Jimbo Pap Set To Drop Tasty ‘It Can Always Get Worse’
SoCal alt-country outfit Jimbo Pap will drop their debut album, It Can Always Get Worse, September 13, via Fiesta Red Records.
Initially, the album began as the solo project of Jim Bowers, who, after meeting Bo Brannen, invited Brannen to play dobro at the first recording session. Prior to the second session, the two were at a party, where they met singer-pianist Pap Shirock, who they invited to the studio. Before long, the threesome became Jimbo Pap, a name formed by fusing together Jim Bowers, Bo Brannen, and Pap Shirock.
To give the recording a richer sound, Kip Boardman (bass) and Kaitlin Wolfberg (fiddle) joined them in the studio and at live shows.
Explaining the album’s cover photo, depicting Bowers’ great-grandmother pushing a shopping cart, Bowers says, “It’s a way for us to express gratitude. We get used to life’s setbacks; in fact we’ve come to expect them. We carry on, knowing that it could be so much worse.”
The album’s title came courtesy of Pap Shirock, who supplied the title after seeing the cover art.
