Released on February 17th, 2023; That... is my second solo album. With encouragement from modern industry pros, That... contains less than half the number of songs that were on my first effort. The industry has changed quite a bit since I first started in music. Today's listener has many distractions and little time to take in much of anything... 18 or 19 tracks at once is too much, overwhelming at ...
"The Nickel Song" written by Melanie Sofka, seemed perfect for poking election year fun at politics at large. You don't have to be on one side or the other to see what a circus it has become. A song about gambling on how we're all going to vote, contribute, play the game... but nobody is really trying to solve the problems either. Another tongue in cheek look at where this ...
Originally released in 2015 as This..., the original release did not include six cover songs that the 2022 re-release does, making This... AGAIN? an 18 song tour de force of a debut solo album. The original first track "Killed By The Cure" features Wes Sutherland on blues harp, and is about Jimmy having survived many near death experiences. The sprawling recording began in 2013, After The Occupy Wall Street movement ...
By Jimmy Arnold - October 15, 2024
Despite the delay getting it to the streaming services, "& The Other" was released to the the distributor on June 7th, 2024 and was finally made available last week. It sums up a lifetime of observation of the Ecological state of planet Earth, It's politics and religion. I almost called the album "Opiate of the Masses", and I toyed with the idea of sub-titling it "Things We Believe". At any rate, ...
By Jimmy Arnold
Thieving Dogz was originally named Hand Over Fist, before being informed that a Black Sabbath cover band (Hanover Fist) had made it all but impossible for any band to legally hold a similar name, and they were prepared to defend their trademark status. The first album was quickly pulled from the marketplace and with a new name (inspired by something said by my brother Richard Arnold) and a new logo, ...
By Jimmy Arnold
The first recording I was on was as a boy of 7. My Mother and my two brothers, Terrie and Jerry DelMontier sang A' Capella Gospel from 1968 - 1972; and in June of 1970 we were recorded by sound engineer Phil Dowdy in the original sanctuary of Rock Church at 640 Kempsville Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, which is now a gymnasium for their school. It was titled "The Arnold ...