Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)

"Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)"
Single by It's Immaterial
from the album Life's Hard and Then You Die
B-side	"Trains, Boats, Planes"
Released	March 1986 (1986-03)
Length	3:50
Label	Siren
Songwriter(s)	John Campbell Jarvis Whitehead
Producer(s)	Dave Bascombe
It's Immaterial singles chronology
"Ed's Funky Diner" (1985) "Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)" (1986) "Ed's Funky Diner (Friday Night, Saturday Morning)" (1986)
Official Video
"Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)" on YouTube

"Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)" is a song by British band It's Immaterial. Released as a single in March 1986, it spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 18 in April 1986.^[1]

The song has been described by the band as a "British on-the-road song". They initially recorded the song in Milwaukee with Jerry Harrison from the band Talking Heads, but the band was unhappy about Harrison's idea of making the song a country and western pastische and returned to England to record a new version with producer Dave Bascombe. The "Jim's Tune" in the title refers to Jim Lieber, a harmonica-player in a blues band the band saw in a bar in Milwaukee. He was invited to record in the studio and the band was so happy about his playing that they credited him in the title.^[2]

Charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
Ireland (IRMA)[3]	19
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4]	37
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[5]	12
UK Singles (OCC)[1]	18

References

1. "It's Immaterial: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
2. It’s Immaterial on recording their classic single Driving Away From Home Super Deluxe Edition June 26, 2016
3. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – It's Immaterial". Irish Singles Chart.
4. "It's Immaterial – Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
5. "It's Immaterial – Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune)". Singles Top 100.

External links

• "Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune)" on TopPop, 31 May 1986