Splash Stories With Jim Bob [Carter USM] Thanks For Reaching Out

Splash Stories enjoyed a cracking chat with Jim Bob - front man of  Carter USM - To celebrate his 12th solo studio album : – Thanks For Reaching Out  - a stone cold masterpiece. • Featuring 38 minutes of pop, punk rock and devastatingly moving ballads.

The  title track offers a feeling of hope and romance in an “effed up world”. With its Jam/Strange Town vibe and Terry Edwards (Madness, Higsons, Gallon Drunk, Holy Holy) on saxophone and trumpet, it’s a great opener and he declares, “This is my Long and Winding Road, my God Only Knows, my Up the Junction, typed up on a bus and sent from my iPhone”.

Album released June 30 via Cherry Red Records on 30 June 2023

The album is available on vinyl, CD Cassette & digital platforms. The vinyl is purple in a gatefold sleeve with a 2024 calendar and the CD version comes with a second disc ‘This is My Mixtape;’ a collection of cover versions recorded especially for the album. Jim Bob and his band The Hoodrats take on the Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Mk.I song Sebastian, Are Friends Electric and song Country Comfort from Elton John’s Tumbleweed Connection. There’s also a great version of Geno that started as a tour bus singalong

Live Jim Bob dates to celebrate the album’s release are on sale now:

12 July: Leeds Brudenell
13 July: Nottingham Rescue Rooms
14 July: Bristol Thekla
15 July: Brighton Chalk
2 December: Brixton Electric

❉  Tickets from seetickets.com

Info
Jim Bob Thanks For Reaching Out purple LP, cassette, 2CD including This Is My Mixtape, are on Cherry Red, 30 June. cherryred.co.uk
First single – Sebastian’s Gone On A Ridealong https://youtu.be/AInM9y6GcXQ
2nd single Thanks For Reaching Out https://youtu.be/hqQdYpe7_wM
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