The guy went out of his way to say 'very reliably.'
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 24 November 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Still no other info.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a bigger obit on the Bear Family site. RIP...
― Craig D., Monday, 26 November 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah here. Thanks. RIP, Jim.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Cover of the one coming out next year looks great.
ah, too bad...I always thought of him as the belligerent drunk to Lee Hazlewood's mellow drunk...sez he co-wrote "Ode To Billy Joe", and I got no reason to doubt him...RIP...
― henry s, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
damn, i was hoping this was just blog BS.
RIP, jim ford, and i wish i had found a copy of "harlan county" years and years ago instead of waiting 34 years to hear it.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the other rekkid is out now.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 18 February 2008 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm buying it as soon as i can find it
― gershy, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Well?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Nobody got this one yet? On the liner notes of the first one Jim called out Bobby Womack for ripping him off, on this one Bobby defends himself, saying well there was one song that I "traded" with him for some other songs.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i got it. about 5 really great songs, which is about what you can expect from "unreleased shit dead dude had in his trailer" type of release. stories about him make him out to be a complete fucking lunatic. my faves are "point of no return" (seriously, this is life-altering) and "mill valley"
― gershy, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
found several cassette tapes with studio musings and songs from Jim Ford - Anyone know what to do with them> He was laid to rest last year, and the double CD album seemed to find almost everything he recorded in studio
― RabbiCTJ, Monday, 22 February 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of this material is like Gram Parsons at his most lackadaisical, inviting the "I like this guy and what he's trying to do but couldn't they have tightened the screws a little on this number?" response.
Had not known "Harry Hippie" was actually about Bobby Womack's brother and what happened to the brother afterward.
Wonder what happened to the stash of cassettes and musings
― She Got The Goldwax (I Got The Son Of Shaft) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUxdqQEX6CE
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 28 November 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link