Mute Elephant Music Presents:
Jim Bob
7:00
14+
20 adv
As singer with Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Jim Bob had 14 top 40 singles, 4 top ten albums (including a number one), sold over a million records, toured the world and headlined Glastonbury. In 2007, ten years after initially splitting, Carter USM reformed for a series of huge sold out shows until they called it a day again in 2014.
Outside of Carter Jim Bob has had a long and varied solo music career. He has released ten solo albums and written songs for Ian Dury and for the 2006 Barbican production of Mark Ravenhill’s ’Dick Whittington & His Cat’. In August 2010 Jim Bob made his Edinburgh Fringe debut in the Ward and White musical ‘Gutted’.
Jim Bob’s autobiography ‘Goodnight Jim Bob – On The Road With Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine’ (Cherry Red Books) was released to critical acclaim in 2004. The sequel ‘Jim Bob from Carter’ (Cherry Red Books) followed in 2019 to tons more praise. Jim Bob (AKA J.B. Morrison) has written six novels – his fifth and six novels, ‘A Godawful Small Affair’/b/w ‘Harvey King Unboxes His Family’ (Cherry Red Books) were published together in March 2020.
Jim Bob’s album 'Pop Up Jim Bob' (Cherry Red Records) reached number 26 in the UK Album chart in 2020 and was followed in the same top forty by the album 'Who Do We Hate Today'.
The double album anthology 'THE ESSENTIAL JIM BOB' came out in November 2022.