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
Tracklisting
Spiritualized
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Connie Smith
Dehd
Elizabeth King
Spiritualized
Armand Hammer
Faith & Harmony
JIM MIZE
JIM MIZE
