Born and raised in Edinburgh, Jim learned the Highland pipes as a child and in his early teens picked up the guitar and taught himself to play. Influenced by delta blues players, he developed his own style of playing with emphasis on slide and bottle-neck guitar. To hear Jims music for the first time is to hear a style of music like no other. Maybe, however, the real point is not whether Jim Hunter and His Band are folk, or folk-rock, or traditional, or modern, but that they are vigorous, fresh and different. The album is a compilation made up from two cassettes that Jim released on his own behalf in 1988 and 1989, to which two new tracks have been added.