"I wished for you like children do..."
Maybe the greatest songs made feel destined for as many weddings as funerals and anniversaries of both. "Like Children Do" by husband and wife LA folk duo Jim and Sam and from their brand new album "Good On The Other Side" is that kind of song. Constructed simply against a moving acoustic chord progression and adorned with lovely earnest vocals, the lyrics like penned words from a diary are deeply romantic, gorgeously evocative, relatable, whimsical and ethereally poetic.
"Eleven eleven on the dot / I held my breath and watched the clock / Until it stopped
Birthday candles on the cake / Every penny tossed in a lake / The same wish I would make
I'll never look back and wonder where you came from / I looked for you in every single crowd / Before I saw your face, knew your name / It was written in the stars behind the clouds / I wished for you /Like children do"
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Jim and Sam have enchanted audiences with a series of fan-favorite releases, including 2017’s This Is What’s Left EP and 2018’s Yeah Whatever Young Forever EP. Along the way, they shot After So Many Days, which chronicled a year straight of them playing one show a day for a year. Emerging as a film festival phenomenon, it took home “Best Music Documentary” at Nashville Film Festival 2020, "Audience Award” at Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival 2019, "Special Jury Award" at DeadCenter FF 2020, and was an “Official Selection” at over 30 film festivals including Michael Moore's Traverse City FF 2019.
As the world shut down due to the Global Pandemic, Jim and Sam continued writing. Around the same time, they found out Sam was pregnant. “The songs came from having the time to sit with our thoughts, each other, and the big life change that was about to happen to us,” muses Jim. “We’ve always been driven by playing live and connecting with people face-to-face. These songs were born out of a need to figure out a way to keep the ship sailing when there was no wind in sight.”
Jim and Sam, singer songwriters, indie folk, dream pop, folk, Nashville, Los Angeles, film work, new album "Good On The Other Side", husband and wife duo,
Birthday candles on the cake / Every penny tossed in a lake / The same wish I would make
I'll never look back and wonder where you came from / I looked for you in every single crowd / Before I saw your face, knew your name / It was written in the stars behind the clouds / I wished for you /Like children do"
Personally, "Like Children Do" feels like an instant classic, I thought of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt all at once. For me, Jim and Sam's vocals have a sort of 70's garden rock impression, cast together or apart they feel together and meant to be so.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/1BbVOJwvoyVMfOPdl1Oi2x
https://www.instagram.com/wearejimandsam/
https://www.wearejimandsam.com/
Jim and Sam have enchanted audiences with a series of fan-favorite releases, including 2017’s This Is What’s Left EP and 2018’s Yeah Whatever Young Forever EP. Along the way, they shot After So Many Days, which chronicled a year straight of them playing one show a day for a year. Emerging as a film festival phenomenon, it took home “Best Music Documentary” at Nashville Film Festival 2020, "Audience Award” at Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival 2019, "Special Jury Award" at DeadCenter FF 2020, and was an “Official Selection” at over 30 film festivals including Michael Moore's Traverse City FF 2019.
As the world shut down due to the Global Pandemic, Jim and Sam continued writing. Around the same time, they found out Sam was pregnant. “The songs came from having the time to sit with our thoughts, each other, and the big life change that was about to happen to us,” muses Jim. “We’ve always been driven by playing live and connecting with people face-to-face. These songs were born out of a need to figure out a way to keep the ship sailing when there was no wind in sight.”
Jim and Sam, singer songwriters, indie folk, dream pop, folk, Nashville, Los Angeles, film work, new album "Good On The Other Side", husband and wife duo,
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