Album Notes

VOCAL STYLINGS

"My music could probably be called Americana or roots rock or alt-country, but I never aspired to have it sound any way but what it is. Bingotherapy, the band playing on my album, Coming Home, is all over the map musically, from funk to traditional country to 60s psychedelia. I sing the songs, but the music goes wherever it is pushed or pulled. All the songs on this album have a least one line that sends chills down my spine, and I get those chills every time I sing them, whether it's the first or hundredth time. Now I know what people mean when they talk about making an intensely personal album - all the songs come from somewhere deep within me, and I couldn't change them if I tried."

BACKGROUND

Jim Livermore was born in a small town in Eastern Oregon. After college he connected with the music he had grown up with: Ferlin Huskey, Faron Young, and Johnny Horton, as channeled through the alt-country artists of the time: Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, the Bottle Rockets, and many others. He has been singing and playing guitar since his early twenties. He lives in Portland with his wife, Jones.

ABOUT MY CD

"The idea for my first CD, Coming Home, has been rattling around in my head for a long time. I connect with all these songs, and I see them as diamonds in the rough - beautiful, but with lots in them still to be uncovered.

Johnny Horton's I'm Coming Home is a perfect example. Originally recorded in the late 1950s, it had that constrained feel of a lot of music that, at the time, couldn't find its home in country or rock and roll. My recording still has it in that grey zone that we now call Americana or alt-country, but we tried to loosen it up and lengthen it, and give it a sonic quality it couldn't have had in that era. Lyrically, it couldn't be more perfect, and my hope is that it all all the other songs on the album will again see the light of day they deserve." - Jim