LP - Limited Edition 'Alien Highways Splatter' Blue with Black Splatter Vinyl. Newly remastered. Ultra rare 1969 private press psych-folk-rock masterpiece featuring the legendary Wrecking Crew (Beach Boys, Phil Spector).
A seventh son of a seventh son, Jim Sullivan was a west coast should-have-been, an Irish-American former high school quarterback whose gift for storytelling earned him cult status in the Malibu bar where he performed nightly. Sullivan was always on the edge of fame; hanging out with movie stars like Harry Dean Stanton, performing on the Jose Feliciano show, even stealing a cameo in the ultimate hippie movie, easy rider.
UFO was a different beast to the one-man-and-his-guitar stuff Jim had been doing on stage; instead, it was a fully realised album of scope and imagination, a folk-rock record with its head in the stratosphere. Sullivan's voice is deep and expressive like Fred Neil with a weathered and worldly Americana sound like Joe South, pop songs that aren't happy - but filled with despair. the album is punctuated with a string section (that recalls David Axelrod), other times a Wurlitzer piano provides the driving groove (as if Memphis great Jim Dickinson was running the show).
UFO is a slice of American pop music filtered from the murky depths of Los Angeles, by way of the deep south.
Newly remastered. Featuring the legendary Wrecking Crew (Beach Boys, Phil Spector).
Tracklist:
A1. Jerome
A2. Plain As Your Eyes Can See
A3. Roll Back The Tide
A4. Whistle Stop
A5. Rosey
B1. Highways
B2. U.F.O.
B3. So Natural
B4. Johnny
B5. Sandman