Frazey Ford Shares “Crazy Love” From Deluxe Edition of Acclaimed Album ‘Indian Ocean,’ out 9/19

Originally released in October 2014, Frazey Ford’s acclaimed album Indian Ocean returns this year with a special digital deluxe edition and vinyl reissue out September 19th. The digital edition also includes three previously unreleased covers recorded during the original sessions with The Hi Rhythm Section, now unearthed for the first time – offering a new window into the soulful, deeply personal record that’s continued to captivate audiences for over a decade.

Frazey’s cover of Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love” was originally recorded in the very first sessions at Memphis’ Royal Studios as a way of Frazey and her band finding their groove and to get a sense of how things might work playing with brothers Charles Hodges (organ), Leroy Hodges (bass) and Teenie Hodges (guitar) – all part of Al Green’s legendary band – The Hi Rhythm Section.

Listen to “Crazy Love” here: https://frazeyford.ffm.to/crazylove

“Crazy Love,” along with the Frazey’s version of Otis Redding’s “The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)” released last month, captures a moment in time of the exploration that led to Indian Ocean. “With Teenie no longer with us, it felt like we had to put them out in the world,” says Frazey. “That’s a big part of why I’m including these. It felt like I had Teenie’s ghost on my shoulder saying ‘You gotta put these tracks out.’ It feels like we’re honoring him.”

The third new track is a stunning re-work of Ann Peebles “Trouble, Heartaches & Sadness,” which was recorded in Vancouver’s Afterlife Studios, but still featuring Charles Hodges, who recorded his part in Memphis.

Frazey shares, “I don’t tend to do a lot of love songs or covers, but these are three love songs by three of my favourite artists, and I thought they made a nice collection unto themselves, and a nice addition to the album. They’re special to me as they reflect a moment in time in this space of collaboration.”

She adds, “In a lot of ways, Indian Ocean defined an era of my life. It wasn’t until I released this album that I feel I really hit my stride as a solo artist. With some space from it, I look back and it all feels like such a dream that it even happened. It seems to be hitting its stride well beyond the time we made it, and it’s just one of the most synchronistic and magical points in my career.”

A firm fan and critic favourite, Indian Ocean has become a defining record in Frazey’s career. It’s a timeless album that blends soul, folk, and R&B into a rich, emotionally resonant soundscape that continues to find new audiences eleven years on. Highlights of course include the hopeful album opener, “September Fields” and the now iconic “Done,” a break up song that’s part Rickie Lee Jones, part power-drill. “Natural Law” is another fierce, motoring track, driving on the back of a wickedly throbbing bass pulse, channeling some of Al Green’s grimier cuts. “You’re Not Free’s” cool, breezy lead and backing vocals are the calm before the storm, the song reaching critical mass in a storming surge of impassioned organ and fiery electric guitar. But there are soft nuances that make this record special too, songs like “Three Golden Trees,” “You Got Religion” and “Weather Pattern,” a delicate and deceptively simple song about mortality and of course the album’s sophisticated title track – a dreamy, mental wandering over the ocean that feels like baptism.

Reflecting on it all these years later, Frazey concludes, “The fact that I got to make this record with those guys, that it took me all over the world. It changed my life and changed me as an artist, changed everyone in my band. We still just shake our heads at the sheer synchronicity that we got to essentially go to the temple of these artists that we respect the most in the world and then to collaborate with them. The fact that the music is still reaching people, that these songs are still moving people and moving out in the world – it’s just this crazy magical thing to me.”

Indian Ocean Deluxe Edition is out September 19th via Nettwerk.

Frazey tours Europe later this year, catch her live:

Saturday, October 25 – Black Deer Festi

val in the City | Tobacco Docks, London, UK

Monday, October 27 – Button Factory | Dublin, IE

Tuesday, October 28 – Sligo Live Festival at Hawks Wells Theatre | Sligo, IE

Thursday, October 30 – La Maroquinerie | Paris, FR

Friday, October 31 – Tolhuistuin | Amsterdam, NL

Saturday, November 1 – Take Root Festival | Groningen, NL

Sunday, November 2 – Doornroosje | Nijmegen, NL

Monday, November 3 – TivoliVredenburg Cloud Nine | Utrecht, NL

Wednesday, November 5 – Festival Bebop (Salle Athena) | La Ferte Bernard, FR

Saturday, November 8 – Klub Nalen | Stockholm, SE

Sunday, November 9 – Pustervik | Goteborg, SE

Tuesday, November 11 – Heimathafen | Berlin, DE

Wednesday, November 12 – Bahnhof Pauli | Hamburg, DE