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Jeffrey Frederick
Americana / Roots Music / Country

Frederick Productions/Red Newt Records Profile



Portland, Silver City/Dayton, Vermont, Boston, Oregon
United States

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Member Since8/15/2006
Band WebsiteJEFFREYFREDERICK.COM
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Jeff and his band literally closing out Portland's fabled La Bamba nightclub back in the day

Jeffrey Frederick & Les Clams: Saturday Night

Here's the Freak Mountain Ramblers doing one of the tunes from St. Jeffrey's Day

Chicken, by Jeffrey Frederick

Check this out, Hank McGregor, from Scotland, and the Cyberjam Kid from Canada, doing Jeff's Robbin Banks

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Sounds LikeFreak Mountain Ramblers (they all played in his bands), Holy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley, Johnny Cash, Don Williams, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Little Feat, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Elvis -- but really, like nobody else. He did it all, from alt-country through folk rock, honky-tonk, blues and kickass rock and roll... Jeff was an original. Just listen and you'll understand...
Record LabelFrederick Productions, Rounder, Red Newt
Type of LabelIndie


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For the record, this is the Frederick Productions/Red Newt Records MySpace profile, but it all begins with Jeffrey Frederick. He's no longer with us in person, but his music remains as alive as ever and you can still find people dancing and laughing to it around the world.

Jeffrey (1950 - 1997) was charismatic, charming and had the sexiest grin you ever laid eyes on, usually with a Camel straight, a 'hump' to him, hanging out of the corner of his mouth. When he climbed on stage and started to sing you just had to dance, his music penetrated the soul. Jeffrey oozed talent. To quote our pal, Dave Reisch, "Jeff could take something as mundane as a pencil and make a song out of it." Jeff's middle name could have been humour, but it wasn't, he was Jeffrey Sutton Frederick and according to him he could do "any fucking thing he wanted" and he did. This included sometimes performing in a tutu and cowboy boots, or decorating the stage with a flock of hand-carved pink flamingos.

After many years creating havoc in Vermont, musical and otherwise, Jeffrey moved to Portland, Oregon in '75 and restarted the Clamtones. Or rather, the band in hand was the Clamtones when Jeff was the frontman and the Holy Modal Rounders when Steve Weber fronted... These "two bands in one" often shared the same stage. They soon became "the best fucking bar band in America" as one reviewer put it.

In '76 they took off on a 9,000 mile tour of the perimeter of the States. During the tour, Jeffrey recorded Have Moicy!" ("best album of the year," Village Voice,"the top folk album of the rock era" Rolling Stone) with Michael Hurley, Peter Stampfel, members of the Clamtones and Unholy Modal Rounders. The next year he recorded his only full-length album, the legendary (or is it notorious) Spiders in the Moonlight. Between these two recordings, the Clamtones/Rounders did a live radio show broadcast from Rohan's Rockpile in Vancouver B.C., which is the source of the two disc set, Clamtones B.C and Steve Weber, Holy Modal Rounders B.C. (from the middle set). Jeff morphed the Clamtones into Les Clams and kept the magic going. To borrow a phrase from Jeff's horn player, Teddy Deane, they weren't making a lot of money, but they sure were making a lot of good times!

In 1983 Jeff moved to Silver City, Nevada. There he gathered the cream of the crop of Northern Nevada's musicians and ooh la la! the Jeffrey Frederick Band was in motion. The guys had them dancing at the infamous saloons of Virginia City, the clubs of Reno and Lake Tahoe, and the bars of Dayton, Yerrington and Fallon, while Jeff returned to Portland and the Northwest from time to time with Les Clams.

Jeffrey's music was zany, hilarious and soulful. Not that he didn't write some straight-out romantic songs, but always in a way that made us laugh and feel good. The tunes and videos up here on MySpace give you a feel for that ol' Clam music as Jeffrey performed it over the years. To Jeffrey it wasn't a successful show unless he "made 'em dance" and he always had us dancing.

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On "St. Jeffrey's Day" 1997 (the uninitiated call it St. Patty's Day), Jeff left us wanting more. I started Frederick Productions as my way of fulfilling my promise to Jeff to care for his music. Beginning with The Jeffrey Frederick Band Live At The Icehouse, continuing with Ooh la la... Les Clams and the two-CD set, Jeffrey Frederick and The Clamtones B.C., we've been releasing the best of his live performances. And we remastered and released for the first time on CD The Resurrection of Spiders In The Moonlight, "the greatest album ever released" according to Portland's music and brewpub mogul Mike McMenamin. It has a new cover by Jeff's lifelong pal, Michael Hurley along with three unreleased studio tracks recorded in Reno, Nevada with the Jeffrey Frederick Band for a rock and roll album he was never able to complete.

In addition to Jeff's own work, I started releasing CDs from his friends and proteges like Jim Boyer, ace guitarist and singer with Portland's Freak Mountain Ramblers (Time Spent), Vermont hipster pal, Sisco (End of the Trail), and the notorious psychedelic folk legend Steve Weber (Holy Modal Rounders B.C. ).

I A couple years ago, we started the Red Newt Records label for new music that turns us on, beginning with eating that way by Portland's fabulous Alexa Wiley (check her out by clicking on her profile in our Top Friends). Next was former Clamtone, Teddy Deane's eclectic new album So Far So Good. It's closer to novelty and jazz than most of our other records, and it's hot. There's still much more to come from Jeff, his friends and others who keep alive the tradition of good-time Americana.

Our initial 2009 release was St. Jeffrey's Day: The Songs Of Jeffrey Frederick, Volume 1, first of a multi-disk tribute, with contributions by all the living Clamtones, Freak Mountain Ramblers, Michael Hurley, The Piano Throwers, Lewi Longmire Band, Bingo Dream Band, Lynn Conover and Little Sue, Billy Kennedy, and Jeff's son, Jake Ray (we'll be putting out a solo album of his in the near future). Next came Good Rain the first solo album by Jeff's protege, the amazing multi-instrumentalist Lex Browning (Freak Mountain Ramblers, Austin Lounge Lizards, Trail Band, Great Plains), which has been called "one of the best, if not THE best album to come out of Portland in many, many years."

For more about Jeff and our music, stories, tunes, reviews and lots more, click on the following link: Jeffrey Frederick Website. Our CDs are available directly from us at that website and, in both hard copy and for download, anywhere around the world fine music is sold.

Musicians, we'll gladly give permission to record covers, or if you play his tunes, just let us know and please send us a tape or MP3 or CD or whatever. Who knows, it might end up on St. Jeffrey's Day... If you're a broadcaster, email us and we'll get you some tunes to play on the air (or net). Heck, whoever and whatever you are, we'd love to hear from you! 

Kathryn Noel Frederick

music@jeffreyfrederick.com

www.frederickproductions.com

 

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Dan Barron





Jul 15 2009 6:53 PM

Thank you for the add. Check out my music at www.danbarronmusic.com or at www.myspace/danbarron let me know what you think.
Best wishes to you.
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Jul 10 2009 11:11 AM

CountryHome Forum, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , is one of the biggest Forum for country music in Europe and part of CountryHome, www.countryhome.de , Germany's Premier Online Country Music Magazine.

CountryHome Forum have more than 5,000 members. Each news you submit to CountryHome Forum will released to my weekly Newsletter with more than 50,000 readers.

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Jul 1 2009 10:13 PM

Check out the new FACEBOOK SONG and if your a Facebook member be sure and join the group "Fans of AJ Downing". Stay tuned on a new album due out by the end of the year!

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Jun 28 2009 4:46 PM


Myspace Commentshave a great week!
Massimo





Jun 28 2009 10:33 AM

thanks....
MADCOCK





Jun 27 2009 10:31 PM

nice. on another note.....
be glad pop culture isn't reality
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Jun 24 2009 12:20 AM

Thanks for the add & your friendship!
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Jun 24 2009 12:15 AM

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Lex





Jun 23 2009 11:32 PM

Great Clip.
Mammoth track at over 10.

Wouldnt be easy for 7 musos to sync in time..

Dig the way the guitarists do that,
lead/freestyle section near the outro.

Cruise with the week mate,
Best,
L.

Don Ramirez (aka Mr. Bratty)





Jun 22 2009 6:24 PM

Thanks, that's a real nice tune. He must have been quite someone to know.
Lex





Jun 22 2009 8:50 AM

Cheers Mate,
Had a listen to honeysuckle.
Mellow laid back track,
tunes i like when Kickin' back,
& enjoying an ale..

Used to be only metal a decade ago,
matured since,
(now its just sonic flavor of preference)
Blues / Jazz & other in the salad of sound also..

Post another if you want.
Will listen/suss it.

Have a good week,
Lex.
Ruby Jane





Jun 19 2009 3:45 PM

Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too!
Ruby Jane
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Spreading 2009 California desert summer vibe!
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Jun 16 2009 4:26 AM

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Jun 14 2009 9:09 PM

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May 24 2009 12:44 PM

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Ukulele Ray





May 26 2009 2:25 AM

This song is truly a prayer for
love and peace in the World.
On this Memorial Day, please
pray for peace, so that we
might not lose any more lives.
Peace & Love, Ukulele Ray

Mecca Bodega





May 27 2009 2:23 AM

new songs at www.meccabodega.com
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