JIM WHITE NEWS (for the Daves!) Sealyman and Van D!

 Jim White update

We had been talking about Jim White with the Sealyman! and I said I had been contacted by my old boss and mentor (another Dave) who sent me images and asked if I knew him and how much he had enjoyed the set and there is this . . . White had been touring last month (with his trio?) and we missed him it seems . . . in Jan he released this which frankly is a scary and dark as he usually gets! Thanks mostly to Trey I reckon . . . . but phew what a voice!

Jim White and Trey Blake - Rushing In Waves

Jim White 17th Feb The Gresytones Sheffield©️ Dave Vanderhoven

The Jim White Trio?(sic) The Backroom Thornbridge Brewery, THE GREYSTONES ( more synchronicity? Greystones anyone? pay attention at the back!)©️ Dave Vanderhoven

©️Dave Vanderhoven

Jim White - Wrong Eyed Jesus

 My old friend mentor and previous boss Dave V went to see this guy and I had nearly forgotten how much I loved his work . . . . . . thanks Dave this one’s for you!

Jim White - Wrong Eyed Jesus

Jim White: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Say:

 

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, D.C., where he stopped by the offices of NPR Music for this live performance.

Radiohead - High and Dry, one of the songs the band played on their 2 Meter Session, Filmed on February 27, 1995.

 There's a tale to tell here. . . . . . 

so walking through Oxford after meeting my old boss and mentor from the Ley Community  where I worked, Dave Vanderhoven, and  I had just left him and walked back through the town centre to get to my scooter when . . . . . 

I spotted Thom Yorke who often can be seen walking around the town centre and frequenting the local central shops (Marks & Sparks since you ask! go and he also regally came into my Blackwell Art Shop - interesting taste in art as you might imagine) and the busker ahead of us spots and him and started playing this song . . . . its took me a little while to clock it but I swear as Thom overtook me in the Cornmarket you could see his body language change to that of a smile! . . . . . . it was High & Dry! Clever!       Funny! He did a real passable version of it too! Imagine if it had been crap!?     It wasn’t!

Imagine walking the streets of your home town and hearing a busker sing one of your songs!?!