This is a spe­cial video for sure. Jim Guthrie hasn’t been play­ing much lately (in fact, I think I caught his last solo show way back in 2005), so when it was announced that he would be per­form­ing at the El Mocambo a few weeks back I got very excited. Jim has been one of my favourite musi­cians for a long time after I dis­cov­ered him through his con­nec­tions with my other favourite band the Con­stan­tines (they both used to share a label, the aptly named Three Gut Records). His last album, 2003’s Now, More Than Ever is a mas­ter­piece – 10 per­fect songs. Luck­ily for those of you who haven’t heard it, it’s being reis­sued very soon (on vinyl!), so please, do your­self a favour and get it. This song pre­sented here is “So Small” from that same album.

PS: My web­site is named after Jim’s sec­ond album (another great record) Morn­ing Noon Night.

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