Love On My Brain - Jim Ford

Jim Ford is a southern roots artist remembered for contriving funk themes into his renditions of country music. Ford was born in Johnson County, Kentucky in 1947, but spent most of his adult life in Louisiana and California. He wrote a number of songs over the course of his career, some of which were later covered and recorded by the likes of The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, and Bobby Womack.

During his life time, commercial success never fully arrived for Ford - partly due to the fact he was only able to record one album, Harlan County, released in 1969. Following his death in 2008, Bear Family Records published several previously unissued albums from Paramount and Capitol in addition to compilations of demos and masters.

"Love On My Brain" is a song trying to capture the strange place one finds themselves in realizing they've reached inner peace. String and wind arrangements drive the tune's main euphoric momentum. Ford is happy to sing he's encountered what he'd failed to see for so long: "Found a little bit of kindness is a blind man's walking cane." <TM>