‘Songs about as sharpened as The Butcher’s Knife.’ Lyric from the title track of the first full length Naming James album, says it all. The singer/ songwriter/string breaker offers up a diverse collection of finely crafted songs that are able to stand alone in originality and imagination, as well as having them been tried and tested on stages around South Africa to audiences as varied as the country itself.
Naming James is a regular on the Johannesburg music scene and the debut album was born from numerous gigs at clubs, cafe’s, theatres, bars, festivals, braai’s, laundromats, studios, wendy houses, barbershops and toll gates. Response to seeing Naming James live, is always equally filled with as much joy, vigour and honesty as every show is actually performed with. A consummate performer who can hold his own on any stage and entertain to all audiences, Naming James is a must for any musical line-up…