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Jim White
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- Location: United States
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Alternative Country-Rock
Editor's review
White's music pulls off a compelling outflanking of insurgent country--its rube styling is surely more grizzled and authentic than, say, Ryan Adams', but White is also enough of a geeky sort to name his disc "Transnormal Skiperoo." As real culture or cultural anthropology, these ditties win.
Biography
Jim White traveled many a junkyard road to get to Transnormal Skiperoo. Raised in Pensacola, Florida, a town crushed between the church and heroin, Jim’s songs reach deep into the underbelly of the South. One time Pentacostal, fashion model, New York taxi driver, drifter, pro-surfer, photographer, film-maker, his music is the conduit for all the stories he collected along the way.
His previous albums Wrong-Eyed Jesus [1997], No Such Place [2001] and Drill a Hole in That Substrate… [2004] were acclaimed as masterpieces of ‘outer space alt.country’ and established Jim as a phenomenal maverick talent. Jim also starred in the BBC4 film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, an award-winning road-movie exploring Southern culture through its music and stories.
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