Jim Sullivan "U.F.O." (Self Titled) CCR-5000 - RARE 1970 Gatefold - VG++ READ

$

170

JIM SULLIVAN (Self Titled) aka "U.F.O"

 1970 Gatefold - Century City Records

Very Rare - CCR 5000 - Very Rare

Has penned inscription on inside cover that reads:

"Barb - I hope you enjoy. Next time you're in Calif. please say hello", (Signed - Unidentifiable).

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U.F.O. is the debut album by psychedelic folk singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan, released in 1969. The album was unpopular upon release, but has gained a cult following in part due to the mysterious disappearance of Sullivan. While it is commonly known as U.F.O., a 1970 pressing on Century City Records (CCR 5000) titled the album as simply Jim Sullivan. The album deals with supernatural and extraterrestrial themes, topics that Sullivan was obsessed with. "Rosey" was released as a single from the album in 1970 on Century City Records. This very rare 1970 pressing was a better, more balanced mix of his music.

Jim Sullivan was the kind of California character who seemed to have stepped straight out of a Pynchon or DeLillo novel — a 6-foot-2 singer and songwriter known as Sully with a magnetic personality and a handlebar mustache. His dramatic psych-folk songs were spacious, cinematic and edged with mystic, lonesome brooding. His social circle included actors and Hollywood hangers-on, and he’d had brushes with fame, including an uncredited part in “Easy Rider” with his friend Dennis Hopper.

On his 1970 debut album he sang of beckoning highways, of aliens, of an Arizona ghost town, of a man who looked “so natural” in death it was clearly his time to go. Six years later, the 35-year-old Sullivan disappeared in Santa Rosa, N.M. On the front seat of his recovered gray VW bug were his ID, his beloved 12-string Guild guitar, and a box of his two albums, “U.F.O.” and the 1972 LP “Jim Sullivan.”

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