Wolfman EP, very much a spiritual twin of Ground Trouble Jaw. Ground Trouble Jaw is the lens that pulls Swift's catalogue into a focused oeuvre. It was the first release that folded the tireless, vying personalities of Richard Swift's art - the art brut R\u0026amp;B of Onasis; the John Fante saloon player of The Novelist; the Brill Building songcraft of Dressed Up For the Letdown - into a singular, succinct artistic statement. Here is a man discovering at once his own capacity for timelessness. The triumphant, Sly Stone burner \"Lady Luck\" feels like a song your heart knew before you did, a ripe jazz apple that Swift plucked on a stroll through the orchard. You can feel his joy and the responsibility of his personal discovery. You can imagine a not-to-distant future in which parents and children slowdance together at weddings to the childhood sweetheart doo-wop of \"Would You.\" The electric artistic breakthrough is palpable. Walt Wolfman's blown-out, basement R\u0026amp;B speaker-shredders are not for the faint of heart. Highlight of the set, \"MG 33\" is a raw and ghostly trance, a blast of kinetic energy and that jazz apple smoke blown right in your face. The quasi-title track \"Walt Whitman\" is a cryptic salute to Whitman, whose American lineage of primal, urgent art can be traced to include Kerouac and Ray Johnson, Bo Diddley and Beefheart - right on through to Swift himself. He was an outsider-pop wanderkind who could do more with one worn, old mic than most men could with a high-end studio, taking \"the holy moment\" and making it eternal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Would You \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Lady Luck \u003cbr\u003e1.3 The Bully \u003cbr\u003e1.4 The Original Thought \u003cbr\u003e1.5 A Song for Milton Feher \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Whitman \u003cbr\u003e1.7 MG 333 \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Laugh It Up \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Zombie Boogie \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Out ; About \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Drakula (Hey Man!) \u003cbr\u003e1.12 St. Michael\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Richard Swift","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54629840322932,"sku":"38702969","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/7449\/0228\/files\/3899406.jpg?v=1779258956","url":"https:\/\/shnjsx-hj.myshopify.com\/products\/richard-swift-ground-trouble-jaw-walt-wolfman","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}