Straight from the Throat, his second album, released in July 1976 by Harvest Records, reveals the musician at his most authentic: a "howling philosopher," cynical but fair, insolent and melancholic, looking at the world in search of truth. In Straight from the Throat, he shouts, screams, struggles, and indulges in a ritualistic abandon, in an avant-folk and cosmic style that, at times, transforms into seismic rock.