Jim Dead’s second album Ten Fires sounds like it originated in the dusty wilderness and plains of the midwest, and carries with it the classic songs of love, loss, dashed dreams and regret. Like the best of its genre the tales carry at their heart a black humour and sometimes a faint flicker of hope that things might still take a turn for the better.
The album calls to mind influences from Johnny Cash to Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and is comfortably at home in the presence of both. The songs are infused with a warmth and empathy for the characters they portray, and it is perhaps all the more remarkable then that album should originate not on the front porches of some backwoods town, but on the the rainy streets of Glasgow.
However, one listen to the slow-burn of Bone Blue Moon and you’ll find yourself be transported to that porch where the sun is setting and the notes hang thick and heavy in the air like woodsmoke.
Visit his website here where you can order the album. Visit his Bandcamp page here where you can get debut release Go Tell The Congregation for a ‘pay what you want’ deal.
Download Jim Dead – Bone Blue Moon mp3 (from Ten Fires)
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