James Kinne: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Upright and 5 String Bass, Drums and Percussion, Vocals, Piano & Keyboards, Sampling & Looping, recording & production, a little Mandolin & Banjo.
Influences
People:
Mom, Geoff Turner, Jeff Holt, Grey Brewster, others in my past.
Musicians:
The Police, toad, Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Pink Floyd, Athenaeum, FJB, SRV, Queen, Herb Alexander, Many others...
James Kinne is a multi-instrumentalist, singer songwriter based in central VT. He has played in the bands Angry Salad, Chasing Gray, and Nothing About Grover.
He was the founding member / songwriter of the band Chasing Gray, which won Spin Magazine's "Best Unsigned Band of 1998" award in the alternative category. He was also voted top 5 in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's "Troubador Songwrtier" competition in 2002.
He has toured with the likes of: Live, The Verve Pipe, Counting Crows, The Samples, Violent Femmes, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Run DMC, The Barenaked Ladies, Jonatha Brooke, Soul Coughing, Guster, 10,000 Maniacs, and They Might Be Giants, among others.
Most recently, James can be found behind the console of his studio "Stillwater" located in the heart of Vermont. He also does custom music design for weddings and plays in various other groups around the state.
James plays Taylor Guitars and uses Knucklehead Strings exclusively.
James, I was just on your Jameskinne.com website. It looks AWESOME. It looks like a lot of hard work has been put into it. Good job. I was talking to a friend about the Taylor T5 which led me to you. He had never seen one before. GO Taylor. I'm always checking out what you are doing. I'm eager to here the new solo album, and the stuff with you and your wife. I hope all is well, Did you ever get that Mckee video I sent ya? Keep up the good work!!
I to wanted to thank you for helping make an amazing show possible. We made Geoff proud for sure. Looking forward to the spring. i will be in touch about possible studio time. you rock!!
James. Thanks for being a part of another wonderful Geoff Turner benefit. It was awesome. I really had a great time getting on stage with you. Thanks for the invite. Maybe next time I'll know the song we are going to do. Still fun. Send my your e-mail. I've got some pictures of the show you'd probably like to see. Oh, yeah. I have 4-between and 5-fleeting cd's of yours you left at the show. I sold them on ebay today for $100 a piece. Thanks I needed the money... We made Geoff proud, Rock on!!!
I really wish I could be there this weekend for the benfit at the Autumn. I hope it is great and I wish you well. Hope to see you in the spring for our 2nd show here in Charleston!
HEY How are you? Where is your wife? Tell her to check her Myspace email since I wrote her something that she should read! I hope you guys are well and not too COLD yet =) We are getting ready for Halloween, Kyla is going to be a blue carebear, I will sent you guys pictures =) !!
Cmon man, this music kicks ass, get rich so I can live in your pool house. It could be just like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air except no minorities and a lot more alcoholism! Fun for the whole family!
There's this photo album in my living room of family pictures from the last 100 years or whatever. I was looking through it and stumbled upon this picture of you playing the piano in my living room, donning this absurd ponytail. You should rock that again man, you don't get taken seriously as an artist without a completely asinine physical attribute. I don't know when the picture was taken, suffice to say it wasn't yesterday.
