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Artist.........: Jim White
Album..........: Wrong-Eyed Jesus!
Year...........: 1997
Bitrate........: 320 kbps
Size...........: 134 mb

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Released: Apr 22, 1997. Label: WEA. Total Length: 1:01:34.
The title of Jim White's debut album, Wrong-Eyed Jesus! refers not to any of the 11 original songs but to the short story that takes up 14 of the CD booklet's 18 pages. It's actually a pretty good story, full of the religious imagery and Southern weirdness that make White sort of a beatnik Flannery O'Connor, and the outsider folk art that accompanies it seems appropriate. Being a good writer and a bohemian artist is not the same thing as being a musician, however, and the songs' out-of-tune mumbling, melodic minimalism, ramshackle arrangements, and gratuitous symbolism make White sound like Leonard Cohen at his worst.

Jim White's debut album is a cinematic collection of Appalachia-inspired country-folk rendered with a gothic sensibility and junkyard atmospherics (the inclusion of Tom Waits collaborator Ralph Carney on several tracks lends the record a distinctly Waits-ish veneer). Drawing on his bizarre life experiences and troubled Pentecostal upbringing, White's narratives are surreal and crazed, shot through with disturbing spiritual imagery and backwoods dementia; a strangely beautiful record, Wrong-Eyed Jesus! is a fine introduction to a uniquely twisted talent.

Tracklist......:

1. Book Of Angels
2. Burn The River Dry
3. Still Waters
4. When Jesus Gets A Brand New Name
5. Sleepy-Town
6. A Perfect Day To Chase Tornados
7. Wordmule
8. Stabbed In The Heart
9. Angel-Land
10. Heaven Of My Heart
11. The Road That Leads To Heaven

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