James McCartney

James Louis McCartney is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is the only son of songwriter and former Beatle Paul McCartney. McCartney has released two EPs and two albums. His most recent, The Blackberry Train, was released on 6 May 2016.

About James McCartney in brief

Summary James McCartneyJames Louis McCartney is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is the only son of songwriter and former Beatle Paul McCartney. He has contributed to solo albums by his parents, including Flaming Pie and Driving Rain by Paul McCartney and Wide Prairie by Linda McCartney. McCartney has released two EPs and two albums. His most recent, The Blackberry Train, was released on 6 May 2016. He was named after both his paternal grandfather Jim McCartney and his father, whose full name is James Paul McCartney, as well as Linda’s late mother, Louise Sara Eastman. He began playing music when his father gave him a Fender Stratocaster at age nine. In 1993, at age 16, while surfing with friends, he was swept out to sea.

He made his US performing debut with his own original solo material on 14 November 2009 at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center, during the Fourth Annual David Lynch Weekend for World Peace and Meditation in Fairfield, Iowa. He performed under the pseudonym Light. In 2004 he again left the McCartney family home and began living in a flat in Brighton, where he waited tables while he attended college and worked on his music. In 2005, he accompanied Paul during his ‘US’ Tour. Around 2008, he began working with David Kahne, his father and a number of other musicians on recording his own music. The words on Available Light refer to spirituality, love, family, trying to clean out one’s life, and many other things.