The Jime are a brilliant neo-rockabilly band from Denmark
1.It's still rock'n'roll to me 2.There's a thing about love 3.Wanna rock, wanna bop 4.Lonesome train 5.Rock-it! Rock-it! 6.Looking for a girl like you 7.Learning to fly 8.Had enough of love 9.Around the world 10.Sign of the times 11.Time gone by 12.Wild, wild, wild 13.Do it 14.I wanna hold.... 15.Help 16.On the other side
The Jime
With one giant leap, the Rockabilly monster breaks free from the shackles of 'golden oldies' and 'authentic recording techniques'. Building on the foundations of the early Stray Cats and later recordings by The Blue Cats, The Jime takes Rockabilly into another dimension, with the big sound of modern recording techniques allied to the intrinsic shaking rhythms, twangy guitar and slappin' bass of Rockabilly. The whole thing has been recorded with the latest digital technology and mastered using 'state of the art' valve (tube) technology for a modern full sound coupled with the 'warmth' of analogue systems.
This is the second CD from The Jime, who hail from Denmark and are led by vocalist, guitarist and producer Vince Gordon. Denmark? Why not? This little country gave us Taggy Tones and Nekromantix.... This CD has covers of songs by Billy Joel, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Beatles and Johnny Burnette.
The Jime - reviews
"The Jime is back! You betcha! The first chords of 'It's Still Rock 'n' Roll To Me' already had shivers goin' up and down my spine. What a sound, full living stereo and what a bass on this Billy Joel original. Vince Gordon wrote: 'From the first time I heard this song in 1984, I wanted to do a neo-rockabilly version of it. When I was pickin' out songs for this album I found an old tape of mine. It was one of only two tapes I put together when I was young and the ONLY ones I used to listen to, and sure thing this song was on it.' It only took Vince three minutes to write 'There's A Thing About Love'. Wow, wish I could write a review that fast. Listen to that guitar break howling through your speakers, awesome! Guitar breaks huh? Well, the super fast 'Wanna Rock, Wanna Bop' has got FIVE. No kiddin'!! Vince 'The Guitar Wizard' Gordon at full speed! And like The Jime did 'Train Kept A Rollin' on their album 'Mean Side of Town', they're now spawning a super neo version of Johnny Burnette's 'Lonesome Train'. Actually, this is a shorter version than the one they play on stage, Vince cut one solo out (that hurts) coz he figured it seemed to fit better on a recording... Some authentic stomping rock'n'roll thunders in with 'Rock It! Rock It!, could have been a Wild Angels song, a basic pounding to get you in the groove. Vince Gordon about 'Looking For A Girl Like You': It's a song about girls, cars and rock'n'roll. What more do you need? Stop whining!' The Tom Petty original 'Learning How To Fly' was right up Vince's alley, and he just had to make a rockabilly version of it. And damn, does it rock! On 'Had Enough Of Love', Vince recalls that he was very drunk when he recorded the guitar licks, a little drunk when he did the piano, and almost sober when he did the vocals. He says, 'When you you record a good version, then the song is DONE and you can move on to the next song.' Since this is the inevitable ballad, let's just do that and move on to some more rockin'... 'Around The World' is a very happy basic rock'n'roll song, Vince remembers he wrote this song the day his mother died, and he still wonders how he could write a joyful song on a day like that. A friend suggested he might have had a co-writer! Some more excellent rockers pass the revue, the hot rockabilly song 'Sign Of The Times', the bluesy 'Time Gone By' and the fast neo-rocker 'Wild, Wild, Wild'. 'Do It' is a basic revival rockabilly Stray Cats style song, written by Vince some ten years ago, about time too he recorded it! What's that I hear on 'I Wanna Hold'? A Hammond organ? Right... Let's pretend I didn't hear that, and move on to the next song - 'Help', a Beatles original of course, that really didn't need rearranging I think, but Vince's guitar licks are great as ever. Last but not least 'On The Other Side', another Vince Gordon orginal is incomparable to anything you ever heard before and can only be labelled as 'The Jime Sound' - lotsa echo, ultimate stereo and Vince's scorching lead guitar. The entire album was produced, recorded and engineered by Vince Gordon. What a guy! Blackcat Rockabilly 2002
Lo dico subito: si tratta di uno di quei dischi che si può mettere su ad una festa e gli invitati inizieranno a ballare......delle 16 tracce 12 sono scritte da Vince mentre le restanti sono delle cover provenienti non solo dal territorio RnR.......anche se il classico "Lonesome Train", vuoi per il drive della ritmica, vuoi per il cantato che richiama i mitici fifties, vuoi per il solo sporco e rude, rimane il più bel pezzo!!! Tra le tracce originali adoro "There's a thing about love", con un ritmo boogie che ti fa venire voglia di acchiappare una ragazza e trascinarla in mezzo la pista!!! Anche la traccia dal titolo "Wild Wild Wild" lascia piacevolmente impressionati.....per i chitarristi consiglio l'intro di "Do It"......mentre per gli appassionati di canzone consiglio l'ascolto della versione RAB di "Help" dal classico repertorio Beatles...........però, su richiesta di Vince stesso, vorrei parlarvi del precedente.
"Sweeping aside the trend of primitive recording techniques within rockin' music, The Jime perform well crafted, well produced Neo-Rockabilly inspired by the likes of the early Stray Cats output and the later recordings by The Bluecats. Maintaining all of Rockabilly's most appealing aspects (catchy guitar riffs, pumping slap bass), The Jime present their excellent second album!" Howard Raucous 2003
"This second release is without doubt modelled on the early Stray Cat sound, so if you like that sort of thing, then you will love this album with 16 very well produced tracks. ... fine tunes with great vocals..." Billy B Bad - Southern Rock - March 2003
"Whooo-weee heck yeh! The Jime sure know how to whip up a rockin' fury with a Gretsch hollow body guitar, an old-fashioned upright bass, and a savage barrage of drums. Perfectly complementing the jaunty, knee-knocking instrumentation is a vocalist who robustly croons, yelps, and wails like a crossbred mutation of Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Eddie Cochran. Most of the sixteen songs on here are full-blown rockabilly rave-ups that are guaranteed to knock your goose loose, quiver your liver, and shake'n'bake your backside silly. But the lonesome, smoky, piano-driven melancholy of 'Had Enough Love' has heartbreak and misery stamped all over it, and if it doesn't melt your insides and inspire a flood of tears, then, man, you just ain't got no soul. The bluesy, alley-roaming swagger of 'I Wanna Hold' sounds like it was recorded after hours on a rainy night in a dimly lit pool hall located on the wrong side of the tracks. And, lord a-mercy, let me not forget to mention the raucous rockabilly renditions of Billy Joel's 'It's Still Rock'n'Roll To Me', Tom Petty's 'Learning To Fly' and The Beatles' 'Help'. All in all, this spectacular bone-shakin' disc is packed to the gills with the finest of today's neo-rockabilly sounds. I do declare! The Jime are the new kings on the block!" Rockabilly Revue #4 2003
"A must for all Rockabilly fans" Rockin' Fifties Magazine, Germany
"A very good band in full control" R-O-C-K magazine, Norway
"At the moment this band is being celebrated worldwide as the best new 'Neo-Band' Sillybilly website, Germany
"...some of the best neo-rockabilly I've heard in quite a while" PlanetRockabilly
"One of the best, if not the best, rockabilly band of today" Anchormans Stray Cats site, Holland
"After hearing the Jime's latest release, 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me', I was surprised that I have not heard of this neo-rockabilly trio from Denmark before. Released on Nervous Records, 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me' is the Jime's third release to date and contains some of the best neo-rockabilly I've heard in quite a while. Starting off with a cover of Billy Joel's 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me' (if you hadn't already guessed), the CD is done in what lead singer/guitarist Vince Gordon describes as a 'fat American sound'. To me it sounds very dynamic and full in range, a departure from the usual mid-range sound that most neo-bands tend to shoot for. The rhythm section is flawless and Vince pulls out some leads that would even make old Setzer himself a little green with envy. Stand-outs on the CD are 'It's Still Rock and Roll To Me', 'There's A Thing About Love' (best track in my opinion) and 'Rock-It! Rock-It!' (guaranteed to get your toes a-tappin'). I also dug their treatment of Tom Petty's 'Learning to Fly' quite a bit as well. Be sure to check these guys out!!!" Mattfink , Planet Rockabilly, USA.
Vince Gordon has written a great book on playing rockabilly guitar.
The Jime are a brilliant neo-rockabilly band from Denmark
This is the second CD from The Jime, who hail from Denmark and are led by vocalist, guitarist and producer Vince Gordon. Denmark? Why not? This little country gave us Taggy Tones and Nekromantix.... This CD has covers of songs by Billy Joel, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Beatles and Johnny Burnette.