Category: Jim White

Let’s hear it for Jim White! The drummer has been having a hell of a year. He got back together with the Dirty Three, he released his first solo album, the playful/absorbing All Hits: Memories; he put out a new duo record with the fantastic guitarist Marisa Anderson; he showed up on Ned Collette, Bill Callahan and Myriam Gendron’s latest masterpieces. And just this month, the Hard Quartet released their excellent s/t debut.

To celebrate Jim’s sound, dig into a small sampling of tracks that the drummer has appeared on over the past several months.

What happens when a renowned collaborator records a solo album? That’s the question when considering Jim White’s first solo endeavor, All Hits: Memories. White first came to prominence as the drummer for the seminal Australian band Dirty Three and now comprises the other half of a slew of duos, including Xylouris White, The Double, and with Marisa Anderson. Additionally, he’s provided percussive wizardry to songs by Cat Power, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, PJ Harvey, Bill Callahan, and many others. White has an innate ability to adapt to the particular tone of a song, his contributions are always apt, surprising, and elevate the final result. 

There’s a key moment in Jim White’s fifth and latest LP, Where It Hits You , where the album pushes itself into emotional depths only hinted at in its opening sections. When the marching-band […]

If I were performing a play titled The Americans, I’d want Jim White to write the score for it as well. It just makes sense to have one of the […]

If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing Jim White in a live setting – whether with big, full band arrangements in big, seated, venues or in small, dark clubs touring by himself, […]

The following interview should be required listening for Beck fans, and those with even a passing interest in the production of making rekkids. A candid late-’90s interview, journalist Neil Strauss and Beck […]