FROM TEAM JIM:

These are the kind folks who, through their kindness and generosity, made the recording and release of Where It Hits You possible. Coming Feb. 21, 2012

Aaron Price, Adam Stewart, Adrian Lawryshyn, Alan Daly, Alan Mooney, Alison, Amanda Nelis, Amber Darby, Amy Vosburg-Casey, Andrew Foster, Andrew Molinaro, Andrew Small, Anthony Brierley, Arden Barnett, Barney Williams, Ben Milne, Bertil Knudsen, Betsy Alperin, Billy Armstrong, Bluescatb, Bonnercd, Brian, Catherine Richardson, Cheryl Meyers, Chris Heinrich, Chris Walldorf, Chris Zephro, Christian Goulet, Christopher Athens, Christopher Smith, Cosmic Spanner, Cruella, Csasaki, Daisaku Yamamoto, Dan Sandstrì?M, Daniel Brielmaier, Daniel Curran, Danni Swalef, Dare Dukes, Dave & Kathy Van Kleeck, David Curran, David Tartaglio, Dean, Dean Derby, Deborah Golden, Deiniol, Denis, Don Jones, Donna Wemple, Dror Kessler, Eamonn Mclarnon, Ed Macdaniel, Elwoodicious, Emily Bliss Gerber, Eoin Byrne, Erin Corcoran, Esteban J Mason, Fiona, Fredrik Strom, Gerhard Schneider, Gordon (No &) Smith, Grahambo, Greg, Greg Cordez, Guy Stagman, Hdpresente3000, Helen Rosemier, Henrik Kummel, Holly, Iain Cummings, Iain Wilson, Ian Henderson, Ingrid Walker, Irene Partington, J. R. Shute, Jamie Schatz, Janesydney, Janet Seeds, Jari Ojanen, Jean Tanaka, Jen Bradley, Jenny Mollergren, Jess G., Jim Lesniak, Jim Roberts, Jim Selby, Jimmy Groton, JOE HARWOOD, Joel Sweeney, John, John, John, John Boyd, John Hanson, John Roelofs, Jon Trinder, Jonas Nordstrom, Joshua Correll, Karol Tarka, Kathleen Peine, Kayt Edwards, Kensuke Omori, Kim Stringfellow, Kip O'Brien, Kirsty Chestnutt, Kyle Dawkins, Kyle Ronald Freund, Lancelot Link, Laura Gilligan, Laura Young, Leigh Anne Sharp, Lewis Winter, Lil Tydings, Linda Stephenson, Lora Evans, Lou Fusaro, Lucrecia, M Koelink, Malcolm Campbell, Marc Beebe, Marc Wille, Maria Blyzinsky, Marie Le Claire, Mark Cook, Mark Delahoyde, Mark Frazier, Martin Phillips , Mary Dooley, Matt Arnett, Matthew Barnett, Max Wimmer, Melissa Kievman, Meredith Wiggins, Meryl Truett, Michael Athans, Michael Mattes, Michael Neustadt, Michael O'Hare, Michael W Brannan, Mikael Fredriksson, Mike Radlauer, Myron Selby, Nathan Hall, Neil Sayer, Nigel Wright, Nila K Leigh, Oshri Hila Yaara, PÃ¥L Hernes Fiva, Patrice Watson, Paul, Paul Rhodes, Peatmay, Pete Liebl, Peter Doherty, Peter Griffiths, Peter Rock, Peter Soung-Hun Baik, Philip Bender, Philip Gleckler, R P Hoyng, Rearviewmags, Rebecca Hellrich, Renee Anderson, Richard Allen, Richard Yates, Riina Spìürring Zachariassen, Rjmcgonagil, Robert Dodson, Robert Maluchnik, Robin Pratt, Roger Campbell, Ron Mcburnie, Ruth Morris, Ruth Tyszka O/B/O David Christensen, Ryan Carey, Ryan Luecke, Samuel G. Garcãa, Sandra Beasley, Scott Johnston, Scott Lasater, Scott Peek, Senthil, Seth Morgan, Shannon Quirke, Simon Crocker, Smidge, Stefan R., Stephanie Augello, Steve Bence, Steve Daffern, Steven Horner, Strand Of Oaks, Stuart Redler, Sue Haynes, Susan Bakhshian , Susan Grogan, Susan Miller, Sven Steinert, T Cormeir, Tammy Bauer, Tillie Whitt, Timothy Perell, TJ Dawe, Toetsiez, Tom Junge, Tony Greenlee, Tony Orlando, Tucker Martine, Vince Sullivan, Wayland Workman, Will Kirkham, William Homan, WJ64, Yaffa, Zach Brockhouse, Zachary Goldberg.

Looks like I'm becoming a bonafide producer.   Did the Stanton album last spring, then a track for Dare Dukes new record, and come January I'll be producing a record for singer songwriter Haroula Rose.  I like producing!

I've added some new pieces to my art page, so head on over to JimArt and see my most recent figurative assemblages. 

I'll be listing those tour posters I spoke of previously as well.  This house is getting cluttered and it's time to send those things off to good homes.

Playing the Heartland festival on October 28th in my old stomping grounds, Switzerland, where I lived for a while when I was unraveling the big tangled ball of string in my brain that I called "Jesus and The South".  

I hid out in Zurich for a year, which was essentially an armed camp back then.  Riots daily, anarchists versus conservative right.  Molotov coctails, tear gas.  There was a 10pm curfew for young people, who were forbidden from public gathering of any kind.

The secret police were everywhere.  Phone lines were tapped, dissidents expelled from the country.  The anarchists bombed McDonalds---the first in Europe---and manifested their pent up energy by breaking out shop windows and causing a variety of forms of useless mayhem.

 There was a terrible drug problem there.  Junkies shot heroin on park benches in broad daylight along the Zurich Zea, swans peacefully gliding by.  Old folks often seated on the selfsame bench,  refusing to either acknowledge the human being next to them or move to a non junkie bench.  Weird.  Stubborn.  Intransigence.

The most oft repeated phrase I heard over and over day in and day out there was 'Das is verboten!" which of course means "This is forbidden"  Everything was forbidden and with all that restraining energy a backlash of break out energy reached fever pitch when I was there and caused quite a social upheaval.

It was all about money (Zurich was the banking capitol of the world at that point) and what was perceived to be threats to notional stability.   I guess the Switzerland riot days are over, and have moved on to Wall Street.  America is the new Switzerland? 

Here's a link to the festival.

http://www.heartland.ch/eng_2011/index.html

Also playing shows in Athens and Atlanta in November, then will be doing some heavy duty touring in the spring with the release of Where It hits You.

ATTENTION ALL YOU FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS, AND BELIEVERS:

I'm DELIGHTED to announce that the musical aspect of Where It Hits You is a done deal.  After months and months and months and months of quietly moving little pieces of audio information up and down and in and out and this way and that and back again and back again, I'm done with my traditional excruciatingly minute remixing of the songs that will appear on the album.

For the uninitiated, when I make a record, the song that I write and take into the studio often bears no semblance to the song that I come out of the studio sessions with.  We wander, me and the musicians.  Then, the song I come out of the studio is again turned inside out and back again, deconstructed and reconstructed over and over until what I hear coincides with the little orchestra I heard in my head way back when I was first writing the song (an agonizingly slow propositon in itself).  It's exhaustingly labor intensive experience and a process that would drive most sane people crazy.  

I thank you all for your patience as I found my way through this enchanted forest of sound. 

The record will be released in February, according to my sources at Yep Roc up there in Haw River, NC.  For you fantastically removed foreigners, I suspect you'll be getting this in your stores around March or April. 

Okay, I better get back at it here.  I'm about to jump into visual artist mode and design a T-shirt to go along with this round of touring.  So many hats to wear!

JW

She's the singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCaqM9mzjlc

Looks like the record is getting great reviews in the UK.    Here's a link to the label site that released the record.  Many thanks to Tom at Loose Music for his belief in this weird, offbeat project.

http://loosemusic.com/category/jim-white

Around 6pm.  Full band of some sort.  Likely it'll be me, Dan Nettles (my Sounds Of The Americans co-composer), Marlon (sonic wizard) Patton, and a few other guests.  

Head over to the blog section to get a full breakdown of songs on AcRoMeGaLy and Boot-Leg, the two CDs that came with Kickstarter donations.

Thanks to everyone who pitched in.   You saved my ass, friends.   Now I gotta get this album done.

Hey, I just added a story I wrote to the blog section, so head on over and give it a read.

JW

Listen to any track or buy: click here.

Or get a free download right now: click!
 

Jim's latest side project is now available as a digital download only.  Featuring 16 wildly ecclectic songs from the score Dan Nettles (Kenosha Kid) and Jim wrote for a Julliard Drama School performance based on the works of Sam Shepherd.  

In Sounds Of The Americans stories abound, rising and falling behind a roller coaster musical backdrop; a mad preacher speaks of interplanetary mission fields, a lovelorn teen confides her deepest fears to her diary, a proud son relays the tale of how he lovingly refurbished his dad's derelict car, a zombie choir chants a consumerist catechism, a redneck entrepreneur recounts how his "nose got shot off".

"It's sort of a post-modern musical spaghetti western." Jim admits ruefully.

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Steve Haisman, screenwriter for Searching For The Wrong Eyed Jesus says,"Good enough to be an official Jim White Album, not just a side project" 

Charles Driebe, manager of The Blind Boys of Alabama, raves, "It's fantastic!"

Richard Grant, author of God's Middle Finger and American Nomads, reports "It's going to be in the stereo for a while.  Speeding Motorcycle is damn catchy."

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