Jim White is a storyteller first and a musician second. It's a kind of storytelling rooted in his own unusual history: He grew up in Florida in a deeply Pentecostal community and fell in love with the white gospel music he heard. But from there, White took a surprising path to becoming a full-time musician. He was a professional surfer, a boxer, a fashion model in Milan and a cab driver in New York City. White's travels recently took him to Washington, DC, where he stopped by the offices of NPR Music for this live performance. Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org. + Informações

Gothenburgs Top 10 and Sammy Jankis feautering Jim White with the song A perfect day to chase tornadoes, performed live at the Mast-hagg church.. + Informações

From the CD Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See. + Informações

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An animated music video of the song "If Jesus Drove A Motorhome" by Jim White. Directed and animated by Zach Passero. The song is from the Luaka Bop CD by Jim White entitled "Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See".. + Informações

From the CD No Such Place Long about an hour before sunrise she drags his body down to the edge of the swollen river wrapped in a red velvet curtain stolen from the movie theater where she works. Quiet as a whisper, under the stanchions of a washed-out bridge she cuts him loose...and watches as the flood waters spin him around once, then carry him away. Then she removes the golden ring upon her finger...and she throws it in. And I wonder; Baby why don't you cry? Baby why don't you... Baby why don't you cry? Three days later in a bar in southern Mississippi she meets a man by the name of Charles Lee. She introduces herself to him as "Lee Charles" "What a coincidence." he says...and one week later they are married. He wakes up one night six months down the line to find her staring at him in the oddest way. When he says, "Honey, what's wrong?" she says, "Oh nothing dear...except that tears are a stupid trick of God." And by the time they find his body six weeks later... Well hell, she's a thousand miles away. And I wonder; Baby why don't you cry? Baby why don't you... Baby why don't you cry? She runs from devils. She runs from angels. She runs from the ghost of her father and five different uncles. Blinded by their memory, seared by their pain, she'd like to kill 'em all...then kill 'em all again. She don't think much about what she's done or the funny feelings that she feels. No, she don't. To her it's just a condition she picked up as a child... a little thing she calls .... + Informações

Jim White performing "Heaven of My Heart" on French TV (with lyrics). + Informações

From Jim White's upcoming album, out 2.21.12. Pre-order at bit.ly. + Informações

I do not own the rights to this song or album.. + Informações

From the CD No Such Place Sunlight in the weeds...I wish that I was blind... to the ghosts dancing in the breeze... blowing through my mind. Got a Corvair in my yard. It hasn't run in fifteen years. It's a home for the birds now. It's no longer a car. Last night I dreamed that I was swimming in a sea. Like always, with everything I went in too deep. Got a Corvair in my yard. It hasn't run in fifteen years. It's a home for the birds now. It's no longer...a car. Got a simple friend out west, and in the blink of an eye, I'd swap him straight, his life for mine...and never wonder "Why?".. + Informações

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Jim plays operation eerily.. + Informações

Jim wasn't always a musician, in fact, he was a cab driver.... + Informações

Jim White at Melting Point Athens, GA 21 May 2008. + Informações

This Jim White segment of his new material from Where It Hits You, out 2.21.12 on Yep Roc Records, is courtesy of WUGA, 91.7FM (www.justofftheradar.com) www.twitter.com. + Informações

Song "Borrowed Wings" by Jim White. Movie by Hickumlooney. + Informações

Jim White and accompanying musicians perform Jailbird at Dr Music Fairhope, AL January 28th, 2012 Jailbird - written by Jim White Dixie is a scourge and a scar and a girl in my heart and a state of mind. Jesus is the man with a plan... he's a short haired Mexican friend of mine. This small town crowd will drag you down-- can't leave your past behind. Wipers in the rain tapping out time... coming up on a new state line. I wanna be a jailbird, from the prison of my own damn mind. Gonna get me a fast car, set out and see what I can find. Brick up the well of tears and disappear--- l eave myself behind. I wanna be a jailbird from the prison of my own damn mind. Midnight, take a short cut through the downtown cemetery. No stepping on graves. Check the statue of the Virgin Mary. She's catching moonlight in the shadows--- revealing spider webs. Can you see the black widow hung between our lady's hands? I wanna be a jailbird from the prison of my own damn mind. Gonna get me a fast car, set out and see what I can find. Brick up the well of tears and disappear--- leave myself behind. I wanna be a jailbird from the prison of my own damn mind. Now used to be when I was young I was so hungry for oblivion. My thoughts would linger like fingers in a deadly web. But in time, as sorrow showed it's face, in kind I learned to ache for grace. To work and pray to one day be delivered whole, alive and free. I wanna be a jailbird, from the prison of my own damn mind. Gonna get me a fast car .... + Informações

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Jim White auditions for Luaka Bop Records. David Byrne was in the house. Recorded at O'Rourke's Irish Pub, Mobile, Alabama. 3/3/01. + Informações

Sue´s Last Ride, live from a recordstore in Asia. + Informações

Couldn't really do much about the awful red stage light but this is the best I could do under the circumstances.. + Informações

From the CD Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See. + Informações

searhing for the wrong eyed jesus. + Informações

Gothenburgs Top 10 and Sammy Jankis feautering Jim White with the song A town called Amen, performed live at the Mast-hagg church.. + Informações

Jim White sings If Jesus Drovw A Motorhome at Dr. Music, Fairhope, AL January 28th, 2012 Steve "Bishop" Maples Dan Nettles Marlon Patton Mark Tulk If Jesus drove a motor home, I wonder would he drive pedal to the metal, or real slow? Checking out the stereo. Cassette playing Bob Dylan, motivation tapes. Tricked up Winnebago, with the tie-dye drapes. If Jesus drove a motor home... If Jesus drove a motor home, and he come to your town, would you try to talk to him? Would you follow him around? Honking horns at the drive thru. Double-parking at the mall. Midnight at the Waffle House - Jesus eating eggs with ya'll. If Jesus drove amotor home... Buddha on a motorcycle, Mohammed in a train. Here come Jesus in the pa*sing lane... but everybody smile, 'causeneverybody's grooving. Ain't nothing like the feeling of moving with a bona fide motorized savior. Now if we all drove motor homes, well maybe in the end, with no country to die for, we could just be friends. One world as our highway. Ain't no yours or my way. We'd be cool wherever we roam - if Jesus drove a motor home.. + Informações