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Missing Tracks:
GLENDALE FAMILY - Honey Makes You Happy
LEVI WASHINGTON – Wanderlust
MONO LIFE – Midnight
AMY MONTGOMERY - Dangerous
JOSHUA BURNSIDE - Hollllllogram
HELLO CASANOVA - I Am A Machine
ROE - Etc Etc
REWS - Shine
LEON OF ATHENS - Fire Inside You
BEST BOY GRIP - Molecular Individuals

September 2017 Savoir-faire

WORK ANXIETY SYNDROME

Jim Pearson

Traffic Jams

My new gtr... came packaged with this tune... first play...

Jim Dandy

From the album "Self assembly"
©Jim Pearson 2011

Listen to the album... http://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/album/self-assembly

What Happened To You?

©Jim Pearson 2015
More existential angst and a little hope.

Listen to the album on Spotify or listen/download from here... https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/album/it-might-never-happen

Thank you to everyone who helped me complete the recording of this song, it has made it a bit special for me. 

Paul Marsden (trumpets), Russell Cottier (melodeon), and on vocals... Ian Heath, Jeff Roberts, Scott Cryer, Jo Bywater, Tom and Helene Lockett (The Kirk Owls, Caroline England, Henry Priestman, Phil Chisnall, Bob Glass and Elizabeth Fitzsimons (Coast), Fred Arnell and members of The Wallasey Folk and Acoustic Club. 

Right now is the moment that you are alive
So put down your burdens and give yourself a high five
You can’t run away ‘cos there’s nowhere to hide
Right now is the moment that you are alive

If you’re stuck in the past you will never be free
Thinking life was better the way it used to be
When you're lost in the mist of your own memory
Look under your nose and I hope you can see

If you look too far ahead you are going to miss out
Consumed by anxiety, riddled with doubt
But when you’re on your deathbed you’ll you figure it out
You came in with nothing and you’re leaving with nowt

The state of the world’s driven you to the brink
You get out of your mind so you don’t have to think
And it’s all flashing by faster than you can blink
So wake up before it all goes down the sink

Wake up, smell the coffee make the most of the day
Or wear a stiff upper lip in the civilized way
Or get down on your knees, beg for mercy and pray
But the voices inside you just won’t go away

Too many opinions, you can’t hear for the din
You long for the day when you’re silent within
But don’t let the bastards get under your skin
Just take a deep breath and get ready to sing

Right now is the moment that we are alive
So put down your burdens and give yourself a high five
You can’t run away ‘cos there’s nowhere to hide
Right now is the moment that we are alive

©Jim Pearson 2014

Right Now Is The Moment That We Are Alive

Everythin is OK

My Girl

ITUNES

Music Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AUncdA3ZDc
Brand new Glastonbury production duo Speakman Sound take dance into unchartered territories with the psychedelic stylings of their debut single In Flight (feat.Sharky).

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In Flight (feat. Sharky)

Put You On

Beautiful Eyes Ontario Skies

Beautiful Eyes - With You All (Acoustic Version)

Objects

All Objects Will Cease

Luna

GPS By Flo Ft K19 remixed on a brand new original song by shot project

By Flo Ft K19 (SHOT Remix)

GPS (SHOT Remix)

new wave conscious rap/rnb from the UK

<a href="https://theartistunion.com/tracks/39768f" rel="nofollow">Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Going Home

Hose Out

This track is from the album Work Anxiety Syndrome.
You can download it and/or buy the CD from 
http://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/album/work-anxiety-syndrome
Or iTunes.

Struck

Keeping Up Appearances

©Jim Pearson 2013
In the grip of a mid-life crises
Listen to the album on Spotify or listen/download from here... 
http://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/album/work-anxiety-syndrome

This Is How We Have Fun was written in pan-Atlantic collaboration with Jeff Roberts from Charlottesville.

This Is How We Have Fun

My Father's Chair

We're Not Coming Back

Winner of 2024 Liverpool Songwriting Competition with "The Boy With the Red Hat", taken from "Death to Mortality".

People have said that Jim plays guitar like a drummer. He is. In the mid eighties, he toured the Far East, Europe and Tyneside with near-legendary Geordie club band Foxy, before putting down his sticks, opting for a life of obscurity as graphic designer, husband and dad.

In his late thirties with a mid-life-crises looming, he started writing and recording his songs, self-releasing “Some Songs by Jim Pearson” in his fortieth year.

Suddenly, nothing happened, so he continued, and gradually accumulated a niche following of several well-intentioned virtual people, each possessing an uncanny appreciation of music and lyrics, as well as managing to get a handful of plays on BBC 6 music.

Jim is also singer, guitarist, songwriter with niche NW-UK band Scaredycats, who's debut album "Dumb Animals" was pronounced album of the year by Liverpool Sound and Vision in 2017.

Last year, he was a key collaborator and producer with international lockdown supergroup "Nothing On TV".

According to Jim... "You might not agree, but I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never get the global recognition I so clearly deserve, and honestly, I am all the happier for it."

BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson says... “This is the astonishingly prolific Merseyside songwriter Jim Pearson… you never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it’s gonna be pretty darn good...” (The Tom Robinson Show, January 25th 2020)

Songwriter from Northern England
https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R96vnb0ABdaZRMLG4XUNf

Scaredycats
https://scaredycatsuk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/02W2iVwO5b3EIjzspgmS1N

Nothing On TV
https://nothingontv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/07ADDEerdBir7xBgvdYyeo?si=k65U2tPkQuqbd1WFuPQOyA