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Jim White gets around. When he’s not releasing his own
critically acclaimed solo albums he splits time producing
records for other artists, exhibiting his visual art in galleries
and museums across the US and Europe and publishing
award winning fiction.
Numerous songs from White’s back catalog have
appeared in film and television, with his Primus-esque
Word-Mule being featured in the Heisenberg Episode of
Breaking Bad, while more recently Jim’s dreamy duet with
Aimee Mann, Static on the Radio, graced the closing
credits of the feature film El Camino.
Americana music fans may recognize White as the
narrator and defacto tour guide for the award winning BBC
documentary, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, a
road movie set in the rural South which the LA Times
described as “Decidedly strange, delightfully demented.”
Released in 2003, the film has attained cult status among
southern gothic fans far and wide.
Prior to becoming a musician White led an aimless,
diverse life, working countless menial labor jobs:
dishwasher, landscaper, lifeguard, cook, surfboard
laminator, and road builder, culminating with thirteen long
years driving a taxi cab in New York City. It was during a
psychological spiral at the end of those thirteen years that
White crossed paths with David Byrne, who promptly
signed White to a record deal.
Over the ensuing twenty years there followed a
succession of critically acclaimed solo records,
appearances on major network shows like Letterman and
Conan, plus several off-beat side project releases
(Hellwood, Mama Lucky, Sounds of the Americans).
White recently completed his first novel, Incidental
Contact, a “Magical Realism memoir”, centering around a
series of uncanny coincidences that befell him during his
days driving the taxi in New York City. Two chapters of
Incidental Contact, The Bottom and Superwhite, have
previously been published in the literary music journal
Radio Silence, with Superwhite being awarded the
prestigious Pushcart Prize for short fiction.
White was a pro surfer. He served as literary
commentator for the National Endowment of the Arts. He
was a European fashion model. He once nearly got in a
fist fight with Ellen Degeneres. There’s lots more non
linear information that doesn’t really fit the usual bio
format. But that’s Jim—he gets around.