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Tom Rapp, '60s Folk Experimentalist And Civil Rights Attorney, Dead At 70

Rapp's band, Pearls Before Swine, sold an impressive number of records and contained strains of experimentalism that reverberated for decades after. He thought it was all fine.
Tom Rapp photographed in 1998 at the Haddonfield train station in Philadelphia.

Tom Rapp, a civil rights attorney and musician best known for his late-'60s and early-'70s recordings under the name Pearls Before Swine, has died while in hospice care at his home in Melbourne, Fla., his publicist confirmed to NPR Music. He was 70 years old.

Like many of his generation, Rapp was inspired and . But it was hearing 's "Blowin'

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