Bad Timing

A musing on popular standards and an all-instrumental down mainstreet, USA. Come for the history lesson, stay for the coming of age statement! Jim's pop epic is a personal message, personally from Jim to you.

Jim O’Rourke’s 1997 album Bad Timing turns his obsessions with Americana into a tangle of deep reverence and exuberant skepticism.

Released in 1997, Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing is the first in a trilogy of solo releases to be named after films by British director Nicolas Roeg.

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