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- Summary: The debut full-length release for the Alabama-based singer-songwriter was co-produced by Dan Auerbach and David "Fergie" Ferguson.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Blues, Pop/Rock
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Apr 28, 2020Singing for My Supper is unapologetically rooted in the past, but James is just idiosyncratic and genuinely talented enough to avoid pastiche, as he effortlessly amalgamates Southern blues, country, folk, pop, and jazz into something that evokes Jason Isbell by way of Lee Hazlewood or Tim Buckley.
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Mar 17, 2020Early James is a young artist infused with the ghosts of another time. His shape-shifting music is impossible to pigeonhole but after spending 35 minutes with it, you’ll understand that Auerbach has once again found a new, distinctive, impressively mature and strikingly focused talent with a bright future.
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MojoMar 17, 2020A superlative crooner with grit, soul and impeccable phrasing, James caresses and finesses every syllable of his highly literate, deeply personal songs. [Apr 2020, p.88]
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UncutMar 17, 2020With a touch of the sinister, James' voice swerves through a spectrum of wild emotions; folk, blues and a dreamy, eerie style of pop wind their way through everything here. [Apr 2020, p.27]
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Mar 17, 2020Early James is 26, but his music has much older underpinnings, glancing back to the 1970s, the 1960s and before.