In short, every release is a saga unto itself, inevitably marked by numerous hair-pulling obstacles - everything from legal wranglings with grumpy old copyright holders to artists suffering from years of failure and schizophrenia - each of which impacts a project’s timetable. The reissue business is fraught with Byzantine twists and turns and other bullshit that I won’t bore you with in detail. We reissue old records, most of which never got their proper due back in the day. A friend and I run a Seattle-based label called Light In The Attic.
Justin asked me to write something about my recent adventures involving our upcoming reissue of Jim Sullivan’s 1969 album U.F.O. Below are Matt’s words, plus the footage they shot on the road this summer. I made him promise to tell his tale here on AD prior to the record’s November 16th release. They say that truth is often stranger than fiction, and Matt, along with his wife (filmmaker Jennifer Maas), were headed out on a six-week road trip to dig up anything they could on the Sullivan mystery. it was the very performer who was lost, as Sullivan had literally disappeared some 35 years before. Light In The Attic often reissues the lost and forgotten LP, but in the case of U.F.O. Last June, over a round of drinks, my friend Matt excitedly told me the tale of his label Light In The Attic’s upcoming release that of the reissue of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.
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