Credited on the record as Michael C Ford.
Like Peaches
1988 · Blue Yonder Sounds BYS (0114) · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- Michael C. Ford
- Credited on the record as
- Michael C Ford
- Title
- Like Peaches
- Release
- Motel Cafe
- Year
- 1988
- Label
- Blue Yonder Sounds # BYS (0114)
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Songwriter
- Michael C. Ford
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Poetry
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — 1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs
Poet, born 13 December 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and currently based in Los Angeles, California, USA, released this LP (Blue Yonder Sounds # BYS (0114) featuring the track "Like Peaches", described on the back sleeve as "a journal note recollection of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago - the one that featured the Yippie invasion and designed the velvet masque of mock insurrection". Also note this LP contained other Vietnam War-related references, included the track "Vietnam / Peace Casualties" - which had the description: "this holds a cracked mirror up to an image of how I perceive the thing that places this whole traumatic conflict in American history".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Voice and words by Michael C. Ford; produced, compiled and edited by Harvey Robert Kubernik; also on Freeway Records.
About the artist
Michael C. Ford (born 13 December 1939, Chicago, Illinois) is a poet based in Los Angeles, California. [Rate Your Music]