Jim Sullivan - UFO

* Ultra rare 1969 private press psych-folk-rock masterpiece

* First time on CD, first LP reissue

* Massive UK press support including MOJO LEAD REVIEW, FEATURES IN WORD, THE GUARDIAN, SHINDIG and
THE TIMES. Very positive reviews also confirmed in UNCUT, RECORD COLLECTOR and Q. Judging by the response
this album looks set to feature prominently in 2010's Reissue Of The Year selections.

* Featuring the legendary Wrecking Crew (Beach Boys, Phil Spector)

* Beautifully crated gatefold and 180 gram LP

* 48-page CD booklet w/ unseen photos, lyrics, and archival newspaper articles

* Check out the video documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsIouGN0Wr8

* 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.

* U.F.O. 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). U.F.O. is a slice of
American pop music filtered from the murky depths of Los Angeles, by way of the deep south.

* Yet, the record went largely unnoticed, and Jim simply moved on, releasing a further album on the Playboy label. But
by 1975, his marriage breaking up, Jim left for Nashville and the promise of a new life as a sessioneer in the home of
C&W. That’s where it gets hazy.

* We know he was stopped by cops for swerving on the highway in Santa Rosa. We know he was taken to a local police
station, found to be sober, and told to go to a local motel to get some rest. Some time later, his car was spotted on a
ranch belonging to the local Genetti family, who confronted him about his business there. The next day Jim’s car was
found 26 miles from town, abandoned. His car and his hotel room contained, among other things, his twelve-string guitar,
his wallet, his clothes, and several copies of his second album, but no note, and no Jim. It was as if he had simply
vanished into thin air.

* Jim’s family travelled out to join search parties looking for him, the local papers printed missing person stories, but the
search proved fruitless. Around the same time, the local sheriff retired and the Genettis moved to Hawaii. His
disappearance remains a mystery, so much so that Light In The Attic spent years retracing Jim’s last known whereabouts
including a recent trip to Santa Rosa. Like many before them, the label returned with more questions than answers.

* One thing is certain, U.F.O. stands as an eerie masterpiece by an artist who left us far too soon.

TRACKLIST:

1. Jerome 2. Plain As Your Eyes Can See 3. Roll Back The time 4. Whistle Stop 5. Rosey 6. Highways 7.
U.F.O. 8. So Natural 9. Johnny 10. Sandman

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