Jim White

Where lesser musical genres cast aside those grizzled and battered by time’s tide, in Jim’s world wisdom and well-honed storytelling count for everything.

This is the second time I’ve been to hear Jim play the last time was at St Pancras Old Church and like at that gig his support act are also his backing band for the tour.

He populates his southern gothic songs with characters who have complicated connections with god, damaged romantic relationships, and struggles with their mental health.

Jim White blends his quirkiness with traditional elements to intriguing, sincere and hilarious effect

It is the look of a man who likes what he sees in front of him; someone who has now achieved certain levels of serenity and satisfaction in his life.

Jim White is playing the second of his two sold out London dates and it’s rather fitting that it’s in a church. It’s not that he’s a religious man in the traditional sense, although he once was, it’s more that for a man who spends almost as much time speaking as he does singing, the soft acoustics and hushed

The 56-year-old Floridian is a neat man of small movements, and his music too has incremental, gentle power.