Jim Roll is not only a literate singer-songwriter, he's plainly an expert networker. His previous collaboration with producer Walter Salas-Humara lent Roll's songs the sound of Salas-Humara's band, the Silos. Here he enlists a couple...more.

An absolutely joyous listen. I mean the subject matter ranges from Denis Johnson's lyrical effort "Desperado in the Parking Lot" a dark murderous love song dressed in waves resembling digital monks and banjo, to the rollicking pop of Roll's...more.

Jim Roll slid through the 1990s a virtual secret to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and his hometown, Chicago, a singer-songwriter who once gave up the biz to get into social work. But a chance meeting with Walter Salas-Humara (the Silos...more.

This one really caught me by surprise. A great great album that alternates between folk/roots-influenced pop and literate contemporary grooves. In fact the songs cover so much territory musically that the experience is like listening to 40 minutes of...more.

This is a beautiful, strange and diverse collection of surreal yet familiar songs. Jim Roll is a master of the sparse loveletter in musical form - often conjuring the essence of early Tom Petty, Neil Young, and perhaps a male Lucinda Williams...more.