"I'd listen to Great Balls Of Fire on repeat for hours at a time." For Jim Jones, rock'n'roll is way more than just music, it's something other-worldly, something sacred

Jim Jones outside the Hammersmith Apollo.

Back in May 2024, rock’n’soul evangelist Jim Jones, ex-Thee Hypnotics vocalist, titular ringmaster of first a Revue, then a Righteous Mind, and now, emblematic of his ever-expanding reputation, Jim Jones All Stars, was touring Europe in support of the reanimated, Happiness Bastards-era Black Crowes.

Birds of a distinctly corvine feather are wont to flock together, and so it was that, between each fulfilling their particular stint of tearing-up-the-stage duty, Crowes vocalist Chris Robinson and Jones fell into discussing future plans. JJ revealed that a new album was on the All Stars’ immediate horizon, to which Robinson replied: “Why don’t you put it out on my label?”