Jim White - Wrong-Eyed Jesus! (1997)

Tracklist

01. Book of Angels
02. Burn the River Dry
03. Still Waters
04. When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name
05. Sleepy-Town
06. A Perfect Day To Chase Tornados
07. Wordmule
08. Stabbed In the Heart
09. Angel-Land
10. Heaven of My Heart
11. The Road That Leads To Heaven

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.

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