Transnormal Skiperoo by Jim White
"Transnormal Skiperoo is a name I invented to describe a strange new feeling I’ve been experiencing after years of feeling lost and alone and cursed. Now, when everything around me begins to shine, when I find myself dancing around in my back yard for no particular reason other than it feels good to be alive, when I get this deep sense of gratitude that I don’t need drugs or God or doomed romance to fuel myself through the gauntlet of a normal day, I call that feeling ‘Transnormal Skiperoo.’" - Jim White
Jim White traveled many a junkyard road to get to Transnormal Skiperoo. Raised in Pensacola, Florida, a town crushed between the church and heroin, Jim’s songs reach deep into the underbelly of the South. One time Pentacostal, fashion model, New York taxi driver, drifter, pro-surfer, photographer, film-maker, his music is the conduit for all the stories he collected along the way. His previous albums ‘Wrong-Eyed Jesus’ [1997], ‘No Such Place’ [2001] and ‘Drill a Hole in That Substrate…’ [2004] were acclaimed as masterpieces of ‘outer space alt.country’ and established Jim as a phenomenal maverick talent. Jim also starred in the BBC4 film ‘Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus’, an award-winning road-movie exploring Southern culture through its music and stories. Now living in an old farmhouse in the backwoods of Georgia, Jim White may have finally reached a place called home, but his other search, for what he calls ‘the gold tooth in God’s crooked smile’ continues in this new set of backyard tales. Transnormal Skiperoo was produced by Joe Pernice and Michael Deming, recorded with the band Ollabelle, and also features tracks with Tucker Martine and Laura Veirs, local Georgia legend Don Chambers & Goat,
bluegrass duo Jeff & Vida and percussionist Mauro Refosco.
Jim White is a highly original voice in the immense Southern gothic tradition. When broken humanity aches for grace, music like his may give you a shot at redemption.
Tracklist
| 1. | A Town Called Amen | 3:42 |
| 2. | Blindly We Go | 3:09 |
| 3. | Jailbird | 5:45 |
| 4. | Crash into the Sun | 4:30 |
| 5. | Fruit of the Vine | 7:43 |
| 6. | Take Me Away | 4:27 |
| 7. | Turquoise House | 3:20 |
| 8. | Diamonds to Coal | 4:36 |
| 9. | Counting Numbers in the Air | 5:20 |
| 10. | Plywood Superman | 5:40 |
| 11. | Pieces of Heaven | 3:27 |
| 12. | It's Been a Long Day | 3:51 |
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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."