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"Jim White Presents Music From Searching For A Wrong Eyed Jesus" (LUAKA BOP, 1997/2005)

 

 "Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus is a thought-provoking road trip through the american south - a world of churches prison, coalmines, truckstops, juke joints, swamps and mountains. Along the way the viewer encounters various musicians, including the handsome family, Johnny Dowd, 16 horsepower and David Johansen, old time banjo player lee sexton, rockabilly and mountain gospel churches and novelist harry crews telling grisly stories down a dirt track. The film is a collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin, redemption, heaven or hell, with no middle ground. And all the while, a strange southern jesus looms in the background."

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"Jim White's debut album is a cinematic collection of Appalachia-inspired country-folk rendered with a gothic sensibility and junkyard atmospherics (the inclusion of Tom Waits collaborator Ralph Carney on several tracks lends the record a distinctly Waits-ish veneer). Drawing on his bizarre life experiences and troubled Pentecostal upbringing, White's narratives are surreal and crazed, shot through with disturbing spiritual imagery and backwoods dementia; a strangely beautiful record, Wrong-Eyed Jesus! is a fine introduction to a uniquely twisted talent."

Soundtrack Credits

Still waters

Written and Performed by Jim White

My Sister's Tiny Hands

Written and Performed by The Handsome Family

First there was

Performed by Johnny Dowd and Maggie Brown

Crossbones Style

Written and Performed by Cat Power

The Last Kind Word Blues

Written by Geeshie Wiley and Performed by David Johansen & Larry Saltzman

The Wound That Never Heals

Written and Performed by Jim White

Wayfaring Stranger

Traditional, Performed by David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower)

Small Town

Written and Performed by Mayor

Black Soul Choir

Written and Performed by 16 Horsepower

Little Maggie

Traditional, Performed by Lee Sexton

Coo Coo Bird

Traditional, Performed by Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley

Amazing Grace

Traditional, Performed by Melissa Swingle

Christmas Day

Written and Performed by Jim White