Jim Livermore: Home

"The idea for my first CD, Coming Home, has been rattling around in my head for a long time. I connect with all these songs, and I see them as diamonds in the rough - beautiful, but with lots in them still to be uncovered.

Johnny Horton's I'm Coming Home is a perfect example. Originally recorded in the late 1950s, it had that constrained feel of a lot of music that, at the time, couldn't find its home in country or rock and roll. My recording still has it in that grey zone that we now call Americana or alt-country, but we tried to loosen it up and lengthen it, and give it a sonic quality it couldn't have had in that era. Lyrically, it couldn't be more perfect, and my hope is that it all all the other songs on the album will again see the light of day they deserve." - Jim