Adventures In The Slipstream, by Jim McCulloch/Green Peppers

Adventures In The Slipstream

by Jim McCulloch/Green Peppers

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1.	The Shell Song 02:16	buy track
2.	Angel Angel 04:08	buy track
3.	Carry Me Away 03:37	buy track
4.	The Apple Sun 03:40	buy track
5.	Golden Geese 02:56	buy track
6.	The Long Road 03:33	buy track
7.	Summer Was His Name 03:11	buy track
8.	So Near So Far 03:46	buy track
9.	The Liars 03:25	buy track
10.	In Time 03:48	buy track
11.	The Shell Song (Reprise) 02:17	buy track

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For Adventures In The Slipstream Jim invites an assortment of female singers to come to the microphone. That’s Sandra Belda Martinez from California Snow Story surfing the irresistible descending chord sequence that resets itself at the beginning of each verse on Carry Me Away –while, on the beguilingly dreamy Angel Angel, Melanie Whittle does the honours. Just as each of Green Peppers’ first two albums sowed the seeds of their successors, you can hear on many of Green Peppers’ final songs, intimations of the folkier direction that Jim would pursue with his current band Snowgoose. Indeed, that’s Snowgoose’s Anna Sheard you can hear on The Apple Sun (a performance she would reprise on 2012’s Harmony Springs album). Listening to this achingly world-weary meditation on the trade off between regret and wisdom, one would be forgiven for assuming the song had been passed down through generations of folk singers. But once again, it’s a measure of the distance travelled by Jim McCulloch in the four years since first subjecting one of his own compositions to the scrutiny of outsiders. Over the course of eleven songs on this album alone, it’s lovely to see how this most modest of musicians has come to an accommodation with a talent of increasingly grand proportions.

It’s a weight he carries awfully well.

- Pete Paphides

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released September 24, 2020

Vocals-Emma Pollock, Anna Sheard, Mel Whittle, Sandra Belda Martinez.
Guitars/melodica/vocals/percussion -Jim McCulloch
Dave McGowan -Bass,double bass,pedal steel,banjo,
Alyn Cosker-drums/percussion
Ross Sinclair-drums
Bill Wells-piano
Brian McNeill-keyboards

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Jim McCulloch/Green Peppers Glasgow, UK

One way or another, Jim has always been a presence, either as a Soup Dragon, or with Snowgoose, Superstar,Isobel Campbell or BMX Bandits. Those of us who clock these sorts of things could see Jim doing what he does best: servicing the beauty in a song with his unassumingly expressive playing-even when you don’t consciously notice what he’s up to, you always feel its effect-pete paphides ... more

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