Judee Sill Heart Food LP 1973 Promo Asylum Records SD 6053 w/INSERT Acid Archive

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Label: Asylum Records – SD 5063 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1973 Genre: Rock, Blues, Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk Rock, Folk A1 There's A Rugged Road 3:42 A2 The Kiss 4:32 A3 The Pearl 1:50 A4 Down Where The Valleys Are Low 4:12 A5 The Vigilante 3:48 B1 Soldier Of The Heart 3:30 B2 The Phoenix 2:35 B3 When The Bridegroom Comes Music By – Judee Sill Written-By – David Omer Bearden 4:10 B4 The Donor 7:55 Pressed By – PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN Arranged By, Composed By, Orchestrated By – Judee Sill Art Direction, Design – Anthony Hudson (2) Artwork [Cover Lettering] – Bob Maile Other [Special Assistance By] – Eddie Lynn Photography By – Ken Bright (2) Producer – Judee Sill Producer, Other [Audio Alchemy] – Henry Lewy Includes four-page bound insert inside the gatefold cover.

Heart Food is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Judee Sill, released by Asylum in March 1973[7] to acclaim but minimal sales. Sill wrote, arranged, and produced the album. As with her debut Judee Sill, it was reissued by Rhino Records in 2003, featuring new liner notes and extra demos and unreleased tracks.
Songs Some of the songs from Heart Food date back to the time of her debut album Judee Sill. "The Pearl" and "The Phoenix" (copyrighted in 1969) were originally recorded for the debut album in 1971 but were removed to make room for late inclusion "Jesus Was a Cross Maker". Instead, they were re-recorded for Heart Food. Sill had also been performing "The Vigilante" in 1971 when working as a support act.
Sill finished writing "The Kiss" around March 15, 1972, and "Down Where the Valleys Are Low" was also completed in early 1972. Songs like "The Kiss" reflect her fascination with hymnody and Christian imagery, while others, notably "Soldier of the Heart", feature fuller pop arrangements. The album is dedicated to Sill's then-boyfriend David Omer Bearden, who wrote the lyrics to the solo piano song "When the Bridegroom Comes". As with her debut, Sill's lyrics bear the hallmarks of her interest in the occult and Christian theology. The song "The Donor" features an ambitious and intricate choral arrangement built around hymnal chants of "Kyrie Eleison".
Live Sill continued to perform live with the release of Heart Food. She debuted "The Kiss" in a BBC session on March 23, 1972, saying it was written only seven or eight days before. She also played "Down Where the Valleys Are Low" at this session, aired on April 1, 1972. Sill also performed further BBC sessions in 1972 and 1973, including a TV concert in April 1972, a Radio 1 session on February 14, 1973, where she played six songs from Heart Food, and two sessions for the BBC TV show Old Grey Whistle Test; her performance of "The Kiss" at the 1973 session is available on DVD.

Personnel Judee Sill – guitar, keyboards, vocals, music arrangement Chris Ethridge – bass Bill Plummer – bass Jim Gordon – drums Emil Richards – percussion Bobbye Hall – percussion Doug Dillard – banjo Buddy Emmons – pedal steel guitar Lynn Blessing – vibraphone Louie Shelton – guitar Spooner Oldham – keyboards Gene Cipriano – saxophone Richard Perissi – French horn Vincent DeRosa – French horn Jesse Ehrlich – cello Ray Kelley – cello Assa Drori – violin Ronald Folsom – violin Harris Goldman – violin William Kurasch – violin Leonard Malarsky – violin Ralph Schaeffer – violin Tibor Zelig – violin David Schwartz – viola Carolyn Willis – vocals Oma Drake – vocals Gloria Jones – vocals Henry Lewy – producer, audio engineer