Jesper Deleuran

Bio:

.. I have made my living as a cartoonist/illustrator for more than 30 years, and I intend to show some of my artwork here. I have just joined the space 3. december, and things take time. But you can allready see some of my drawings on the site, and in my pics folders.
You can see my website<> or by clicking here: www.jesperdeleuran.dk...
The text is in danish, but I guess the drawings can be seen and understood everywhere. If you are a member of MySpace you can see some of my drawings in my pics folders. More will come as I get the time.
You can also see some 100 drawings on the german website toonpool. It is a kind of MySpace for cartoonists. The text is in english there. Check this adress: www.toonpool.com....

The music I will upload here, is home recordings made on a four track digital recorder, where I play a couple of instruments and sing harmony with myself. So called sandwichrecordings. Nothing fancy.

I have recently bought a guitjo, a 6-string banjo and have just uploaded a recording, Stone's Rag to the player above.

Also the first recording where I play the banjo, Tom Dooley, in a different version, than that of the Kingston Trio, which I can't stand to listen to today.
This version I have heard with Doc Watson and David Holt.
No comparison though :-)

If you click on the EazyFolk link here below, you can hear many more tunes. Among others three bluegrass tunes I recorded 25 years ago on a 4-track cassette recorder, and have recently rediscovered them, and digitized them. Hope you can stand to listen to them. I sing harmonies and play guitars, banjo and mandolin.

And you can hear Arkansas Traveller with the original lyrics from the first version in 1850. This is my first attempt to record anything with the fiddle, and I wouldn't have dared to do it, if I couldn't hide a bit behind the guitar and mandolin. I guess It could have been better, if I had done retakes 20 times or more, but I settled on first take on all four tracks. After all it is old-time music.
Another one is Don’t Try It For It Can’t Be Done. I have it from an old 78' record from the 20's, with the late, great Riley Puckett. And more than 20 other tunes. Among them is Old Joe Clark on which I play mountain dulcimer and guitar, and Whiskey Before Christmas played on mandolin, autoharp and guitar
Another fun song is It' Ain't Gonna Rain No More. This is from another old record with Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers. The lyrics is different in this version though. I have found them on a website with tons of lyrics for old traditional songs. This too has Riley Puckett on guitar and vox.
I have also put up some instrumentals played on guitjo and guitar.

I recently have about 30 tunes on eZfolk. Some of them are the same as the tunes you find here.Some are not.


I have untill recently been a member of the dansih old-time band BIG HUNGRY JOE. Click on the icon here below and see the band's profile and listen to the lovely music. It's the first one to the left in the friends section.
Or buy our debut CD. It is available on CD Baby and iTunes. Click here!, and it is released in Denmark as well.

Vi kan fortælle vores danske venner, at den nu også kan købes i Danmark i alle pladeforretninger. Såvel off- som online. Og den kan downloades direkte fra nettet forskellige steder. F.eks. fra ..iTunes. KLIK HER!

Member Since:

December 03, 2007

Members:

Me, myself and I
I play guitar, mandolin and sing. In my spare time I fool around with autoharp, 5-string banjo, 6-string banjo, tenor guitar, fiddle, piano and mountain dulcimer, and run the risk of never becoming very good on any of them. But I'll have great fun while I'm learning.
I have also been a proud member of the danish old time band Big Hungry Joe.
Take a look at the band's MySpace profile by clicking on the first icon in the Friend Space here below or just click here.

If you want to hear more of my own recordings, you can hear about 30 of them here on: EazyFolk including the ones you can hear on this site. And 4 tracks I made 25 years ago on a 4 track Fostex tape recorder.
And you can see loads of videos on my YouTube channel.
These days I spend most of the time playing with my friend Tobias Enevoldsen in our duo, The Deleuran Enevoldsen Duo.
You can also see some videos with the duo on YouTube.

Below you can see some of my drawings and a couple of photos.
More pictures, videos and music will be added as time comes.

Influences:

When you get to my age, there are too many to mention, but I'll give it a try anyway:

Musicians: Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, David Grisman, Ry Cooder, Foghorn Stringband, Boiled Buzzards, The Improbabillies, Dr. John, James Taylor, Taj Mahal, Tom Waits, Beatles, B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, J.J. Cale, Ben Webster, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Pete and Mike Seeger, Ray Charles, Georgie Fame, Django Reinhardt, J.S. Bach, Händel, Vivaldi, Erik Satie, Mozart, Joe Pass, Louis Jordan, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Thelonious Monk, Chet Atkins, Stuff Smith, Slim Gaillard, Sonnyboy Williamson etc. etc .


Writers: Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Céline, Dan Turell, Raymond Carver, John Fante, H.C. Andersen, Gustav Wied, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Graham Green etc. etc.


Comic artists: Robert Crumb, Carl Barks, Hergé, Charles M. Schulz, E.C. Segar, Billy deBeck, Storm P. and my brother Claus Deleuran, who died much too young.


Moviemakers: Werner Herzog, John Cassavetes, Charles Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Jaques Tati, Federico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Luis Bunuel, John Ford, Wim Wenders, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Marx Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Coen brothers, early Disney, Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, Marx Brothers etc. etc.


Painters: My father Otto Deleuran, and his good friend Aksel Jensen. May they rest in peace. René Magritte is also one. And Sowa. And there are many more. Too numerous to mention.
And on and on and on it goes. More to come someday. Perhaps.

Sounds Like:

A singing cartoonist.

Record Label:

Unsigned