B'Z Best Treasure CD - Import

' Frank Tedesso, The ReaderMcCandless draws on his personal experiences in Montana, Illinois and Ireland, whether real or partly imagined. Who said history has to be accurate anyway? If you say, 'I went to the store to buy a loaf of bread', what good is that? But if you say, 'I went to Blarney Castle to pick some shamrocks and was hit on the head with a croquet mallet and kidnapped by The Royal Family', now you've got something! In other words, Jim is a big bullshitter. But then, so is the 2000 Year Old Man! So, I ask you!who cares?His music has been recorded by Kat Eggleston, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Jimmy Moore, Sean Keane, Arty McGlynn, Nollaig Casey, Bell & Shore, Susan Shore & Don Stiernberg, Dan Bern, and Body Parts; he has worked with Julianne Macarus, John Williams, Hayes & Cahill, Larry Nugent, Gan Ainm, Liz Carroll, Buddy Mondlock, Frank Tedesso, Jano, Andrew Calhoun, Victor Sanders, Brian Anderson, Jim Craig and Tom Dundee.

Jim has also performed with P.J. Hayes, Greg Brown, Joan Baez, Odetta, Chris Smither, Sean O'Driscoll, Claudia Schmidt, John Fahey, Tim O'Brien, Jim Post, Natalie McMaster and Tom Paxton. 'A few years ago, a friend sent me a tape she had recorded off the radio in Wisconsin that included a song called 'Faultline', a song of disasters from the Titanic to the nuke meltdown, all considered impossible. After I tracked it down, James McCandless' first album became one of my year's favorites.