Jim White + Ben De La Cour

Numerous songs from White’s back catalogue 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 recognise White as the narrator and de facto 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.”

Prior to becoming a musician, White led an aimless, diverse life, working countless menial labour jobs, culminating in 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. There followed a succession of critically acclaimed solo records.

White recently completed his first novel, Incidental Contact, a “Magical Realism memoir” centring on a series of uncanny coincidences that befell him during his days driving a taxi.

Ben de la Cour’s visceral songwriting grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go. Weaving evocative stories of desperate characters with his signature “Americanoir” sound, de la Cour shines a glaring light on the human condition. De la Cour’s songs are as heartbreaking as they are beautiful.

Photo Michel Goessens.