GOLDBERG - Misty Flats

Original sealed copies of this 1974 release on MICHAEL YONKERS records! See the blurb from the reissue below.. "Barry Thomas Goldberg was 23 in 1974, the year his Minneapolis power pop group, The Batch, split up. Rudderless, he set about recording solo album Misty Flats, and though few would hear it in its day, he hit on something very special indeed. In 1974, the world was weary, the Vietnam War was ending, America was at this place where it didnt know where it was heading, it was the fumes of Watergate days, says Goldberg now. Id just left my band, and I didnt know where I was heading either. And thats what Misty Flats represents: neither high road nor low, but somewhere in between. Where The Batch were a harmony-drenched power pop band in the mold of Big Star and The Rubinoos, Misty Flats was an album of ecstatic desolation, an unhinged loner-folk gem that came from a unique place: I wanted to make the first punk rock album, and if Id recorded those songs with a band, maybe thats wh