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Jim White

Southern Gothic singer-songwriter Jim White grew up in Pensacola, Florida, taken with the white gospel music he heard on the Gospel Jubilee television series.

Early on, he toyed with surfing professionally, and then briefly modelled in Milan. A band-saw accident maimed his left hand, but after writing a collection of simple songs with his guitar, a friend persuaded him to record a demo which was picked up by David Byrne's Luaka Bop label.

White's debut album Wrong-Eyed Jesus! was released in 1997, and No Such Place was released quickly after in early 2001.

In 2004, he released Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See, featuring Barenaked Ladies, Aimee Mann, and Bill Frisell.

In 2005, he released Jim White Presents Music from Searching for a Wrong-Eyed Jesus, a soundtrack to the surrealist road-movie by director Andrew Douglas.

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