The Use of Ashes

by Pearls Before Swine

The Use of Ashes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1970
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:09
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Bill Pippin, Kenny Buttrey, John Duke, Charlie McCoy, David Briggs, Charles R. Rothschild, Elizabeth Rapp, Hutch Davie, Mac Gayden, Buddy Spicher, Tom Rapp, Peter H. Edminston, Norbert Putnam

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in Nashville with top-tier session musicians, Tom Rapp鈥檚 intensely poetic songwriting is enveloped in delicate, acoustic-driven chamber folk arrangements. The album is most famous for containing the haunting 'The Jeweler', a song detailing the horrors of the Holocaust that would later inspire the melody for Leonard Cohen's 'Rocket'.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, folk, acoustic, chamber, literary, male-vocals, orchestral, experimental

Tracklist

  1. The Jeweler (2:48)
  2. From the Movie of the Same Name (2:21)
  3. Rocket Man (3:06)
  4. God Save the Child (3:08)
  5. Song About a Rose (2:21)
  6. Tell Me Why (3:43)
  7. Margery (3:03)
  8. The Old Man (3:16)
  9. Riegal (3:13)
  10. When the War Began (5:07)

Credits

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