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Dick Rivers - Via Lucifer (1966)

Dick Rivers, born Hervé Forneri, took his stage name from Elvis Presley's character Deke Rivers in the film Loving You. Along with Johnny Hallyday, he introduced rock n' roll to France, though most of his recordings are pretty pedestrian to my ears. Not so this psych pop sitar fabulosity.

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227: Jim Sullivan // U.F.O.

U.F.O. Jim Sullivan 1969, Monnie

Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O. has become one of the best-known private press records of the late 1960s, thanks largely to the tireless efforts of Light in the Attic’s Matt Sullivan (no relation), who by his own admission became obsessed with Jim’s music and the mystery of his 1975 disappearance in the New Mexico desert. Backed by members of the Wrecking Crew, the session aces who served as Phil Spector’s house band, U.F.O. is a fine folk rock record that at times leaps up into something more (“Highways,” “Jerome,” “Sandman”). Since Jim’s finally received the flowers that eluded him in life, I wanted to use this space to highlight six lesser-known private press folkies you might also want to explore.

Tarp Clancy

The reclusive Clancy recorded a series of 10” EPs in the early 1960s at his rudimentary cabin studio in Muhlenberg County, the heart of Kentucky coal country. An elderly former miner who had lost most of his picking hand when a vial of nitroglycerine he was transporting ignited in his glove, Clancy homebrewed a mechanical strumming prosthesis. He would loop a cord around his neck that allowed him to cleverly control the tempo of his metal claw by moving his head and shoulder, though over time he began to suffer from nerve damage and light-headedness from the way it constricted blood flow to his brain. The EPs, recorded solo on acoustic guitar and dulcimer, have a poignant jerkiness to them that matches his lyrical obsessions with isolation, tribulation, and grisly industrial accidents. They were distributed in extremely limited quantities through ads in the local Baptist church’s circular and were forgotten until one of the discs was discovered by Brooklyn DJ Anathius Taylor at a goodwill while visiting his family home (Beechland Plantation). Clancy himself disappeared (nearly) without a trace sometime around 1970, though in 1985 a claw of his design was discovered buried under the Jefferson Davis memorial in Fairview, Kentucky during routine maintenance on the obelisk.

Key song: “Cold Fingers”

Remy “Mad Crawdad” Beauregard

Beauregard grew up in a vibrant 1920s Louisiana Cajun community and learned to play guitar from his father. His parents raised him to venerate Governor (and later Senator) Huey Long, and the day Long was assassinated was the day Remy Beauregard would say he lost his innocence. “It was like being told they killed Santa Claus,” he later wrote in his journals, “I felt all the magic and hope in the world drain from me in a matter of seconds.” Hopelessness drove the young man to street crime, joining the infamous Les Gamins gang, and he soon ran afoul of the law. A boy called Remy Beauregard went into juvie, and a violent criminal called “The Mad Crawdad” came out, albeit one with a remarkable gift for the accordion.

Remy had a few close calls with greatness: after visiting 439 Baronne a few times, and even getting to jam with the legendary George Girard, Orin Blackstone made moves to begin recording the young man. Only two recordings survive, “Where, Mother?”/ “Dandelions” and “I've Got Nine” / “Life Will Screw You,” the latter an extremely rare shellac 10" thought lost for decades. Unfortunately, another run-in with the law hampered his burgeoning musical career, as Remy bludgeoned a man to death in a drunken bar fight, spending the next six weeks in prison. While in the slammer, Remy found Jesus, and upon his release the newly sober musician recorded the Forgiveness LP. It is a desperate and cynical record, the product of a self-loathing man seeking a salvation he knows he will never achieve. His sobriety would be short-lived, and he drank himself to death in 1957 having lived a life in near-complete obscurity. His final single, released posthumously, was titled “Why Did You Leave Us, Mr. Long?”

A career-spanning compilation is set to be released by Light in the Attic records in late 2024, titled Crawdad Sings! with liner notes by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. — D.J.C.

Key Song: “Life Will Screw You”

Jeramie Laramy

The Vietnam War inspired some of the most powerful protest songs of the 20th century, from “Eve of Destruction” to “Napalm Sticks to Kids.” But Jeramie Laramy stood virtually alone in 1975 when he sang the words “first my mother left me / with a man called Dan / then my country abandoned the brave people / of South Vietnam.” Laramy was a Canadian who renounced his citizenship and moved to San Francisco, California in 1967 in hopes of being drafted, but due to his complicated residency situation he was deemed ineligible. Referred to in Jerry Garcia’s memoirs as “a vicious simpleton,” he nevertheless took up the guitar and began busking, with primitive yowlers like “Mr. Saigon” and “Hippy Dachau” anticipating punk rock by nearly a decade. Laramy's music won him few admirers in the burgeoning counter-culture, but he was embraced by Hells Angels-affiliate Andre “Baby” Jane, who bought him studio time he used to record 1972's Jungle Mower LP, a commercial failure. After an intense, inadvertent psychedelic experience at the Berdoo Angels' clubbouse, Laramy's music became more abstract, culminating in the geographically-confused psych-folk double A-side “Seoul Stealers” / “I Wished Upon a Machine Gun.” He disappeared in 1976.

Key song: “I Wished Upon a Machine Gun”

Liesl Eddy

Alan Lomax called Liesl Eddy “the only woman prison singer who mattered.” Mississippi Fred McDowell called her “that miserable mute bitch.” Eddy was no one’s idea of a sweetheart, but even a cursory scan of her biography makes plain why she had to be tough. Raised Liesl Edzurbriggen by stern Swiss-German Calvinist tenant farmers in dustbowl-era Kansas, her parents forbade her from speaking in the belief that the family was being spied upon by papists. As she aged into young adulthood, Eddy’s muteness brought her into frequent, violent conflict with townsfolk in the nearby community of Arkansas, and she was eventually sentenced to eight years in prison after braining a local furrier with a cast-iron skillet.

Despite suffering from Marfan syndrome, Eddy was tremendously strong, and there was concern that she was too dangerous for women’s prison. Thus, in 1934 she became the only female inmate at Georgia’s notorious Lillyfold Penitentiary, where she worked breaking rocks on a chain gang. It was in prison however that Eddy’s unusual vocal talents were discovered. Despite her continued refusal to speak, she possessed a deep, southern-accented singing voice, and it was said that she alone could drown out a 20-man gang. Certainly it’s her lungs that stand out on the Lomax-recorded album of chain gang songs and spirituals Let Us Be Released (From Her) (1937), on which the tension between Eddy and her fellow prisoners is palpable.

Following a violent brawl that saw six men injured, Eddy was moved to solitary confinement, where Lomax was able to convince prison authorities to allow her use of a cigar box guitar. Eddy’s surprisingly vulgar, raunchy country blues tunes like “Hogmeat Driver Rag” and “No’ Mo’ Cone Pone” led the blushing musicologist to suppress her recordings for decades, though due to a clerical error “Liesl’s Idyll” was included on some early pressings of Lead Belly’s Negro Sinful Songs in 1939 before the mistake was noted. Eddy’s trail goes cold after her release in 1942, but following Lomax’s death her work was rediscovered. Her catalogue was issued for the first time in 2015 as Sugah On Mah Tongue: The Silenced Sessions on Lena Dunham’s Muff Trade Records.

Key song: “Liesl’s Idyll”

Cleodora Thanks

Raised by roving bead peddlers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Cleodora Thanks relocated to Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and founded a rooming house where a number of the brightest names in folk music spent time, including Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and Horace Plenty. Although her cooking was so noxious Laura Nyro was reportedly briefly hospitalized by a casserole, Thanks was regarded as a mother figure by many of her tenants. Dylan made her the subject of his unreleased song “Big Momma I Don’t Know Blues,” while Joan Baez has claimed Thanks made uncredited contributions to a number of early Joni Mitchell songs. Thanks’ own culinary-obsessed music, which joins the earthy blues of a Bessie Smith with the subtlety of Bette Midler amid hints of gypsy jazz and klezmer, was largely unknown in her time, and she vanished in 1983 on her way to a state fair near Syracuse. New York-based archivist Karl Nard of Swede Nothing Records discovered a cache of unsold LPs in the basement of Thanks’ former rooming house after his uncle purchased the property. Thanks' soon to be reissued work represents a crucial missing lunch in the story of mid-century American folk music.

Key song: “Peanut Brittle Elegie”

Jimmy Whaley the Folk-Song-Singing Crocodile

Jimmy Whaley was a crocodile that sang folk songs. Believed to be an urban legend for years until his existence was confirmed by Desmond Morris, the man who discovered an elephant who could paint and made a BBC documentary about how women don't know what bicycles look like and desire horses. As Jimmy was only able to speak English while singing, most of what we know of his life is what has been parsed from those songs that have been tentatively identified as autobiographical. He was probably born in the Nile River, before stowing away in a cargo ship in the Suez Canal and making his way to Boston, and then the Appalachians, where he lived and sang for locals with a banjo he plucked with a back claw. His life was cut short when he was tragically shot after being speciesally profiled as an alligator by a poacher in East Texas. His remains are displayed at the Stephen Foster Folk Music Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the form of a handbag. An anthology of Jimmy's early work comprising several selections from the Great American Songbook, AmeriCroc, is forthcoming from Smithsonian Croakways Records. — D.J.C.

Key song: “America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)”

Prepared with the assistance of D. John Christie, Osgoode Hall Law Special Collections

#jim sullivan #'60s music #private press #'60s folk #folk #tarp clancy #cleodora thanks #liesl eddy #remy beauregard #jimmy whaley #light in the attic #jeramie laramy #vinyl record #music review #this is so stupid #the wrecking crew

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1/8/2019 Journal entry

#art #art journal #journaling #drawing #journal #journal playlist #inking #Jim Sullivan

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Play ▶ Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad 

Tracks (Various Artists) If You Don't Leave Me Alone (I'm Gonna Find Somebody That Will) - Delbert & Glen The Feeling Is Right - Bobby Hatfield Catfish Mud Dance - The Ventures Charlie The Fer De Lance - The First Edition (Kenny Rodgers) Potatoes - Bones Drunk And Dirty - Rick Roberts Harley Street - The Cornbread Everything's Leaving - Wanda Jackson Mail Order Mystics - Chris Smither Long Road Ahead - Jim Ford The Joke - Howl The Good Working Man Blues - Charlie McCoy Apocalypse 1969 - John Buck Wilkin Ghost Riders - Dennis Linde Home - Browning Bryant It Can't Be Turned Around - Bobby Lance Asphalt Outlaw Hero - Lonnie Mack Scarlett Revisited - Mike Hurst Roll On - Jessi Colter Living On The Run - David Allan Coe It's Been A Good Day - Tom Fogerty I Wonder - Ron Davies Empty White Houses - Redeye Puppet Man - Tom Jones Nobody Knows - Cymbal And Clinger Sweet Thing - Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret Tailpipe - Vernon Wray Sandman - Jim Sullivan

#Music Compilation #Country Rock #Blues #Soul #The Ventures #The First Edition #Jessi Colter #Tom Jones #Lee Hazlewood #Ann-Margret #Jim Sullivan #David Allan Coe #Wanda Jackson #Chris Smither

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Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple (2009)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I never thought I’d see a movie that would have me looking back fondly at Happily N’Ever After but here I am, wondering if the original really was THAT bad. Yes, it was but this direct-to-DVD follow-up is even worse.

After her mother dies, Snow White (voiced by Helen Niedwick) grows up spoiled, caring only for the fame and fortune of royalty. The kingdom’s chances of a “happily ever after” ending is in danger when Mambo (Jim Sullivan) and Munk (Kirk Thornton) accidentally tip the scales of good and evil and give Lady Vain (Cindy Robinson) - who hates Snow White - the means to seduce now-widowed King Cole (Kelly Brewster) and become queen herself. Banished from the kingdom through Vain’s machinations, Snow White must learn kindness to save her home and people.

This is one of the worst-looking movies I’ve ever seen. People sometimes joke about first-generation computer imagery looking like something out of a video game but this time, no one is exaggerating. Every character is stiff, lifeless, and moves around like a cloud. The backgrounds are missing textures, objects seem misaligned, and everything is generally ugly. When characters speak, their mouths are stretched in any which direction. - You’ve seen better lip-synch from one of those rubber talking fishes hanging on the wall. It’s an eye-sore to watch and the experience is made worse by the garbage story.

You’ll notice none of the voice actors from the original film return. It's the same for the characters. Only the dwarves, the fairy godmother and both Mumbo & Munk make an appearance. Those last two add so little to the story they should’ve been cut. They weren't because this would’ve made this sequel even more tenuously tied to the 2006 Shrek wannabe and it would’ve also slashed precious minutes from the 70-minute running time. Even at barely over an hour, this feels like an eternity.

The jokes are never, ever funny, the dialogue inane and the plot lazy. The songs are so bland and forgettable you’re likely to fall asleep (if only you could). There isn’t an ounce of inspiration to be found anywhere. Happily N'Ever After 2 is inexcusably lazy and takes every shortcut possible. I can’t imagine anyone was clamoring for this sequel considering what the first one was like so this can’t even be something that was green-lit by some misguided fans. Happily N’Ever After 2 was spawned by an accountant; a bean counter who figured out the company could make X profits if they made a sequel that cost less than Y. It’s a disgrace.

If Happily N’Ever After was to Shrek what vegan spaghetti and meatballs is to regular spaghetti and meatballs, then Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple is a collection of dog turds squeezed through some Play-Doh moulds to look like food. I can’t imagine anyone enjoying it. The ones who worked on this should be ashamed of themselves. (On DVD, March 22, 2019)

#Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple #happily n'ever after 2 #happily n'ever after #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #steven e. gordon #boyd kirkland #Chris denk #Helen Kiedwick #Cam Clarke #Jim Sullivan #Kirk Thornton #Cindy Robinson #David Lodge #Catherine Lavin #2009 movies #2009 films

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#interesting facts #jim sullivan #ufo #music #musician #artist #music facts

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Shaking like a leaf on the desert heat

His daddy's got a bang that's hard to beat

bought me a ticket got a front row seat

I'm checking out the show

With a glassy eye

Looking at the sun dancing through the sky

Did he come

by U.F.O.?

#jim sullivan #ufo #music #folk #psychedelic rock #folk rock #60s #60s music #my post #Spotify

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jim sullivan -- roll back the time

#1960s #folk #rock #jim sullivan

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#jim sullivan #muaic #folk #rock #1970s #missing person #unsolved mysteries #Youtube

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Artist : Jim Sullivan

Track : Sunny Jim

#music #jim sullivan #sunny jim

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#playlist #highways #jim sullivan #it came on my disco weekly and while looking for lyrics i found the story of this guy #fucked up #anyway this whole album is really great #on its own its deliciously twangy and 70s and very good #with the story it takes on an eerie feeling #Spotify

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Tom Farm

Wil je overleven? Dan zult gij trainen in het zweets des aanschijns, en niet anders. Een levensverzekering voor boksers eind negentiende eeuw: fijne tijd voor de liefhebber van het eerlijke vuistgevecht, door harde kerels, met geschonden koppen. Boksromantiek van een bedenkelijk soort. Illegale partijen, afspelend in rokerige, obscure zaaltjes, bijgelicht door gaslantaarns, en georganiseerd door…

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#Jim Sullivan #Tom Thomas

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Adapting a Sitcom For the Stage

New blog post: Adapting a Sitcom For the Stage.

Last week, I visited London with a pal. Among other attractions, we stopped at a West End show, namely a musical version of the sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Both of us enjoyed the performance, yet it started me wondering about the pressures of adapting a much-loved show without disappointing the audience. A good start is to find writers with a track record of hits, and this show had two of…

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#jim sullivan #london #musical #only fools and horses #paul whitehouse #performance #stage #west end #writing

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Jim Sullivan - Jim Sullivan

Pressed on Orange Swirl vinyl in 2019 for light in the attic

Light in the Attic introduced me to Jim Sullivan through his UFO their pressing are just so nice I always take note about who they are releasing

#light in the attic #jim sullivan #vinylcollection #now spinning

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This week one day becomes a crime with New Order, Antonis Antoniou, Pixy Jones, The Yardbirds, The Movers, Don Ralke, The Clientele, John Finbury, Jim Sullivan, Gabriels, Lambchop, Jan Hammer Group, Anjana Vasan, The Gathering Doubt and Brian Eno.

Gabriels says some naughty words so be aware of that when playing it out loud

#spotify #playlist #my playlist #new order #Antonis Antoniou #Pixy Jones #the yardbirds #The Movers #Don Ralke #The Clientele #John Finbury #Thalma De Freitas #Jim Sullivan #Gabriels #lambchop #Jan Hammer Group #anjana vasan #The Gathering Doubt #brian eno

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PEG Center to host 'Wear Orange' event against gun violence | Local News

PEG Center to host ‘Wear Orange’ event against gun violence | Local News

NEWBURYPORT — A local art and activism gallery is teaming up with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to host “Wear Orange: Artists Unite Against Gun Violence” on Thursday evening. The event will be held at the PEG Center for Art & Activism from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The exhibit, “Wear Orange: Artists Unite Against Gun Violence,” features work by 15 area artists. Paula Estey,…

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#activism #ann haaser #Art #Artist #artistic handicraft #Center #doris madsen #event #exhibit #Exhibition #gregor gibson #Gun #host #jim sullivan #Local #News #Orange #paula estey #PEG #peg center #show #survivor #violence #wear #wear orange: artists unite against gun violence