You Are All My People [Digipak] by I'm Not Jim

Personnel: Danny McGough (organ). Audio Mixer: Ben Arons. Great novelists are not frequently great songwriters, and vice versa; not many people read Bob Dylan's Tarantula for any reason beyond curiosity, and anyone who has heard the songs Thomas McGuane co-wrote with Warren Zevon knows they don't rank high in either man's pantheon. So fans of novelist Jonathan Lethem and singer/songwriter Walter Salas-Humara had good reason to be wary when the two teamed up with producers and multi-instrumentalists Phil Hernandez and Chris Maxwell to form a new musical project, I'm Not Jim. Thankfully, Lethem and Salas-Humara have turned out to be a strong and imaginative songwriting team, and I'm Not Jim's debut album, You Are All My People, is clever, well-crafted pop music that represents a notable departure from Salas-Humara's work with the Silos. Salas-Humara sounds looser, edgier, and more daring on these songs than he does with his own material, and while with Lethem at his side these tunes are wordier than the av...