How Jim White Helped His Bluebird Spread Her Wings

By

Max Blau

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Fifteen years ago, on the outskirts of the tiny railroad town of Winterville, Georgia, Jim White bought a run-down house. It needed a fresh coat of paint and a new kitchen floor. But the bones seemed strong. 

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One response to “How Jim White Helped His Bluebird Spread Her Wings”

  1. Richard Sanford

    God, I missed Jim White. Those second and third records of his were so massive to me that when I didn’t like the fourth as much, I kind of lost touch with what he was doing. This brilliant essay about his relationship with his daughter sent me back to the rock-solid records I missed, and they primed me for this new one, the same kind of outsider art/hillbilly postmodernism no one does with the same heartbreaking flair.

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