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December 07, 2004
Don't doubt your painful birth
Jim Guthrie - World of Jimmy 3-Guts
This a nice little song: warm, intimate, breezy. It sounds like what it's like to sit on a screened-in porch and watch a summer thunderstorm. I'm pretty sure I got this from Three Gut Records' website last year around Valentine's Day, and I'm also 90% certain that this is a re-recorded version of 'The Fabulous World of Jimmy 3-Guts', from Guthrie's first LP, 'A Thousand Songs'. This new version is shorter (true), and has a lot more strings (speculative), and features Jim Guthrie's great-aunt on electric guitar (false).
Guthrie's voice is so surprising- I don't know what it is about it, but the way he sings is extremely delicate (at least in this song), and he sounds like a child that's been scolded, apologized to, and now sits simmering with indignation on the couch, coloring as neatly as he can in his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Adventure book. 'World of Jimmy 3-Guts' is definitely a prime candidate for an early-in-the-relationship mix tape. Not for the lyrics, mind you, because that would be viciously weird, but the music is perfect for that overjoyed and semi-reckless initial stage, just prior to when you use nicknames like 'babycakes', and way prior to the use of nicknames like 'wet noodle'.
Anyway, if you like this, check out Jim Guthrie's other records, and listen to them. hard.
Posted by matt at December 7, 2004 08:00 AM