JIM WHITE LYRICS


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When Jim White's Luaka Bop debut Wrong-Eyed Jesus appeared
in 1997, the unique blend of alt country and metaphysics
startled many with its idiosyncratic freshness. It was
instantly acclaimed as a classic of the newly burgeoning
"sadcore" scene, a point which amused the Florida-based
songwriter to no end. "For 20 years I’d written these dark
little songs, " he notes dryly, "Every once in a while I’d
play them for someone and they’d shout, ‘Stop! That sucks
so bad it makes my ears pop!’, then a thing called alt
country came along and, boom, all of a sudden everyone’s
hollering ‘Jim, you’re a friggin’ genius!’ I mean, what
happened???"

No sooner though, did Jim’s slightly warped worldview
arrive at the fringes of the fashionable than his personal
life went to pie More...

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