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Jim Ford: The Sounds Of Our Time - Harlan County...plus (CD)

1-CD-Album with 52-page booklet, 25 tracks, playing time 78:56 minutes.

Jim Ford - 'In Order To Get To It, You Got To Go Through It'

He was Sly Stone's best friend and Nick Lowe's biggest musical influence.
Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack and the Temptations have all recorded his songs. After one mythical album, 'Harlan County,' in 1969, he disappeared.
Many tried to find Jim Ford without any success, until Swedish music lover, L-P Anderson, tracked him down in the middle of nowhere, California.
CD contains the complete, legendary 'Harlan County' album - first time on vinyl! - plus unreleased masters.

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.

In March 2024, the editors of Rolling Stone (US) compiled a list of the '25 Best Country Soul Albums'. 'The Sounds Of Our Time' landed in 11th place:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-country-soul-albums-1234991975/carolina-chocolate-drops-genuine-negro-jig-1234992049/

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Interpret: Jim Ford
Album titlle: The Sounds Of Our Time - Harlan County...plus (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127167774
weight in Kg 0.2

Ford, Jim - The Sounds Of Our Time - Harlan County...plus (CD) CD 1
01	Harlan County	Jim Ford
02	I'm Gonna Make Her Love Me	Jim Ford
03	Changing Colors	Jim Ford
04	Dr Handy's Dandy Candy	Jim Ford
05	Love On My Brain	Jim Ford
06	Long Road Ahead	Jim Ford
07	Under Construction	Jim Ford
08	Working My Way To L.A.	Jim Ford
09	Spoonful	Jim Ford
10	To Make My Life Beautiful	Jim Ford
11	Big Mouth USA (slow version)	Jim Ford
12	36 Inches High	Jim Ford
13	Sounds Of Our Time	Jim Ford
14	Chain Gang	Jim Ford
15	I Wonder What They'll Do With Today	Jim Ford
16	Go Through Sunday	Jim Ford
17	She Turns My Radio On	Jim Ford
18	Mixed Green	Jim Ford
19	Happy Songs Sell Records, Sad Songs Sell Beer	Jim Ford
20	It Takes Two (To Make One)	Jim Ford
21	Big Mouth USA (uptempo version)	Jim Ford
22	Rising Sign	Jim Ford
23	Linda Comes Running	Jim Ford
24	Ramona	Jim Ford
25	Hanging From Your Lovin Tree	Jim Ford