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ARTIST
TITLE
Tommy Jay's Short Sagas of Sorrow: The Lost 1974 Tapes
FORMAT
LP

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CATALOG #
HRZ 236LP HRZ 236LP
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RELEASE DATE
7/24/2026

"A true Ohio outsider legend in every sense, Tommy Jay along with his producer/co-hort Mike Rep were recording like crazy in the mid-1970s. Here is an unreleased 1974 studio album with another book of classics intertwined within, and if you've been following Tommy's hypnotic trajectory with Mike Rep, True Believers, and the Harrisburg Players over the years, it's another long-awaited reward for your faith in this underground system you're invested in. Pure Ohio Gold as they say, and as a recently unearthed recording, it is presented it for the first time anywhere, solidifying Tommy Jay's pillar-like influence in the sick and twisted Harrisburg underground. Forever underrated, Tommy shines hard here for the singer-songwriter era, keeping that creeping 'punk edge' just under the surface for extra tension, even in 1974. In another world Tommy Jay would be as well-known as Skip Spence or Ron House, but his star still rises, albeit slowly and surely. Much like a companion LP to The Grim-O-Comix Sequence and his essential Tall Tales of Trauma LP, Short Sagas of Sorrow fills yet another void with its deep lo-fi goodness that has no problem hitting all of your unprotected sweet spots."