Jim Stärk is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 band formed in 2000. While it is known for melodic, at times melancholy, guitar based songs influenced by folk musicians like Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt

John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...

 and Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Jim Stärk has a distinct musical profile. The band's songs, some of which have attained hit

Hit parade

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 status, are marked by easily recognizable musical lines, yet both its roots and lyrics are somewhat eclectic.

Former members

• Simen Mæhlum (vocals, percussion)
• Asbjørn Ribe (vocals, keyboard)
• Tom Rudi Torjussen (vocals and percussion)

Albums

• • Ten Songs And Hey Hey (2002)
  • No Time Wasted (2003)
  • Morning Songs (2004)
  • Jim Stärk (2005)
  • Turn Around and Look (2006)
  • Rainy Love Songs (2011)

Singles

• • You're The One That I Want with Claudia Scott (2003)
  • It's All Right (2006)
  • Ran Out of Luck (2006)
  • True Story (2011)

Trivia

The band's name alludes to the character Jim Stark portrayed by James Dean

James Dean

James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...

 in the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments...

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External links

• Official site including tracks from the latest record