Singer-songwriter Ron Nagle was proudly out of step in acid-rock San Francisco: leading the Who-ish pop-art band the Mystery Trend, then issuing this sweet-and-salty 1970 meal of prescient roots rock and slippery romanticism. This two-CD reissue has demos that show how Nagle got to his lost-classic blend of proto-Rockpile brawls ("Marijuana Hell," "Sister Cora") and, in "Frank's Store," balladry laden with Randy Newman's strings and written from Tom Waits' future bar stool.
Bad Rice (Reissue)

American ceramist and sculptor Ron Nagle, San Francisco, California, 1984. (Photo by Chris Felver/Getty Images)
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