Judee Sill
Heart Food (Lp)
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Judee Sill is one of folk's more interesting and lesser-known stories. Because of her troubled family history she was looking for an escape of reality. After surviving a heroin addiction and a brief stint as a bank robber, Sill turned her rather intense passions to music. She released two albums and partially completed a third album before her death in 1979. Sill's music was complex, elegantly crafted and yet completely devoid of pretension or overwrought melodrama. Unfairly lumped in with other female, proto-adult contemporary songwriters like Joni Mitchell or Carole King, Sill was much closer in spirit to Brian Wilson, Nick Drake, or one her idols, J.S. Bach. She had a gift for making very complicated things sound simple, beautiful.
The second album Judee Sill made, proved to be her last. Instead of using an outside arranger for the strings for her album Heart Food (as she did on her previous album Judee Sill [MOVLP1800]), Sill did all of the work herself.
Release notes
Originally released ℗ & © 1973 Elektra/Asylum Records. Manufactured & distributed by Music On Vinyl B.V. 2017, under exclusive license from Warner Music Benelux B.V., a Warner Music Group Company Made in the EU. Copyright 1973 by Heart Food Music | Companion Music BMI. Except The Pearl and The Phoenix Copyright 1969 Blimp Music BMI. Issued with fold-out lyrics insert.
| 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 | 4:10 | |
| B4 | The Donor | 7:55 |
- Anthony Hudson
- Art Direction, Design
- Judee Sill
- Composed By, Arranged By, Orchestrated By, Producer
- Assa Drori
- Musician
- Bill Plummer
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- Bobbye Hall
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- Buddy Gene Emmons
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- Carolyn Willis
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- Chris Ethridge
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- David Schwartz
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- Gene Cipriano
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- Gloria Jones
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- Harris Goldman
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- Jesse Erlich
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- Jim Gordon
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- Leonard Malarsky
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- Louie Shelton
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- Lynn Blessing
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- Oma Drake
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- Ralph Schaeffer
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- Spooner Oldham
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- Tibor Zelig
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- Vince De Rosa
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- William Kurasch
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- Ken Bright
- Photography By
- Henry Lewy
- Producer, Technician [Audio Alchemy]
- Eddie Lynn
- Technician [Special Assistance]
- Bob Maile
- Typography [Cover Lettering]
