Joseph DeJarnette - bass, and/or guitar
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lots of great fiddlers!
Influences
Victrolas, mountains, cities, streetcorner backyard musicians and dancers. My taste is wide, and I get excited about any music where people are taking chances live and really listening deeply and interacting/reacting/moving with one another. I have been really drawn in by old time music but listen to and play all sorts of stuff and if I had to site names the list would be very long but today Riley Puckett and Mike Watt and the Roots come to mind, and I have recently been under the spell of the amazing guitar playing on the Theo And Gus Clark 78. I love all those crazy old stringband 78s especially the Skillet Lickers, Narmour and Smith and all those wacky georgia, kentucky, west virginia, and missisippi players.
I got my background from Backgrounds Archive!
Joseph plays, records and produces stringband music... most agree that he is at least moderately obsessed. He likes to play things very traditional, and he also deeply enjoys moving things forward a bit. He plays bass with New York's Angriest Yodeling Acrobatic Banjo player whenever he can. He loves old time and things related like beatboxing. He tries to give up material things but he seems to have developed a mild Victrola fetish. It is unneccesary to note that he is very good at taking them appart and getting better at putting them back together. He works in a jugband with no jugs and people seem to like that band (http://www.myspace.com/thewiyos). He would prefer to have a banjo in one ear and the fiddle in the other every waking hour while thumping a bass or guitar but has found that to be difficult to sustain on a 24 hour basis. Nevertheless he is sometimes reasonably content touring relentlessly in these trying times and living in the crazy artist/musician community in Brooklyn/New York City on the precious few days he has off, though he often daydreams of living in a shack with only shellac and gut string instruments for technology.
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Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette's Friend Space (Top 31)
LOVE the cd!!! i really admire your work. speaking of work, i was playing said cd at my place of work today (health food store) and one of the customers said, "this is hillbilly music!" with an air of something like disgust (it happened to be right at the part where you guys start hootin' and hollering). she continued, "sounds like the real thing" to which I responded, "yes, it does." she must have thought i was offended, because she added, "i listen to this kind of music", but it was clear that she does not.
yet another customer commented, saying, "this sounds like irish music" which is what people have said about every single cd i've brought in that has fiddle on it!!! (again with distaste). ugh. i happen to love and play traditional celtic music, and i know the celts had a lot of influence on a lot of types of music, but just because you hear fiddle strings does NOT MEAN IT'S IRISH MUSIC! close-minded people, what can you do. veronica says they don't know better, but they shouldn't be so judgemental!
sorry for the semi-rant, i just wanted to let you know that i love the cd.
awesome I was gonna go to mt airy but decided to stay home and make money instead. Definately Clifftop! I am gonna have a party there this year since I wasnt there last year!
Hey JB...missing you, for sure! Portland was amazing, and now we are in oakland/SF, and gettin' ready to rock the good folks of the bay area. hope to find you somewhere soon...
Hey man, thank you for being so flexible and playing all that kick ass guitar. I wish I could play guitar like that - we could be one big ol' portable inter-changeable rhythm section. Love the bass. It's oldtime perfection. See you soon.
