Wrong-Eyed Jesus (25th Anniversary Edition)

by Jim White

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The 25th anniversary edition — now in a gatefold.

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1.	Book of Angels 04:56	buy track
2.	Burn The River Dry 05:00	buy track
3.	Still Waters 06:36	buy track
4.	When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name 05:17	buy track
5.	Sleepy-Town 05:38	buy track
6.	A Perfect Day To Chase Tornados 06:07	buy track
7.	Wordmule 04:28	buy track
8.	Stabbed In The Heart 04:26	buy track
9.	Angel-Land 05:26	buy track
10.	Heaven Of My Heart 04:35	buy track
11.	The Road That Leads To Heaven 09:05	buy track

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It’s the 25th anniversary of Wrong Eyed-Jesus—the début album from that erstwhile druggie, drifting, storytelling, taxi-driving, recovering Pentecostal maverick talent from Pensacola, Florida who took alt country by storm in the ’90s—and so we’re putting it back out into the world in a beautiful new gatefold jacket.

Wrong-Eyed Jesus, or The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus! (1997) revealed Jim to be a spiritual anatomist of the South on par with Flannery O’Connor and Tom Waits. His music was a conduit for all the crazy stories he found himself at the center of—for no good reason other than that the South is a crazy place.

Fans of alt.country called it a masterpiece. Jim found all the attention pretty hysterical:

“For 20 years I’d written these dark little songs,” he said. “Every once in a while I’d play them for someone and they’d shout, ‘Stop! That sucks so bad it makes my ears pop!’ Then a thing called alt country came along and, boom, all of a sudden everyone’s hollering ‘Jim, you’re a friggin’ genius!’ I mean, what happened???”

Twenty-five years after the fact, it’s a lot easier to see what happened. (By the way, if you haven’t seen his BBC documentary, “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus,” an award-winning road-movie exploring Southern culture, do.)

May “Wrong-Eyed Jesus” give you a shot at redemption.

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released June 2, 2023

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Jim White New York, New York

He's that erstwhile druggie, drifting, storytelling, taxi-driving, recovering Pentecostal maverick talent from Pensacola, Florida who took sadcore outer-space alt.country by storm.

"From the splinter in the hand, to the thorn in the heart

to the shotgun to the head

you got no choice but to learn to glean solace from pain

or you’ll end up cynical or dead." ... more

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