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Jim White

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Jim White (2001)

Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, May 2001

On learning guitar with a broken leg; drugs and religion; poverty and outsiderdom; art vs. commerce; the dangers of cab driving: Jim White tells all.

File format: mp3; file size: 69.7mb, interview length: 1h 12' 38" sound quality: ****

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"Alternative country is what punks play when they grow up..."

Overview by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 16 October 1998

Tom Cox on the new bands that are making country music sexy ...

Jim White: In God's Country

Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2001

ON HIS EXTRAORDINARY NEW ALBUM, NO SUCH PLACE, HE HAS CONTRIVED AN ASTONISHING MIX OF SPOOKILY DEMENTED COUNTRY, SKEWED ROCK AND HIP HOP THAT CHARTS ...

Twangs can only get better

Overview by Tom Cox, The Observer, 21 October 2001

Country has gone way beyond Nashville, says Tom Cox. It's the new rebel music. ...

Jim White: Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See

Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, May 2004

Two years on from No Such Place, the prodigal Southerner makes a third metaphysical voyage. ...

Jim White: Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See

Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2004

A YANKEE-BLOODED outcast in the Bible-thumping enclave of his adopted Pensacola, White has unwittingly spent his entire life foraging on the wrong side of the ...

Jim White: Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See

Review by Jude Rogers, The Word, May 2004

Pumped full of drive — Jim White's off-kilter alt.country ...

Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus ****

Film/DVD/TV Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2004

SHOWING FOR A limited time at London's National Film Theatre prior to an airing on television this is film-maker Andrew Douglas' road trip through America's ...

Jim White: Where It Hits You

Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2012

JIM WHITE'S extraordinary first two records, 1997's Wrong- Eyed Jesus! and No Such Place (2001), were modern signifiers of a new kind of Southern gothic, ...

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