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Wild Card by Jim Allen
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fave it Americana | Roots Rock
13 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Sep 2003
on Hardcover Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:28 King of the Jews lyrics BUY MP3 03:28 King of the Jews lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:28 King of the Jews
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:07 I'll Need You Then lyrics BUY MP3 03:07 I'll Need You Then lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:07 I'll Need You Then
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:17 A Little Bit of Love lyrics BUY MP3 03:17 A Little Bit of Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:17 A Little Bit of Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Black Black Sea lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 Black Black Sea lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Black Black Sea
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:29 The Verdict lyrics BUY MP3 03:29 The Verdict lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:29 The Verdict
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:34 Where The Heart Is lyrics BUY MP3 02:34 Where The Heart Is lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:34 Where The Heart Is
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:52 Blue Neon Light lyrics BUY MP3 02:52 Blue Neon Light lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:52 Blue Neon Light
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:11 Arthur Alexander lyrics BUY MP3 03:11 Arthur Alexander lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:11 Arthur Alexander
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:55 It Might As Well Rain lyrics BUY MP3 05:55 It Might As Well Rain lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:55 It Might As Well Rain
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:38 A Thousand Ways lyrics BUY MP3 02:38 A Thousand Ways lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:38 A Thousand Ways
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 Looking at You lyrics BUY MP3 04:19 Looking at You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:19 Looking at You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:54 Little Green Circles lyrics BUY MP3 01:54 Little Green Circles lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:54 Little Green Circles
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:20 No One For Me lyrics BUY MP3 03:20 No One For Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:20 No One For Me
Roots Rock/Americana/Singer-Songwriter
Bio / Background
How does a native of the Bronx, New York get mixed up in blues and country music? Why would a right-handed man play guitar left-handed, upside-down with five strings, in a self-invented tuning? Exactly what does Charles Baudelaire have to do with Merle Haggard? These questions can only be answered by listening to the music of Jim Allen. As represented by his three albums, Allen's music is like the bastard offspring of Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash. He combines American roots music (country, R&B, soul, Tex-Mex, etc.) with dark, poetic imagery leavened by just the right touch of self-deprecating humor. His rich baritone moves with authority through sympathetic tales of characters caught in the dark underside of the American dream, rendered in lyrics equally influenced by the symbolism of 19th-Century French poets and by the blue-collar prose of Merle Haggard and Charles Bukowski.
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