Jim Sullivan – U.F.O. LP alien highways splatter wax

By coincidence - or perhaps not - Jim's 1969 debut album was titled U. F. O. Released in tiny numbers on a private label, it too was truly lost, until Seattle's Light In The Attic Records begun a years-long quest to give it the full release it deserves - and to solve the mystery of Sullivan's disappearance. Only one of those things happened. For record collectors, some albums are considered impossible to get hold of, records so rare you could sit on eBay for years and not get a sniff of a copy. U. F. O. is one of those albums. 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. Friend and actor Al Dobbs thought he could change all that, and founded a label - Monnie Records - to release Jim's album, enlisting the assistance of Phil Spector's legendary sessioneers The Wrecking Crew to do so. That's Don Randi, Earl Palmer and Jimmy Bond you can hear, the latter also acting as producer and arranger.

Label: Light In The Attic – LITA 206, Light In The Attic – LITA 206

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Alien Highways Splatter Wax

Country: US

Released: 2023

Genre: Rock

Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

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