Artist: Jim White
Record Review from web archive November 22, 2008
Jim White
Good old southern pantheism has rarely been as catchy, drowsy and tuneful as the best moments on Jim White’s 2007 disc Transnormal Skiperoo. If “Blindly We Go” slouched and seduced in the manner of fellow southern obsessives Lambchop, the song seemed more a triumph of texture than a statement of intent. Still, White has a [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Jim White – White noise
“If you have become a convenient conduit for sorrow and you suddenly are happy, that doesn’t necessarily make the people who are listening likewise so happy, because they still have their struggles that they’re dealing with.” –Jim White Jim White has been trying to come to terms with his region and his religion for a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Nina Nastasia & Jim White – You Follow Me
This set of ten songs in a duo setting has all the exuberant sense of discovery associated with jazz pairings, and none of the rote mannerisms often found in folk-volume guitar-based music. Nina Nastasia’s voice and guitar playing have a liquidity that allows her melodic sensibility to swoop around and through the strumming and picking. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Jim White – Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
Jim White’s mesmerizing voice and narrative songwriting cast a spell. David Byrne calls White’s music “Beautiful, dark and weird stuff.” I find the songs here even more compelling than those on White’s fine prior records, including the highly regarded Wrong Eyed Jesus. Particularly strong are the songs (roughly half) produced by Joe Henry, who infuses [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Jim White – A long, strange trip-folk into light
Thinking back, it seems the day Jim White got saved was really the beginning of everything. White would later embark in earnest on a life that was complicated, circuitous and frequently unpleasant. He would be a cab driver, a fashion model, an independent filmmaker, and the creator of two celebrated but little-heard albums, 1997′s Wrong-Eyed [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Jim White – Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Darkly seductive like that preacher’s son who smelled of sex and whiskey and spoke redemption back in high school, Jim White’s debut album Wrong-Eyed Jesus beguiles the listener into riding shotgun from the git-go: “Big ole car moving fast, watch the world go spinning by/Little wheels inside my brain, God I wonder where I’m going/Where [...]
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