Joni`s Garden, by Jim McCulloch/Green Peppers

Joni`s Garden

by Jim McCulloch/Green Peppers

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1.	Joni`s Garden 04:46	buy track
2.	Green 03:44	buy track
3.	Anything Goes 02:57	buy track
4.	I Get It ! 03:06	buy track
5.	The Dreamer 03:43	buy track
6.	If I Gave It All Away 02:50	buy track
7.	It`s Nothing 03:32	buy track
8.	I Can`t Believe I Let Her Slip Away 03:10	buy track
9.	Blink Of An Eye 03:50	buy track
10.	The Sun And Moon And Stars 03:54	buy track
11.	Time Machine 04:22	buy track

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It took Jim a while to realise that maybe if he had played such a vital role in the success of so many other musicians, he might have what it takes to go it alone. In fact, it was in 2004 18 years after opening his account with The Soup Dragons that Jim released the first of the three ostensibly solo albums . And even then, his ambivalence about occupying centre stage was reflected in the fact that it was a band name you saw on those records. Green Peppers is what Jim decided to call his solo project, after he wrote Green the song that persuaded him that it was now or never. The idea for that song, came to Jim after he was cut up by a Harley Davidson one morning while he was cycling to work, its autumnal languor belying the charged encounter that inspired it.

To hear Jim singing, “And all that you do/Will come back to haunt you/Without too much persuading” is to hear someone, almost literally, finding their voice right in front of you.

The cloistered intimacy of those early compositions perhaps reflected the circumstances in which they were created. Jim had just become a father, and certainly it’s no great stretch to imagine a newborn baby being serenaded to sleep by The Sun and Moon and Stars. His high, hushed delivery perfectly complements the hymnal simplicity of a song which appears to deal with the acceptance of loss: “You’re fading from your bones/And night has found your armour rusting away.” Similarly, on Anything Goes, Jim sounds like a soul in retreat from the confusions of modern life, his plaintive acoustic downstrokes embellished by an exquisitely spare piano accompaniment. It’s only Time Machine here that previews the fuller arrangements that would mark Green Peppers’ re-emergence in 2007 with Domino Mornings-Pete Paphides

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released September 24, 2020

The Players- Jim McCulloch/Alan Hutchison/Jim Gash/Isobel Campbell/Davie Scott

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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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