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Jim Neversink Born Michael James Whitehead 16 June 1969 In Durban Is A South African Musician Singer And Songwriter. He Was The Co-Founder And Lead Guitarist Of "Famous Curtain Trick" A Country/pop/rock Band Which Rose To Mainstream Popularity In South Africa In The 1990s And Was Nominated For A SAMA Award.
He Is However Best Known As A Solo Artist Who Performs With Changing Line-Ups. As Such He Has Released Two Albums To Critical Acclaim Both Have Been Included In Best-Album Lists In South African Magazines As Well As In Billboard Magazine.
His Most Notable Instrument Is The Guitar Including A Home-Built Lap Steel Guitar. His Musical Style Spans Over Indie Rock Country Americana And Punk. In 2001 Neversink Moved To Johannesburg And Began Using The Artists´ Name Jim Neversink. Having Suffered A Nervous Breakdown He Chose The Name As An Allusion To Overcoming Psychological Trauma. The Crisis Was Triggered By Claustrophobia When He Was Being Locked In A Toilet Cabin In A Prison Where He Worked As A Music Teacher An Underlying Factor Seems To Have Been His Adopted Father’s Death By Suicide In 1994 An Incidence Which Features Directly And Indirectly In The Lyrics Of His Epnoymous Debut Album. Neversink's Debut Album Was Produced By Matthew Fink. Recorded Partly Under Primitive Circumstances In Neversink´s Bedroom It Was Nominated “Album Of The Year” By The Star Pronouncing It "a Masterpiece That Will No Doubt Stand The Test Of Time" Beeld Included It In Its "Top-Ten Albums" List. Channel24.Co.Za Which Likewise Referred To The Album As A "South African Masterpiece" Awarded It Five Stars Out Of Five Remarking That "Neversink And Matthew Fink Have Produced A Benchmark Album Seemingly Out Of Nowhere." At The Turn Of The Decade Beeld Included It In A List South African Albums Of The Decade. Shakey Is Good
A Second Album Likewise Earned Critics' Acclaim It Came In As No 2 On The Times’ International "Top 20 Albums" Of 2008 Billboard Magazine's South African Correspondent Placed It As No 6 On Her International List Of "2008 Billboard Critics Top 10s" Isolation.Tv Placed It As No 1 On Their Top-10 "South African Albums Of The Year" And Both The Times And Mail & Guardian Included It In Their Listings Of "albums Of The Decade". Channel24.Co.Za Awarded It Five Out Of Five Stars. Shortly After The Launch Of Shakey Is Good Neversink Began To Perform With Loandi Boersma Bass And Kevin O´Grady Drums And Various Guest Performers. With This Line-Up And Guest Performances By Rian Malan Lani Pieters And Timon Wapenaar A New Album Skinny Girls Are Trouble Will Appear In 2010.
Skinny Girls Are Trouble Is Produced By Richard Lloyd Former Member Of The New Wave/punk Rock Band Television. Lloyd Supervised The Recordings In Johannesburg In March 2009 And Performed Live With Neversink Post-Production Was Carried Out At Lloyd's Studio In New York. The Album Was Engineered Mixed And Mastered By Peter Pearlson. read less