- Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:10 am
#106722
Mateo Sanboval wrote:
1. Is your cat truly named Blood Feast? Because that is...just...wow.
2. High praise for that Yim Yames LP. I kind of gave up on him a while back, but It Still Moves is a bit of an all-timer.
3. GP in general, and Sweetheart specifically, is as good as it gets. So very much of what has come since, including the aforementioned It Still Moves, likely wouldn't be without Sweetheart.
1. Haha, yes my cats name is Blood Feast but it's a bit of a mouthful so we call him Beast for short.
2. Yeah, I was floored by Jims new album. I knew it was coming out in June but didn't really pay attention, it showed up in the new release section of my Google Music account and I gave it a listen. Probably listened to it 5 times that day and every day the following week. It's the first Jim LP I've actually bought outside of his original Tribute To LP. I own all of MMJ's stuff on vinyl but found my interest in new studio stuff waning around Circuital, both that one and The Waterfall have some good songs on them I don't revisit very often. At Dawn has and always will be my favorite from them. But do yourself a favor and listen to this one when you get a chance. It's great.
3. Gram is the reason we have bands like Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, MMJ, Jayhawks, Old 97's, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, etc. He's the grandfather of Alt Country. I always loved the Whiskeytown version of A Song For You. And Emmylou's backing vocals on GP are incredible.
bpwlogan wrote: I love the first couple of MMJ albums so I'll have to check out some of Jim James solo work.
Jim's first solo release I really like which was a 6 song acoustic tribute to George Harrison, titled Tribute To. His first solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God, I just couldn't get into, he was really into electronic music at the time and just didn't work for me. His follow up to that which came out in 2016, Eternally Even, was much more interesting. It's kind of a funk soul album and while not a classic it's well worth a listen. The new one Uniform Distortion is great and I think his best solo outing so far. He also did another cover album last year called Tribute To 2, it had some nice renditions of a few songs but it's nothing special.