Jim Trick - Buying the Field

Jim Trick’s music has a comfortable and appealing style. His voice is in the Lyle Lovett camp, he looks a bit like Elvis Costello, and the arrangements remind me of Bruce Hornsby or Shawn Colvin. I am drawn in by his emotional and handsome voice. The songs have a flying feeling, the lyrics are encouraging, and there is a feeling of love present.

My favorite cut of all is called, “Lucky Enough.” I bet Lyle Lovett would want to record it.
    
“I live in my truck ‘cause I like it that way.
And I throw old bread on the roof of my truck and I can hear the birds when they take it away.”

This is a spare song, just Jim’s voice, an acoustic guitar and a national steel guitar.

These are message songs, that reflect a life of thought and prayer.

The song “Where Were You?” asks,

“Where were you when I was alone and trembling?”

In “Learning to Love,” there is a line,

“I was never alone on my worst day.
I’m still not at home, but I’m on my way.
I’m learning to love, your love.”

“Never Out of Black” has a particularly evocative and sorrowful atmosphere. Maybe a song written for Johnny Cash!

“Remember Tonight” has a smooth jazz rhythm and a theme of conscience.

“The foodless and the shoeless raise their hands,
I tune my guitar. Remember tonight,”

and

“You’re telling me that we should only help our own?
So I ask you who doesn’t belong to Him?”

By now I more than suspect that Jim is a man of faith, but he doesn’t clobber the listener with the message. He hints though, especially in the song, ‘Hold Onto Hope.” He incorporates a line from the old song, “We Are One in the Spirit”:

“...and they’ll know we are Christians by our love...”

He repeats the refrain “by our love” four times, with his whole heart.

I believe him.

You can learn more about speaker, life-coach and songwriter, Jim Trick, at his website: jimtrick.com.