Jim Ford only released one album during his lifetime but it wasn't for lack of trying. A year after 1969's Harlan County, he recorded an album for Capitol Records that remained unreleased for 40 years, when Bear Family finally assembled and issued the untitled LP. There's no title and no background here, with the meager liner notes waving away its nonexistence with a "Sadly, for reasons that are best not mentioned in polite company, Jim Ford fell out with the record company executives who in...   [ read more ]

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Three years after failing to get an album out the door for Capitol, Jim Ford tried once again at Paramount Records. He got a lot farther this time, issuing a 45 -- "Big Mouth USA" backed with "Rising Sign," two songs he cut in slower, hazier form for Capitol -- and even having an acetate of a finished album circulate before Paramount pulled the plug. Bear Family resurrects this LP as Big Mouth USA: The Unissued Paramount Album, the fourth entry in their ongoing Jim Ford reissu...   [ read more ]

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Jim Ford only released one album, 1969's Harlan County, during his life but he had plenty of stray singles that accumulate over the years. Most of these found their way onto Bear Family's 2007 release The Sounds of Our Time, which reissued the full Harlan County album, along with these 45-rpm rarities and unheard demo tapes. As Bear Family was compiling that superb disc, Ford revealed to journalist L-P Anderson that there was a whole bunch of unheard tapes, not sitting in the vault ...   [ read more ]

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