Jim Bob

English musician and author James Robert Morrison, better known as Jim Bob, first made the public's acquaintance in the early 1990s as the frontman for inventive and divisive dance-punk/Brit-poppers Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. After the band called it quits in 1998, he began releasing solo albums that largely dispensed with the kinetic second wave punk attack of CUSM and relied more on his gifts for pairing engaging melodies with wry lyricism. In 2004 he released an autobiography and in 2010 he published his first fiction novel. He continued to focus on writing for the...