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Goodbye Smile 03:43
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All The Hearts In The Universe 03:58
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Don't Smoke Anymore 04:01
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About That Kiss 04:32
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Like Lucifer 04:16
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Heyoka 02:19
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The New Kick 02:46
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Suckers 02:04
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In The Street, In The Night 02:23
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Blinding Love 04:45
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Bloody Sam 04:53
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Awoken 03:48
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www.myspace.com/jimsalinger

www.twitter.com/jimsalinger

www.last.fm/music/Jim+Salinger/

"Awoken" featured on One Tree Hill, video clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uip6P2O0Pqc

DOWNLOAD PDF PRESS KIT (includes hi-res photos): downloads.jimsalinger.com/Jim_Salinger_Press_Kit_2009.pdf


BIO:

“If you’re anything like me then you probably think there aren’t enough cat’s carrying on the Paul Westerberg torch. If that be the case, then look no further than my man Jim Salinger. His new one, HEYOKA, is simply just a great no bullshit rock record much in the vein of Westy’s “14 Songs”. Definitely diggin’ it.” - captainsdead.com


Balancing romantic honesty with the rebellious nature of rock ‘n’ roll, Jim Salinger’s music conjures up greats from the past while extending and re-imagining the tradition of the American singer-songwriter.

Born and raised in the ‘burbs of Philadelphia, PA. his first experience with recording was a lo-fi cover of Love and Rockets’ “No New Tale To Tell” when he was 14. "I played it for my Mom and she said it sounded like the Devil, so I knew I was doing something right," he recalls. “I had a fake band name too, ‘Fat Kids In Slayer T-Shirts’, it all makes a bit more sense to me now.”

Many moons have passed since Jim left his imaginary band to pursue a solo music career in Los Angeles. His latest full-length release, HEYOKA, maintains the organic and eclectic elements that make Jim who he is — a genuine artist crafting songs that are both personal and impressionistic. Filled with captivating surprises, his sophomore effort offers a very liberal mix of gritty garage rock, cello-adorned indie pop and bittersweet acoustic meditations. His top-selling iTunes download “Awoken”, featured on the hit CW show One Tree Hill, was inspired by a renewed interest in spirituality.

Jim reveals, “Lately, I’ve been mindful of the bigger universal picture hidden in my little cryptic songs. Some of the HEYOKA material came from this dual perspective. I want to keep it real, but still keep you guessing."

"The Drunken Arms" is Jim's backing band, a group of accomplished musicians that he enlisted during his 2007 demo sessions at Stanley Recordings in Santa Monica, CA. The Drunken Arms are also key players in a handful of emerging L.A. bands (The Broken Remotes, The Quincy Blaque Trio, All Wrong and The Plans Change, Bolero, Sweetloop, Golden Holy.)

HEYOKA features original cover artwork by the renowned (and reportedly deceased) urban street artist EThos. This album, along with the single “Dripping Sweet Regret” and “Cozy Like A Cover”, a home recorded covers collection, with songs by Neil Young, The Velvet Underground and Big Star, are available for free download on Jim’s site: www.jimsalinger.com


Buy HEYOKA at CDBaby: www.cdbaby.com/cd/salinger2





PROFILE:

FULL NAME: James Kevin Salinger

NICKNAME: "Slaz", this one's from high school, I'm still shedding it. "El Jimador" is a new one that's gaining traction

HOMETOWN: Audubon, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philly. Los Angeles has been home base for the last decade

RECORD LABEL: Outarico Records (my own independent label)

DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND: Did you see that SNL skit with Fred Armisen as Joshua Rainhorn? "When he plays, we're in a garage watching our father cry." To classify genres, I'd say Amerindie rock revival, roots rock, alt.country, singer-songwriter. I’m a music nut, which makes me a musical mutt.

PROUDEST MOMENT AS A MUSICIAN: Listening to the final mastered version of my album HEYOKA.

STRANGEST MOMENT AS A MUSICIAN: Getting the song "Awoken” on One Tree Hill. Got a lot of phone calls from ladies I hadn't heard from in awhile.

THE SONG YOU WISH YOU'D WRITTEN: The whole song cycle on the 2nd side of The Beatles - Abbey Road.

FIVE MUSICIANS YOU ADMIRE: Robert Pollard, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Dylan, Prince, John Lennon

DESCRIBE YOURSELF AS A KID: I was a very happy kid. Until I started paying too much attention to how messed up the world can be. I'm sure reading The Catcher In The Rye a few times validated my adolescent alienation

LAST TWO BOOKS YOU'VE READ: Carlos Castaneda's Journey To Ixtlan, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist

THINGS WE'D FIND IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR: A blowtorch and a teapot

FAVORITE MUPPET: Animal, I have a soft spot for wild creatures

HARDEST PART ABOUT BEING A MUSICIAN: Promoting your own music, I'm better at the creating part than the selling part. But I can talk for hours about band's like My Morning Jacket

IDEAL BREAKFAST: Basted eggs and buttered english muffins

DRINK OF CHOICE: Jack & Ginger

BEST ALBUM TO PLAY AFTER A BREAK-UP: That's easy, one of my favorites. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

INDULGENCE YOU REFUSE TO GIVE UP: Dunkin Donuts coffee, it's expensive on the west coast

WORDS TO LIVE BY: Follow your bliss


DOWNLOAD PDF PRESS KIT (includes hi-res photos): downloads.jimsalinger.com/Jim_Salinger_Press_Kit_2009.pdf
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released 14 February 2010
Produced by Mister Squirt
Recorded, Engineered & Mixed By Josh Latham & John Would at Stanley Recordings, Santa Monica, CA
Mastered By Stephen Marsh at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA

All Songs Written By Jim Salinger
Copyright 2008 Outarico Records
Imaginary Troubadour Music (BMI)
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"Colorbleed" Cover Art by Ethos www.Ethosism.com (RIP)
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Track Name: Goodbye Smile
For that girl we all let out a collective sigh
But you know with every hello there’s always a goodbye

Now if you’re cryin’
Oh, if you’re cryin’
Standing by my side

Now if you’re smilin’
Oh, if you’re smilin’
This must be goodbye
Your goodbye smile

For that girl we all ran out and bought a ring
But you know in a year or so it doesn’t mean a thing

Oh, if you’re cryin’
Oh, if you’re cryin’
Standing by my side
Now if you’re smilin’
Oh, if you’re smilin’
This must be goodbye
Your goodbye smile

I could tell you all you wanna hear
Clear away your doubt my dear
But I hear you’re movin’ on
Cuz you can’t go on

So go on

For that girl we never had a word to say
You’re so sensitive, she probably thinks you’re gay

Oh if you’re cryin’
Oh if you’re cryin’
You’re never satisfied

Now if you’re smilin’
Oh if you’re smilin’
This must be goodbye
Your goodbye smile

This must be goodbye
Your goodbye smile

Goodbye, goodbye smile
Goodbye, goodbye smile

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: All The Hearts In The Universe
Looking so pathetic
You are so poetic
With words so prophetic
They’re burning off your lips
Uh huh

Dancing like a cave in
Crashin’ on your ravin’
Gabbin’ like a maven
You’re a big know it all
Uh huh

Everyone in the family thinks you need to grow up
Believe me sister, I’m your baby brother
Now all the hearts in the universe revolve around you
How can you misconstrue “I love you”?
I love you
I love you

Skipping off the boulders
Feeling ten years older
Than that monkey on your shoulder
He’s your only company
Uh huh

Attacking every issue
Everyone can see through
The glass is cutting me too
I ain’t too proud to bleed
Oh No

Everyone in the family thinks you need to shut up
Believe me Mary Ann, I’m speaking for all of us
Now all the hearts in the universe revolve around you

How can you misconstrue “I love you”?
I love you
I love you

I swear
I swear

All the hearts in the universe
Are all crossed in reverse
All the hearts in the universe
They’re all crossed in reverse

I swear

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Don't Smoke Anymore
You are the invitation, I never receive
You are the moderation, exceeding me
You are an old quotation, I read silently
You are my inspiration, in spite of me
You are, you are so shimmery and bright,
Oh I could almost ask you for a light
Even though
I don’t smoke anymore

don’t smoke anymore
don’t smoke anymore
don’t smoke anymore
I don’t smoke anymore, no more

I am the bells and whistles, that suckered you in
I am the sterling silver, really made of tin
I am the dead wreath hanging, on your neighbor’s door
I am your faith in Jesus, that is no more
I am, I am an impossible pipe dream
Burning my whole life, like a fiend
Even though
I don’t smoke anymore

don’t smoke anymore
don’t smoke anymore
don’t smoke anymore
I don’t smoke anymore, no more

You are, you are so shimmery and bright,
Oh I could almost ask you for a light
Even though
I don’t smoke anymore

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: About That Kiss
Keep it to yourself
Don’t tell nobody else about…
About that kiss

Now about that kiss
It doesn’t happen everyday
Now about that kiss
Oh let me count the ways
I wanna count the ways
starting today
yeah

I dream a lot of dreams whenever you’re around
I dream a lot of dreams whenever you’re around
Whenever you’re around, I dream

I waste a lot of time whenever I’m alone
I waste a lot of time whenever I’m alone
Whenever I’m alone, I’m wasted
Yeah

So keep it to yourself
Don’t tell nobody else about…
About that kiss
Keep it to yourself
Don’t tell nobody else about…
About that kiss

I dream a lot of dreams whenever you’re around
I dream a lot of dreams whenever you’re around
Whenever you’re around, I dream

I waste a lot of time whenever I’m alone
I waste a lot of time whenever I’m alone
Whenever I’m alone, I’m wasted
Yeah

So keep it to yourself
Don’t tell nobody else about…
About that kiss

Keep it to yourself
Don’t tell nobody else about…
About that kiss

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Like Lucifer
Like Lucifer, up your sleeve
I’m closer than, you can believe
Demons come, demons go
If I smile again, then you’ll know

I’ve come back to you
I’ve come back

You’re gonna miss me, when I’m gone
How many times have we played that song?
I’m a Texan, I’m an Alien
A Momma’s Boy, if you knew me when…

But I’ve come back to you
I’ve come back
I’ve come back to you
I’ve come back

With these hands, I waved goodbye
With starry eyes, I searched the sky
With trembling words, I apologize
If I scream again, then you’ll realize

I’ve come back to you
I’ve come back
I’ve come back to you
I’ve come back

I’ve come back
I’ve come back
I’ve come back

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Heyoka
Heyoka had a dream
Now Thunderbird is free
When lightening strikes
No one is prepared

Is your life such a mystery?
Heyoka don’t you agree?
If no one knows the way
That’s the only way

So stand before us all
And we will watch you play
And maybe we’ll learn
To laugh our fear away

Is your life such a mystery?
Heyoka don’t you agree?
If no one knows the way
Then that’s the only way

That’s the only way
That’s the only way
Track Name: The New Kick
Gonna ride to the north this weekend
Gonna set your spirits free
Gonna bite all the vampires screaming
And kick the moon into the sea

I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting alone

You never know who you’ll meet there
You never know who’ll you’ll be
If you never crack the ice around you
And dissolve in the anarchy

I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting alone

You never go home
You never go home
You never go home

Awhhh…

I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
(you never go home)
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
(you never go home)
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting
(you never go home)
I’ve been waiting for the new kick, waiting alone
(you never go home)

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Suckers
Everybody’s buying the latest fashion
Everybody’s buying the latest fashion
Everybody’s buying the latest fashion
Everybody’s buying the latest fashion

But you and me

Everybody’s listen to the preacher
Everybody’s listen to the preacher
Everybody’s listen to the preacher
Everybody’s listen to the preacher

But you and me

Everybody’s getting on the bandwagon
Everybody’s getting on the bandwagon
Everybody’s getting on the bandwagon
Everybody’s getting on the bandwagon

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: In The Street, In The Night
The party is over
everyone went home
but there’s a light still shining
In the street,
In the night,
In your arms

You’re all covered in confetti
and I can tell you’re drunk
but no one’s complaining

In the street,
In the night,
In your arms

We’re dancing, with no music
but you’re singing, in my ear
to the gun shots ringing

In the street,
In the night,
In your arms

In the street,
In the night,
In your arms

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Blinding Love
I was waiting for a song
Or a bird
To fly into my guitar
Just to make her sing
“Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo”

But now you landed here
And I’ve got wings
Oh now you finally see
I’m blinded by your love

At first I laugh, when you sigh
Talkin’ on our backs, side by side
Sugar when we kiss, I hold on tight

To the barbed wire, wrapped around your heart
Forget the rusty cuts, I want the deepest part
It’s Blinding

It’s Blinding
It’s Blinding
It’s Blinding
Love

I once could see
Oh but now I’m blind
I’m blinded by your love
We got this strange love
I’m blinded by your love
Blind forever, girl

Forever and ever, that’s the plan.
Forever and ever, well, that’s the plan.
Forever and ever, that’s the plan

When I’m reaching through the dark, for your hand
Always find your fingers feathered out like a fan
Oh my dove at peace, at home we get no rest
With lips and thighs, arms and breasts…
It’s Blinding

It’s Blinding
It’s Blinding
It’s Blinding
Love

It’s Blinding
It’s Blinding
It’s Blinding
Still Finding
Love

Alright!

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Bloody Sam
Bloody Sam
Pulled the gun from my hand
beat me black and blue
pulled the trigger too

Through the blindin’ haze
the bullets blaze
all the good men fell
On their way to hell

So shoot the mirror
and kill the lights
we’re all busting outta here, kid
we/re all getting free tonight

If we see the sunrise
then we’ll drink a toast
to the broken-hearted woman
we hurt the most

Bloody Sam
told me who I am
A savage child
clawing back to the wild

In the Mexican sun
the darkness goes
but the scars
scares still show

So shoot the mirror
and kill the lights
we’re all busting outta here, kid
we’re all getting free tonight

If we see the sunrise
then we’ll drink a toast
to the broken-hearted woman
we hurt the most

So shoot the mirror
and kill the lights
we’re all busting outta here, kid
we/re all getting free tonight

If we see the sunrise
then we’ll drink a toast
to the broken-hearted woman
we hurt the most

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music
Track Name: Awoken
At least I’m learning how to give a part of myself to you
At most I’m learning how to live without hiding in plain view
At last I’ve let my sweet revelry break out of this sad shell
At times we’re free and every part of me flies with you, my angel

I’m not broken,
I’ve awoken,
I’m not broken and blue
I’m not broken,
I’m not joking
I’ve awoken with you

At all cost I try to hold on to the strength you’ve given me
At times my chances of love still glances and cries with every memory
But at least I’m learning how to give a part of myself to you
At most I’m learning how to love without breaking my heart in two

I’m not broken,
I’ve awoken,
I’m not broken and blue
I’m not broken,
I’m not choking
I’ve awoken with you

I’m not broken,
I’ve awoken,
I’m not broken and blue
I’m not broken,
I’m not joking
I’ve awoken with you

I’ve awoken with you
I’ve awoken with you
I’ve awoken with you
I’ve awoken with you

© 2008 Imaginary Troubadour Music