Jim Bob
English musician and author James Robert Morrison, better known as Jim Bob, first made the public's acquaintance in the early 1990s as the frontman for inventive and divisive dance-punk/Brit-poppers Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. After the band called it quits in 1998, he began releasing solo albums that largely dispensed with the kinetic second wave punk attack of CUSM and relied more on his gifts for pairing engaging melodies with wry lyricism. In 2004 he released an autobiography and in 2010 he published his first fiction novel. He continued to focus on writing for the next several years but returned to music in 2020 with the single "2020 WTF!"
Jim Bob co-founded Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine with guitarist Les Carter (aka Fruitbat) in 1987; the pair had previously played together in the jangle-pop group Jamie Wednesday, whose amalgam of punk, power pop, and art-rock was infused with satiric lyrics and the samples and sequenced drum patterns of the emerging club/dance scene, which helped to distinguish them from their Brit-pop contemporaries. The broke into the mainstream in the early '90s with the albums 30 Something and 1992: The Love Album, both of which went gold. By the time the group disbanded in 1998, CUSM had issued six full-length LPs and landed a dozen U.K. Top 40 singles, selling over a million records.
Jim Bob released his debut solo album, Jim's Super Stereoworld, in 2001, followed closely by JR, the latter of which was issued under his full name. He continued to put out solo material like Goodnight Jim Bob (2003), A Humpty Dumpty Thing (2007), What I Think About When I Think About You (2013) under the Super Stereoworld, Jim Bob, and James Robert Morrison monikers throughout the next two decades. In 2004 he published a memoir, Goodnight Jim Bob – On the Road with Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine; his second autobiography, Jim Bob from Carter, followed in 2019. He began releasing books of fiction in 2010 with Storage Stories. In early 2020, Jim Bob released the single "WTF 2020!, his first new music in nearly a decade, with the album Pop Up Jim Bob following a few months later. Buoyed by the success of the album, which hit the U.K. album charts upon release, he returned to the studio with the Hoodrats to record more material. The follow-up, Who Do We Hate Today, was issued in mid-2021.
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