Wrong-Eyed Jesus! (Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Jim White

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 22, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Luaka Bop
• ASIN: B00004RD20
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #305,254 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The title of Jim White's debut album, Wrong-Eyed Jesus! refers not to any of the 11 original songs but to the short story that takes up 14 of the CD booklet's 18 pages. It's actually a pretty good story, full of the religious imagery and Southern weirdness that make White sort of a beatnik Flannery O'Connor, and the outsider folk art that accompanies it seems appropriate. Being a good writer and a bohemian artist is not the same thing as being a musician, however, and the songs' out-of-tune mumbling, melodic minimalism, ramshackle arrangements, and gratuitous symbolism make White sound like Leonard Cohen at his worst. --Geoffrey Himes

Product Description
Originally released in the summer of 1997, this genius of a record with a beautiful country feel throughout is now available and repackaged. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A album that's a genius work of art that requires time, January 15, 2004

By	PHILIP J ORD (NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, MERSEYSIDE England) - See all my reviews

I just want to write something here as the editorial review on this site gives completely the wrong impression. It sounds to me like that reviewer didn't give the album enough chance, and that he judged it too hastily and perhaps snappily.

One-Eyed Jesus is certainly not for everybody, but I consider it to be a bona fide masterpiece that requires an awful lot of time and effort to fully appreciate. The sound of the album is a very layered one, and it's only with a great many repeated plays that it truly reveals itself; at that point the music and poetic lyrics really do start to hook you. There's a mysticism about the whole thing somehow, and once you begin to understand the album's transcendent nature (particularly evident towards the end of the album) it repeatedly produces a smile, and makes the heart leap!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good, Strange Trip, March 27, 2001

By A Customer

I got introduced to the works of Jim White after reading a capasle review of "No Such Place" in Time Magazine and discovered "Wrong Eyed Jesus". The title actually refers to a bizarre encounter Mr. White had in his rural southern teen years and is quite harrowing. The song themselves are wonderful. They will not make much sense.at first. Jim White is an expert songwriter. Some of my favorites on this album include "The Book of Angels" which is probably a plea for a girl. "Still Waters" is oddly southern gothic in which there is a ghost in the matter of course and a beautiful chorus. "A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados" is a masterpiece. This album is very subtle and has lots of religious overtones. You can't classify Jim White until you listen to his music and I recommend that everyone should.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charles W. Miller doesnt know what hes talking about.., January 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Wrong-Eyed Jesus! (Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted) (Audio CD)

Jim Whites debut album is ground breaking music...Starting with a 14 page story in the attached booklet about how he (jim white) shouted "wrong eyed Jesus" to the complete mixture of bluesey folk music with a twisted spiritual edge makes one drool over each tasty morsel that jim serves to the ears..the lyrics are catchy and you find yourself humming and singing the strange lyrics to the amazement of gaping onlooker..."I whisper beautiful secrets down the drain pipes at night" and other such fun, twisted, music..
In a age when all music is starting to sound the same. Jim white breaks new ground and this CD is a must have along with his second album