JIM SULLIVAN "U.F.O." Cassette Tape

Ultra rare 1969 private press psych-folk-rock masterpiece – featuring the legendary Wrecking Crew (Beach Boys, Phil Spector).

In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he fell foul of a local family with alleged mafia ties. Some think he was abducted by aliens.

By coincidence–or perhaps not–Jim’s 1969 debut album was titled U.F.O. Originally released in tiny numbers on a private label, U.F.O. was truly lost until Light in the Attic begun a years-long quest to give it the full release it always deserved–and to solve the mystery of Sullivan’s disappearance. Only one of those things happened.

U.F.O. was a different beast to the one-man-and-his-guitar stuff Jim had been doing on stage; the LP was a fully realized 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 with 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). U.F.O. is a slice of American pop music filtered from the murky depths of Los Angeles by way of the deep south.

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