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Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
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“Music For Mornings” is a mixtape full of folk jammers & love songs, running at just under an hour this is the perfect tape to jam to start off your day.
Folk mixtape curated by Alex York (Torn Light/Fantastique) & John Rich (Wasteland Jazz Unit / No Response) C60 (minus a few min’s) of downer folk. Dreary and sad, broken and busted. [...]
2015 remaster of this album, recorded between August 24, 1983 and September 9, 1984. Originally released on LP by Zero Records on December 25, 1984. Tracks 12 & 13 are bonus live tracks, [...]
Real Gone Music – RGM-0978 2020 US Pressing on clear vinyl Media Condition – Strong VG+ Sleeve Condition – Strong VG+ with light sleevewear
24 page zine featuring 10 different country singles about drugs. Each single has a write up about the song and any history I could find as well as the lyrics on the facing page. From the Dollar [...]
Mixtape #3: Twenty four songs packed into 60 minutes about big rigs, the open road, and tragedy on the highway. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar Country is a [...]
Mixtape #1: Thirty two (mostly) unknown country cuts from the dustiest corners of America’s dollar bins! It’s a good tape, you’ll love it! From the Dollar Country website: [...]
Mixtape #5: Loners & Outsiders, Country artists who took their own path. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar Country is a radio show hosted by WTFC radio. It [...]
Mixtape #2: Dollar Country mixtape featuring nineteen tunes from the Dollar Country vaults about death, drugs, and disasters. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar [...]
Christian DeRoeck wasn’t sure he’d ever make another Little Gold record. The Athens, Ga. country-rock band was broken up, and the frontman was feeling like the project had run its course. But [...]
“If the cold Midwestern highways got your eagle wings broken and your biker crew is cluttering up the dingy bars of Downerville to the point where you are forced to cower into the shadows [...]
“If Bob Dylan was funny, if Tom Waits was relevant, Ryan might not be peerless at what he does best, which is writing large gregarious circles around his pitiful colleagues in the field. [...]
The definitive reissue of one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums — ‘acid-folk’ — equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic. The fi¬rst time [...]
Asylum Records – SD 5050 1971 US Media Condition – VG, some light scuff marks on both sides of record Sleeve Condition – G+, old price sticker on cover, light ringwear, significant edge wear
Important Records – IMPREC355LP 2012 US Media Condition – VG+, one light scuff mark on side 2 Sleeve Condition – VG+, crease in bottom right corner of sleeve, mild edge wear
Other Music Recording Co. – OM-015-1 2014 Europe Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, comes with download code, mild edge wear
Reprise Records – RS 6297 1968 US Pressing Media Condition – VG+ with light marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ still in shrink, with light wear/discoloration
“The Veiled Sea” is easily one the most viscerally satisfying records in the Six Organs of Admittance discography. As always, Chasny finds the invisible threads between incongruous [...]
Daniel Bachman has never shied away from bold musical statements, those that follow his exacting vision for what can be seen as “guitar music”. The bold and engrossing [...]
The sound movement on GHOST TROPIC will seem sudden to some; without warning. To others, it’ll seem a very logical step in a very foreign direction. On its fifth proper full-length, Songs: [...]
From the label: “Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapter’s landmark compilation of 70s gay musical pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever – and on pink vinyl to boot! [...]
1975 US Pressing ILPS 9326 Media Condition: VG Sleeve Condition: VG Some light scuff marks on both sides. Comes in original inner sleeve. Bottom left corner of sleeve is clipped. Sleeve still has [...]
With no touring in 2020, and possibly this year, Woods decided to take a deep dive into their archives and put together the first volume of their much discussed archival series, Reflections. [...]
While the collection of songs on Philadelphia / Michigan musician Rosali’s electrifying third album, No Medium, explores the often dark territory of loss, death, sexuality, self-sabotage, and [...]
“‘Singer-songwriter’ is a frustratingly confining term; to truly understand exactly just how confining, look no further than the recorded works of Simon Joyner, an artist whose work consistently [...]
One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow. After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a [...]
Double LP version. 2021 repress; deluxe Stoughton gatefold packaging. Singles and demos, 1964 to 1967. “Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan’s recent re-emergence as [...]
“… The Ohio-based guitarist’s artistic leaps in recent years are rivaled only by those of Daniel Bachman, another once-precocious player formerly in the John Fahey / Jack Rose [...]
New Enhet För Fri Musk album, recorded in Gothenburg and Malmö 2020 by Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson, Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. A concept album on relationships, family [...]
Light In The Attic and the legendary folk/blues/roots label Vanguard Records are proud to begin a series of collaborations under the umbrella Vanguard Vault. The series will explore the vaults of [...]
Largely unheard, criminally undocumented, but at their core, utterly revolutionary, the recordings of the diverse North American Aboriginal community will finally take their rightful place in our [...]
“I asked him if he wanted to use any of his songs, and he said, “No.” We had a long chat before we did any of this. He said, ‘No, I want you to do it and I want to just be a singer.’ So I said [...]
Phoenix, Arizona 1955…a twenty-five year old disc jockey and fledgling songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, is trying to break into the music industry. He takes Greyhound bus trips to Los Angeles to pitch [...]
In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he [...]
On March 4, 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost. Some think the mafia [...]
On March 4, 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost. Some think the mafia [...]
This eponymous 1971 debut album by Anne Briggs, largely unavailable for 48 years, is widely regarded as a pillar of any folk collection. Re-issued here as part of the Topic Treasures series – [...]
Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise as a formal [...]
‘Shit Folk indeed!! Totally deranged jammer from the most proper beyond mental unit of Midwest psychedelia. The Crazy Doberman crew strikes again, this time with sounds described closest [...]
‘Stunning, hauntingly beautiful mountain music. Free, yet impeccably played gorgeous acoustic dulcimer, viola, banjo and guitar instrumentals that are both serene and transcendent. [...]
“There are few instruments more uniquely suited to capturing the beauty and ennui of the rural American midwest than the acoustic steel-string guitar. In the hands of a master, the range of [...]
2021 repress. “Jackson C. Frank’s eponymous album is the embodiment of folk legend. Issued in late 1965 on the UK Columbia label, it was for many years more famous for its producer [...]
“Pleased as punch are we to be reissuing Michael Hurley‘s long-lost 1984 album, Blue Navigator. Admittedly, Secret Seven and Mississippi collaborated on a dandy 8-track version a [...]
A dazzling display of 12-string melodicism, Arc Minutes is the second full-length LP from once New Englander, now Tokyo-based, instrumentalist Rob Noyes. If one had to pin an influence from the [...]
As progenitor and contemptuous poster boy for the music that came to be Cosmic American, Gram Parsons found himself mired in a recording career spent mostly in scouting the perimeters of chart [...]
A moody NYC masterpiece from the Village circa ‘66, pressed on clear vinyl at RTI! New York folk artist Fred Neil’s eponymous second album may not have been a sales smash, but it inspired [...]
Trading Places present a reissue of Heron‘s self-titled album, originally released in 1970. Short-lived British folk-rock band Heron was formed in the suburban town of Maidenhead, [...]
2021 repress . “Compiled from over eight hours of material, Love Is Overtaking Me reaches back further to Russell’s first compositions from the early `70s, the most rare and, at the [...]