Jim Pellinger's latest single, New Face On The World, started taking shape on the way home from the birth of his daughter. The sun was just coming up over the Crosstown freeway and in his eyes and the effects of becoming a parent for the first time was dawning on him like the new day. Since then it has become a staple of his live set. A song about new life, hope, and faith in the future.

Jim Pellinger has performed at colleges, clubs, coffeehouses, and festivals in the US and Central America. He's played on small stages and large stages and sometimes no stage at all, with bands but most often solo, armed with just an acoustic guitar, a voice, and a lot of great songs. Along the way he’s performed on New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins pregame shows, and even got a song in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

But in these days of the Covid pandemic performing live in front of an audience just isn't an option. Many have turned to the internet to deliver live music to their audience. In March of 2020 Jim launched his weekly live stream, dubbed "Jim Pellinger's Quarantine Cafe". JPQC streamed Fridays at 8pm Central time on Jim's Facebook page, and simulstreamed on his website's Quarantine Cafe page. "The response has been very positive", says Jim, "it's a lot of fun, and the commute could not be easier."

Pellinger’s music charts a course set by his influences, the Beatles, first and foremost. But as a reviewer of his “Knives & Bleeding” EP noted, “His sound and method are that of, say, Tom Petty or maybe Elvis Costello albeit he sounds like neither.” Another reviewer of Jim’s first release, the cassette-only “All Dressed Up And All Stressed Out” heard “strains of John Hiatt, Squeeze, R.E.M., and a little bit of Simon and Garfunkel within Jim’s songs”.

A fiercely dedicated do-it-yourselfer, Jim records and releases albums, EPs, and singles on his own label, Door To Door Music. He designs the cover art, shoots and edits the videos, builds the website, and books the shows. Said Bill Snyder of the music magazine The Squealer: "If you still believe that the virtues of hard work are more important than money (and even if you still need to be convinced) the proof is on the tape."