Lotti Golden | Motor-Cycle

An ambitious suite of phenomenal pop power and originality, Motor-Cycle chronicles Lotti Golden’s immersion in New York City’s late-Sixties counterculture. Underscored by a genre-bending soundscape, the action plays out from New York’s East Village and Lower East Side all the way to North Carolina and back, populated with a coterie of philosopher-lovers, faux gurus, grifters, malcontents, and groupies. Golden would later say that she wrote her memoir as music and lyrics because “a book is too flat.”

Lotti Golden’s landmark debut album, Motor-Cycle, is re-mastered for LP and appearing on CD for the first time after being out of print for more than 50 years, joined by exclusive liner notes with essays from Richard Hell and David Toop, along with archival photos, memorabilia, and more. In addition, the Motor-Cycle CD includes two rarely heard songs: the Atlantic single, “Sock It To Me Baby/It’s Your Thing, and “Annabelle With Bells (Home Made Girl).”