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Description: Vocalist, guitarist, USA
Known For: 2005: Jim White Presents Music from Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Music Styles: Luaka Bop
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 10th March 1957
Location Born: Pensacola, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Jim White
Michael Davis Pratt (born March 10, 1957) known professionally as Jim White, is a southern American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
White’s music can be loosely described as alternative country, but veers off in different, sometimes experimental directions with occasional nods to Tom Waits and the literary narratives of Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Harry Crews. He is signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label.
Soon after finishing his lengthy thesis at the university, White entered a self-described “deep hole of sickness and depression and poverty”.
However, during a party organized by film school friends, White began to perform, and began writing material for an album soon afterward.
White’s albums often feature collaborations. On Wrong-Eyed Jesus, folk singer Victoria Williams sings on the track “Angel-Land”; British electronica trio Morcheeba produced and played on three tracks on No Such Place.
In 2006, Jim White collaborated with Johnny Dowd and Willie B forming a group called Hellwood; in 2006, the band toured throughout Europe to promote the album Chainsaw of Life. More recently, Jim White served as producer and songwriter on a collaboration alongside Tucker Martine and blues singer Linda Delgado, on a project entitled Mama Lucky.
Albums include.
1997: Wrong-Eyed Jesus (The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted)
2001: No Such Place
2004: Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
2005: Jim White Presents Music from Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
2007–08: Transnormal Skiperoo
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