Jim Garrett Jim & Pat Garrett Show CD - Import

Jim and Pat Garrett Show began some years ago as a two-man act in a bar in Stockholm. The year after, the two brothers met Daddy Garrett during a wet night in the city’s club life and performed a couple of shows together. Involving Joe Garrett later the same year and thus completing the band, lead to the recordings and release of their debut album in December 2007. Shortly after, the music video and single ”This Is Not What You’d Expect” were released and Swedish Television featured another of the songs from the album, ”I Won’t Kill No More”.The music is mainly a mixture of alternative acoustic pop and various traditional folk, with often highly political lyrics as well as traditional poetry. Influences such as Simon and Garfunkel, David Bowie, REM, The Beatles and many more are often referred to, never to neglect the formidable work of anonymous folk musicians and poets that live on through the treasure of traditional songs we know by heart and carry on by our love for music. We would like to highlight our respect to the great folk lore composers of our country, Sweden:Carl-Mikael Bellman, Esaias Tegnér, Evert Taube, Cornelius Vreeswijk, Alf Hambe, Georg Riedel and many moreand also our sincerest respect to all the great, influential musicians from all over the world who keep composing and performing the greatest and most impacting culture we know, music. Through our songs the world shall find the strength to live on, keep hoping and striving for a better, more honest and rightful society.So, why the name? To be honest there is no simple explanation, only a series of stories sprung from a deep fascination and interest for the American Western, for the Swedish emigration in late 19th century, for the fashions of the time and especially the myth surrounding the death of one Henry McCarthy, or as we know him, William H Bonney, aka Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett was to be the influence to what later became ”Jim and Pat Garrett” but as we wanted to tell our listeners just a little bit more about us, we concluded the band name with adding ”Show” to its tail. And so it came that we named ourselves after the renowned killer of an infamous Western legend and added an imaginary brother to the show. In accordance with our love and respect for the fashion and culture surrounding the time Mr Garrett was an active sheriff, we wear our costumes proudly as we enter stage to perform our songs in our preferred mixture between now and then.