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Digitally remastered edition of the 1972 solo album from the leader of Psychedelic Folk rockers Pearls Before Swine. PBS appeared on three of the tracks on Stardancer, but on most of the songs Rapp was supported by Nashville session musicians, led by Charlie McCoy and supported by Steve McCord. Rapp stated that Stardancer was the first album since the first Pearls album, One Nation Underground, over which he had full control. The fierce anti-war song 'Fourth Day of July', with its references to "the broken children of Vietnam", was widely played in underground circles of the time. The lighthearted 'Summer of '55' contains some of Rapp's cleverest aphorisms, such as "When the day breaks / the pieces fall on you". Two of his other songs, 'Stardancer' and 'For The Dead In Space', reflect on themes of loss against a background of space travel and can be seen as reworkings of Pearls Before Swine's earlier 'Rocket Man'. Lemon. 2009.