Worked in a club in Chicago helping set up shows. Jim was the most fun and kind band leader who came through. Drove his own van schleped in the gear with the rest of us. Every musician in the group was in a good mood. They wrote the song "Alabama Chrome" during sound check and opened there set with it then Jim deadpaned , "y'all know what Alabama Crime is right? Duct tape.
Stumbled apon jim white not knowing a thing about him. Looked up his music and this is the first one I hear. Must be some weird form of fate with his stories of home and whatnot. I wanna find out more about this man 💜
Just discovering his music - going through same thing. His songs about the meaning of home and call it love/hate, call it the inner child wanting home, it runs deep in all of us. It's the Native American seeking to die in the same place he was born. There's something primal in this guys music, a vein of gold running through the overly ordinary boredom and occasional chaos of life.
Sucks mightily that you went through what you did in Pensacola. Don't shortchange the courage and tenacity that kept you above water. Creative roots should not be so painfully cultivated.
White is a great talent but his music of grass roots banality wears thin at times and seems overly nostalgic for the tragic. I guess its a way of trying to rescue his being apparently having lived through some hard times. I think there are other things to come from him beyond just that sort of thing. He reminds me of Townes Van Zandt in his searching meaningful songs.
I love this song. "Grass roots banality" seems a pretty interesting choice of words. I don't find this banal, nor do I find it thin. I similarly do not find the work of Andre Dubus, Raymond Carver, Buell Kazee or Dock Boggs banal. Expression of genuine feeling, somewhat uncommon these days in music. The meaning is there. I guess we bring to our listening what we bring to it, respectively. But you are right with regard to there being more to his work - e.g. Earnest T. Bass At Last Finds the Woman of His Dreams or Long Long Day on the latest album.
Worked in a club in Chicago helping set up shows. Jim was the most fun and kind band leader who came through. Drove his own van schleped in the gear with the rest of us. Every musician in the group was in a good mood. They wrote the song "Alabama Chrome" during sound check and opened there set with it then Jim deadpaned , "y'all know what Alabama Crime is right? Duct tape.
Chrome not crime.
In my opinion one of the best lyricists of all time
Feel sorry for anyone not knowing this song. Love the story behind it, too.
Wonderful song about a feeling many can relalte to - not fitting in!
Simple, pure, authentic, heartfelt & a rare gemstone******
So nice to meet Jim in Dublin. Love you man.
Gorgeous tune... thank you for being you, Jim White.
My favourite Jim White song - magical! Love it!
Same here. Cheers (3 years after commenting ;) )
What a beautiful sad song. Thank you, Jim.
Beautiful song and great harmonica playing which reminds me of Neil Young's Out On The Weekend.
One of my favorite songs of Jim's. Great version.
so goddamn great
Exquisite song. Harp awesome too.
Beautiful song
So beautiful. Thank you.
Beautiful
Thank you
Stumbled apon jim white not knowing a thing about him. Looked up his music and this is the first one I hear. Must be some weird form of fate with his stories of home and whatnot. I wanna find out more about this man 💜
Just discovering his music - going through same thing. His songs about the meaning of home and call it love/hate, call it the inner child wanting home, it runs deep in all of us. It's the Native American seeking to die in the same place he was born. There's something primal in this guys music, a vein of gold running through the overly ordinary boredom and occasional chaos of life.
Just discovered him. Cool guy
worth 42 billion views
Magic Genius
Sucks mightily that you went through what you did in Pensacola. Don't shortchange the courage and tenacity that kept you above water. Creative roots should not be so painfully cultivated.
The prison is a prism.
Is that an Irish bodhrán drum on the bed?
White is a great talent but his music of grass roots banality wears thin at times and seems overly nostalgic for the tragic. I guess its a way of trying to rescue his being apparently having lived through some hard times. I think there are other things to come from him beyond just that sort of thing. He reminds me of Townes Van Zandt in his searching meaningful songs.
I love this song. "Grass roots banality" seems a pretty interesting choice of words. I don't find this banal, nor do I find it thin. I similarly do not find the work of Andre Dubus, Raymond Carver, Buell Kazee or Dock Boggs banal. Expression of genuine feeling, somewhat uncommon these days in music. The meaning is there. I guess we bring to our listening what we bring to it, respectively. But you are right with regard to there being more to his work - e.g. Earnest T. Bass At Last Finds the Woman of His Dreams or Long Long Day on the latest album.