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Jim Mize

Jim Mize

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Format: CD

Cat No: BLM0285

Release Date:  23 June 2014

Label:  Big Legal Mess Records / Fat Possum

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  895102002850

Genres:  Blues  

Release Date:  03 March 2017

Label:  Big Legal Mess Records / Fat Possum

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  854255005439

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    CONWAY, Ark.—The South has a legacy of great, iconoclastic storytellers — artists with a kudzu-shaded vision that cuts straight to the core of the human soul. Arkansas native Jim Mize’s new breakthrough album, simply called Jim Mize, stakes his claim among them. As its nine songs reveal, Mize is a primal rock ’n’ roll visionary who colors his music with hues borrowed from blues and garage psychedelia, and writes with a stark brevity that punctuates every heartbeat of the characters who draw the attention of his pen: car parkers and bar tenders, boozehounds and love-drunk couples, the longing and the satisfied, the faithful and the lost. Songs like “Drunk Moon Falling,” culled from an overheard conversation at an Austin restaurant, and the gorgeously textured “Eminence, Kentucky” reflect the same dirt-road view of life limned with traces of the surreal that permeate the writings of such masterful Southern novelists as Larry Brown and Barry Hannah, both of whom hail from Oxford, Mississippi. Coincidentally that’s also the home of Mize’s label Big Legal Mess, a subsidiary of Fat Possum Records. Mize has spent most of his 57 years wandering among such characters. As an insurance adjuster traveling the South and West for more than 30 years, he’s seen people at their most resilient and at their most vulnerable.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. N/A - Physical Only

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Rabbit Hole
      • 2. I Won't Come Back Again
      • 3. This Moment With You
      • 4. Drunk Moon Falling
      • 5. Bleed
      • 6. Eye to Eye
      • 7. Eminence Kentucky
      • 8. Need Me Some Jesus
      • 9. Empty Rooms