Shotgun Jimmie returns to Lethbridge with new Joel Plaskett produced CD

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Toronto born, Brandon, Manitoba based musician Jim Kilpatrick best known as Shotgun Jimmie always has an interesting story to tell in our “annual conversation.”
 He winds up a cross Canadian tour in support of his latest  “Field Of Trampolines,” at the Owl Acoustic Lounge, June 27.Shotgun Jimmie returns to Lethbridge with his band, June 27. Photo by Richard Amery
The new CD sounds like a new Joel Plaskett CD, which is not surprising as Plaskett produced it.
“I’ll take that as a compliment. He is all over it. He sings on it and he plays guitar on it,” said Kilpatrick, who just returned from a week visiting his partner in Iceland where she is doing an eight week art residency.
“It was so great. She had applied for that before I recorded this album, so I booked an extra eight days to go and visit here there and grab a cheaper flight over there, well cheaper than flying there from Brandon,” he said, noting he went to Iceland after  doing the east coast swing in support of the CD.


“It’s so beautiful there and most people speak English there which is not surprising because tourism is so important there. I drove all around the island. I’d love to go back and play,” he continued, on the road  to Sault Sté Marie. I was just thinking of Joel Plaskett because he has a lyric about hitting on a waitress in Sault Sté Marie. I was going to text him about it,” he said.


 He is pleased with how the CD turned out.
“We recorded it in a record breaking four days, which is different than  his usual recording process.
“That’s rock and roll. There isn’t a lot of time to second guess anything,” he said adding he hadn’t intended for the CD to sound like Plaskett.
“The way we intended it was to just record a hi fi Shotgun Jimmie album,” he said, adding he feels blessed to have so many talented friends like Plaskett.
“He’s an amazing friend. The fact he believes in the music is great,” he said.
“We took two days to track it and another two to mix and master it,” he said.

 Shotgun Jimmie also appears on The Weakerthans’ John K Samson’s new Cd.
“I’m playing own his album. I really feel blessed know some really cool  people,” he said.
 Winnipeg band Human Music will be backing him on the Western Canadian part of the tour including at their Lethbridge show, which will be the last show of the tour.

 
“Usually when I play Lethbridge, I’m doing my one person band. So what I’m looking forward the most is bringing my A game with the full band. And it’s the last day of the tour so we’re going to really swing hard,” he said .
“We’ll blast through the CD and then play  a few of the hits from my last few records,” he said.

“ And we’re playing with Open Channels who we always play with in Lethbridge. They’re good friends of mine going back to 2001 or 2004. Jeff from Open Channels has an old picture of me from when we played together in 2005 or so and it’s hilarious because I look like a teenager. Well it was 12 years ago,” he laughed.


While he has played with Human Music’s bassist and drummer quite a lot, it has been a while since he brought the full band to Lethbridge.
“ I haven’t played the Slice or Owl with them, but I played Freshfest at the university a few years ago and  I played with all of them then,” he said.
“I’d never played with the guitarist before, but I’m playing with him because he plays with the other guys,” he said.
“ Geographically, they’re the closest musical friends I have because they’re in Winnipeg and I’m in Brandon,”  said Kilpatrick, who is attending art school in Brandon for two more years in between recording albums and touring.
He will be taking his fifth tour of Europe in August.

— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 June 2016 09:58 )