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JIM FORD - UNISSUED CAPITOL ALBUM CD

JIM FORD - UNISSUED CAPITOL ALBUM CD

NZD32.11

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Artist:

FORD,JIM

Title:

UNISSUED CAPITOL ALBUM

Genre:

POP / ROCK

SKU:

4000127169785

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4 - 8 Business Days

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SKU/Barcode: 4000127169785

Jim Ford only released one album during his lifetime but it wasn't for lack of trying. A year after 1969's Harlan County, he recorded an album for Capitol Records that remained unreleased for 40 years, when Bear Family finally assembled and issued the untitled LP. There's no title and no background here, with the meager liner notes waving away its nonexistence with a "Sadly, for reasons that are best not mentioned in polite company, Jim Ford fell out with the record company executives who in turn shelved the singer/songwriter's planned album and refused to have anything further to do with him." After all this time, it would be nice to get a little background on the album's conception and destruction, something that wasn't quite charted in either of Bear Family's previous Ford collections, The Sounds of Our Time and Point of No Return. As it turns out, much of The Unissued Capitol Album popped up on those two discs -- all but two of these ten songs were on the previous reissues, a "full version" of the smoky, bluesy jam "You Just-A" (no short version showed up on the other discs) and an early version of the zodiac rock of "Rising Sign," which Ford cut three years down the road for Paramount. There may not be much new here, but hearing these ten songs collected together is nonetheless revealing, as they all hang together with a nicely subdued mood, sometimes veering on the introspective but mostly luxuriously lazy, hanging in the air with their slow, soulful sounds. This LP is decidedly mellower than Harlan County, never once sliding into boogie rock, and it sustains its mood well, retaining a hazy late-night vibe with some of Ford's best songs: "The Sounds of Our Time," an early version of "Big Mouth USA," "I Wonder What They'll Do with Today," "Go Through Sunday," the aching "Point of No Return," "Harry Hippie" (which Bobby Womack turned into a hit), and "Thirty Six Inches High" (which Nick Lowe covered on Jesus of Cool). As rich as this is, it's not commercially viable, so it's little wonder Capitol shelved it, and its delayed release serves it well: it's an album out of time.
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