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12 vinyl LP w/ download code Previously unreleased another lost full-length album. First,... more

Jim Ford: Allergic To Love (LP, 180g Vinyl)

12 vinyl LP w/ download code
  • Previously unreleased another lost full-length album.
  • First, unique opportunity to hear what Nick Lowe so rightfully described as like Barry Manilow reaching for a new brilliant horizon.
  • Culled from the tapes found by Bear Family Records in Jim Fords mobile home in  Mendocino County, California.
  • Re-mastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180gram vinyl, housed in a deluxe sleeve.
  • Awesome production from the 1980s.
  • From the maker of the legendary Harlan County album and five more top selling anthologies on Bear Family.

When Bear Familys L-P Anderson discovered the long lost and mythical country-soul icon, Jim Ford, in a Mendocino County trailer park back in 2006, we got to hear his full life story which is more thrilling and adventurous than most Hollywood manuscripts. We also found stacks and stacks of master tapes and demos that Ford stored in a pile of old clothes on the floor of his trailer. The recordings are of extraordinary quality. To this date Bear Family has released five albums containing material compiled from this musical goldmine.
'Allergic To Love' is the sixth installment in Bear Familys Jim Ford ressurrection campaign series. The time is ripe for some truly fabulous mid-80s recordings. Jim told us that Sly Stone is featured on some of these tracks. The production is awesome, and so are the songs. Prepare yourself for a musical trip way-out of this world.

Track listing:
A1.    Allergic To Love
A2.     She Turns My Radio On
A3.     I Ain't Holding Nothin
A4.    Just When I Thought She Was Gone
A5.     Rising Sign
B1.     I'd Be Ahead If I Can Quit While...
B2.     Roy Boy
B3.     Love Attack
B4.    Born Again
B5.    Me & Marlon

More Jim Ford on Bear Family:

The Sounds Of Our Time Harlan County plus BCD 16777
Big Mouth USA The unissued Paramount album  BCD 16786, BAF 18004 (180gram vinyl)
The unissued Capitol album BCD 16978, BAF 18005 (180gram vinyl)

Point Of New Return Previously unissued masters, a lost 45, and rare demos BCD 16993
Demolition Expert Rare acoustic demos BCD 17257

Article properties: Jim Ford: Allergic To Love (LP, 180g Vinyl)

  • Interpret: Jim Ford

  • Album titlle: Allergic To Love (LP, 180g Vinyl)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode BAF
  • Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
  • Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
  • Record Grading Mint (M)
  • Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
  • Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
  • Artikelart LP

  • EAN: 5397102180392

  • weight in Kg 0.2
Ford, Jim - Allergic To Love (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1
01 Allergic To Love Jim Ford
02 She Turns My Radio On Jim Ford
03 I Ain't Holding Nothin' Jim Ford
04 Just When I Thought She Was Gone Jim Ford
05 Rising Sign Jim Ford
06 I'd Be Jim Ford
07 Ahead If I Can Quit While I’m Behind Jim Ford
08 Roy Boy Jim Ford
09 Love Attack Jim Ford
10 Born Again Jim Ford
11 Me & Marlon Jim Ford
Jim Ford 'In Order To Get To It, You Got To Go Through It' He is Sly Stone's best friend... more
"Jim Ford"

Jim Ford

'In Order To Get To It, You Got To Go Through It'

He is Sly Stone's best friend and Nick Lowe's biggest musical influence. Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack and the Temptations have all recorded his songs. But after one mythical album, 'Harlan County,' in 1969, he disappeared. Many tried to find Jim Ford without any success, until I tracked him down in the middle of nowhere, California.

Let's rewind to Los Angeles in the spring 1971. The party inside the big house on 783 Bel Air Road had been going for more than four days. Nobody knew what time of day it was because Sly Stone, who rented the house from John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & Papas, didn't allow clocks inside the building. On the living room table there were long lines of white powder, and Ike Turner along with his friend Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, partook. On a sofa Bobby Womack was getting intimate with a young lady who seemed to have traded both school and parents for a more exciting lifestyle in California. Sly Stone placed guards with machine guns and dogs by the entrance just to make sure nothing interfered with his freaked out life. The fifth Beatle, keyboardist Billy Preston, wore a hat that would make the most flamboyant character from 'Shaft' green with envy while Miles Davis mingled among the crowd. It was rock 'n' roll Babylon. Sly Stone was calm, sitting on a sofa listening to a bearded white guy dressed in overalls who spoke with a down home southern drawl. His name was Jim Ford.

In 1969 Jim Ford released his first and only album, 'Harlan County.' Musically, it inhabited the same territory as 'From Elvis In Memphis' or Dan Penn's 'Nobody's Fool,' but Ford's record was every bit their equal. Hot country guitars blended with New Orleans styled piano laid over a bedrock rhythm section of hard-driving, sweat-drenched funk and soul. Jim Ford's vocal style recalls the colourful medicine show acts that toured rural Kentucky at the beginning of last century. Ballads like Love On My Brain and Changing Colors are enduringly beautiful. Even now, it only seems a matter of time before someone samples the grooves of danceable tracks like I'm Gonna Make Her Love Me or Under Construction.

'Harlan County' didn't make big waves back then, but the number of admirers has grown every year…and this in itself is surprising considering how hard it was to find the LP. Many tried to find out what happened to Ford without much success. But then, when English pub rock legend Nick Lowe was in Los Angeles to produce an album with the Blasters in 1981, Jim Ford stepped into the studio with a bag of demo cassettes. Lowe was excited to see his hero and asked what he had been up to. Ford whipped the cassettes back into the bag and left. Since then, few have seen him.

After two years of advanced detective work, a good amount of old-fashioned luck, and some lo-fi transatlantic phone calls, I found myself at a car rental desk in San Francisco airport with the idea of driving all day up the incomparably beautiful Highway 1 to the place where Jim Ford lives.

On California's northern coast, I checked into a motel where most of the other guests seemed to be conservationists working to preserve the surrounding redwood forests. In the tourist brochure, the area is described as 'The Place To Go When You Want To Get Away From It All' and the roof of the local post office had a sign saying 'Edge Of The Earth'. The bartender at the local honky-tonk said that it's almost impossible to use a cell phone around there: it's permanently out of range.

Excerpt from BCD16777 - Jim Ford The Sounds Of Our Time (Harlan County...plus)
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/ford-jim-the-sounds-of-our-time-harlan-county...plus.html
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Customer evaluation for "Allergic To Love (LP, 180g Vinyl)"
16 Apr 2017

Einfach geil

Mir war Jim Ford vollkommen unbekannt.
Erstaunlich, was für gute Musik einem jahrelang vorenthalten wurde und jetzt endlich auf Vinyl zu bekommen ist.

11 Apr 2017

Miami Vice Feeling auf Vinyl

Einer der Väter des Country/Soul, der vor einer Ewigkeit mit 'Harlan County' einen LP-Klassiker aufgenommen hat. Offenbar waren diese Aufnahmen lange verschollen. Zum Glück hat Bear Family sie ausgebuddelt und viel Aufwand betrieben, um sie auf Vinyl gut klingen zu lassen. Musikalisch weit weg von seiner Anfängen, experimentiert Ford mit eher ungewöhnlichen Sounds. Könnte auch der Soundtrack zu einem Film aus der Miami-Vice-Ecke sein. Echt cooles Cover!!

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Tracklist
Ford, Jim - Allergic To Love (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1
01 Allergic To Love
02 She Turns My Radio On
03 I Ain't Holding Nothin'
04 Just When I Thought She Was Gone
05 Rising Sign
06 I'd Be
07 Ahead If I Can Quit While I’m Behind
08 Roy Boy
09 Love Attack
10 Born Again
11 Me & Marlon