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January 31st, 2006 Nightflying Magazine - Review by Doug Treadway

Jim Wilson reminds me a lot of Todd Snider, not that he sounds like him, but that they share a similar sensibility and verve, although Wilson leans more toward a hillbilly perspective. One song that is definitely different, not only from Todd Snider but also from anything else on Jim Wilsons latest release, is the excellent Somebody Elses Dream. I might go so far as to say this song is worth the price of the album. A neat little side note is that Jims son Jon did the clever cover art. The record is available at CDBaby.com November 21st, 2005

Review by William Ruhlmann - Allmusic.com

Jim Wilson is a country singer/songwriter based in Memphis, TN, who turns up frequently at the renowned songwriters' watering hole the Bluebird Caf in Nashville. On his second album, released by the independent label Ringo Records of Memphis, he sounds like a fairly typical aspiring country singer whose compositions deserve consideration in Nashville just as much as he himself does as a potential star. One often thinks of independent labels as a haven for the exotic and marginal, but Wilson is aiming right down the middle of the highway as far as contemporary country is concerned. A good example of his approach is "My Neighborhood," which is strikingly similar musically to Montgomery Gentry's 2002 country hit "My Town," even if it sounds like a deliberately constructed answer record. The honky tonk duo celebrated the town they observed, but Wilson decries the deterioration and loss of community in the neighborhood he describes. Those are big issues to a singer who begins the album with "Southern Town," which depicts a young man's wanderings and failures, but concludes, "Now I got kids of my own and we're on solid ground/We all live in a Southern town." The album's other songs also concern working-class lives, aspirations and disappointments, and the vagaries of love, and Wilson sets them to familiar country-rock arrangements with lots of twangy guitar work courtesy of producer Steve Wenger. There is little of the quirkiness and particularity one expects of small-label singer/songwriters, but plenty of major-label homogeneity, suggesting that Wilson would make a good pickup for a Nashville company that could put enough promotional muscle behind him to enable him to compete with Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, and the rest of the contemporary country elite.

November 20th, 2005 "Discovering an artist like Jim Wilson is what makes this business of music so rewarding. Listening to the grade-A production of Jim's soulful songs on "This Old House" makes me long for how good country radio could be if they were less concerned with Los Angeles and New York and a little more interested in what living a real life entails."

--Americana Tonight October 29th, 2005 Jim Wilson on the GRAMMY voting ballot! Jim's 'This Old House' has been included in the voting list for the Grammys in two categories: Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.