My NTS
Live now
1
11:00 - 13:00

Friday mornings get scary - Bempah & JK elevating your vibe right in time for the weekend.

2
New York
11:00 - 12:00

A deeper look into the back catalogs of various artists.

Gary Higgins

Gary Higgins

Gary Higgins has been played on NTS in shows including All Fruits Ripe w/ Jack Sapsed, featured first on 12 April 2017. Songs played include Cuckoo, Down On The Farm and Stable The Spuds.

Gary Higgins (born in Sharon, CT) is an American free-folk musician. initially a member of the rock & roll band Random Concept, and then, concurrently, Wooden Wheel, in October 1972, when just about to go to jail for drugs offences, he recorded the album "Red Hash".

Years later, a Drag City employee got it from Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and became obsessed with the album and tracking Higgins down. He finally found him working as a nurse in Connecticut and discovered the reason why so few of his one and only album were pressed. Higgins recorded "Red Hash" knowing he was about to go prison on drug charges and it was hard to set up distribution when incarcerated. After Higgins' release, he drifted away from the west coast to Connecticut.

Drag City renewed interest in this elusive classic when they reissued it last year. It may be decades late, but acclaim is finally coming to him. Higgins' hushed psych-folk songs fit in perfectly with the folk artists such as Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and the like.

In 2009 his second album, Seconds, was released . An EP, "A Dream a While Back", an album mainly consisting of pre-Red Hash material, was released in early 2011.

read more

Gary Higgins

Gary Higgins has been played on NTS in shows including All Fruits Ripe w/ Jack Sapsed, featured first on 12 April 2017. Songs played include Cuckoo, Down On The Farm and Stable The Spuds.

Gary Higgins (born in Sharon, CT) is an American free-folk musician. initially a member of the rock & roll band Random Concept, and then, concurrently, Wooden Wheel, in October 1972, when just about to go to jail for drugs offences, he recorded the album "Red Hash".

Years later, a Drag City employee got it from Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and became obsessed with the album and tracking Higgins down. He finally found him working as a nurse in Connecticut and discovered the reason why so few of his one and only album were pressed. Higgins recorded "Red Hash" knowing he was about to go prison on drug charges and it was hard to set up distribution when incarcerated. After Higgins' release, he drifted away from the west coast to Connecticut.

Drag City renewed interest in this elusive classic when they reissued it last year. It may be decades late, but acclaim is finally coming to him. Higgins' hushed psych-folk songs fit in perfectly with the folk artists such as Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and the like.

In 2009 his second album, Seconds, was released . An EP, "A Dream a While Back", an album mainly consisting of pre-Red Hash material, was released in early 2011.

Original source Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Cuckoo
Gary Higgins
Nufusmoon1973
Down On The Farm
Gary Higgins
Nufusmoon1973
Stable The Spuds
Gary Higgins
Nufusmoon1973
Telegraph Towers
Gary Higgins
Nufusmoon1973
Thicker Than A Smokey
Gary Higgins
Nufusmoon1973
Last Great Sperm Whale
Gary Higgins
Drag City2008