Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Bjork, and many others.
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Hopefully I sound like no-one else on the planet. I've been striving to create my own unique style and voice. However, think Dylan, Springsteen, and Neil Young. Oh, and one reviewer did mention Leonard Cohen, but I can't see it myself!
Jim Lesses has been writing songs since his mid-teens, although he only began performing them on regular basis in the mid-1990s. As Jim likes to say, he is something of a "late bloomer".
However, this is not necessarily a bad thing, since he feels that it is only over the past few years that his songwriting has matured to the point where 80 percent of his songs are worth a public airing. The other 20 percent remain hidden away in the back of his filing cabinet.
While it has been a 'long apprenticeship', it does have at least one other benefit according to Jim, who says, "At this age, no one is ever going to burden me with a New Bob Dylan tag!"
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Here is Jim singing his big 'hit', I Want to be Eight Again...
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Jim is an active member of the Folk Federation of South Australia, and can often be found behind the bar(!) serving drinks to patrons attending the Folk Federation's performance venue.
Jim is also an award winning songwriter. As long ago as 1989 his song, The Future Is Yours was selected as one of 12 finalists in the Victor Harbor Folk Festival Songwriting event, while in 1990 his song, Trivial Pursuit made it to third place. Following each Songwriting Event both songs were subsequently recorded by Jim for SCALA and released on compilation cassettes featuring all the finalists from each year.
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The next song is the title track from Jim's second album, American Dream...
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Jim was also a finalist in SCALA's 1999 Festival of Original Music (FOOM) in which he entered the song Feel The Fear, and Make it Run, and again in 2001 with the song Dance Like No-one is Watching.
Jim released his first solo recording in July 2002. Called, Sometimes (I Wake Up Naked), from the song of the same name, it contains some of his best known and most popular songs.
In 2002 Jim released his second album, American Dream. The album was recorded, produced, and mixed entirely by Jim at his home studio. Jim is currently working on his third album, Sometimes I Wake Up Naked, which he plans to have ready for release late in 2006.
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Finally, here is Jim singing Good Days, Better Days earlier this year... Hey, don't be shy - sing along with the audience...
You can see a bunch of other songs on Jim's YouTube page here... http://www.youtube.com/ikarian007
Enjoy...
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You can hear sound samples for all the songs on Jim's albums, as well as read the lyrics and see chord charts for all the songs, by visiting Jim's official website: http://www.jimlesses.com
Jim hope you are well. love the live vids of you - cant wait till i can do the same.. till then you reign supreme. and even then you can play an actual instrument dammit. :)
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Jim your movie is made.
send me an email - how do you want this sent to you?
would you like to view it before i post on the net (its a reasonable thing to do - it is your music).
last time i had to use yahoo messenger to send the file to the other artist - otherwise i can post it to myspace and youtube and you can enbed the file to your site.
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