Jamie Rounds plus the usual gang of idiots...as in, mostly me on everything. Thanks to Nicole Gordon, John Hall and Lance Hoppen ("Orleans") and Cat Miller for their great contributions.
Heartfelt thanks to Graham Nash for cutting "A Little Too Soon To Tell" with Charlie Gracie, to Roger McGuinn for the encouragement, and to Jack Scott and The Beach Boys for digging my versions of their songs.
Oh yeah...Buzz is the guy who went off the cliff in "Rebel Without A Cause", if you didn't know.
...NEW CD NOW AVAILABLE THRU PAYPAL:
"The long-awaited follow-up to the surprise Indie hit CD '10 Great Car Tunes!'. As before, most of the instruments and vocals are by Jamie Rounds, with certain notable exceptions this time out. Namely, John Hall and Lance Hoppen from Orleans, Jim Weider from The Band, Nicole Gordon, Jonell Mosser and a few other luminaries, all of whom help make this new package shine even more brightly than the 'Car Tunes' disc." - amazon.com
"With his musical spirit inspired by ‘60s pop, Jamie Rounds is a cutting edge folk-rock artist, adept in a range of musical styles including ‘50s rock and roll, Byrds inspired 12 string pop sounds and trace elements of surf inspired guitar instrumentals. In his notes for the 2007 CD release of The Pasadena Pop Sessions, Rounds credits mentors like Pete Seeger, Jack Scott and Brian Wilson, all given the Rounds treatment on three classic covers here. Playing just about everything and nailing some tasteful electric guitar sounds and styles in the mix, Rounds also proves to be a fine singer as he evokes that classic West Coast pop sound and more with 'The Pasadena Pop Sessions'". - 20th Century Guitar
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"Thinking Man's rock 'n pop...a stunning mix of pop, rock, rockabilly and Opryland all rolled together." - Don Krider, POWER POP MUSIC NEWS
"Ten Great Car Tunes" is the most sonically satisfying offering from pop/rock whiz Jamie Rounds to date. Echoes of Rounds' personal heroes - Brian Wilson, Steve Miller, Roger McGuinn and others - shine throughout the disc in the writing, playing and singing. With a couple of exceptions all instruments, songs and vocals are by Rounds himself. - from amazon.com Editorial Reviews
"The album is a blast from start to finish. 11 songs with a running time of 33:56 minutes, but it took me hours to listen to as I played it again and again..." - New York Power Pop Reviews
"Really a fresh and original delight" - NOT LAME RECORDS
"Rounds merges melody with a more roots-based sound not unlike the kind of thing Marshall Crenshaw does." - "Shake It Up"
"With the release of 10 Great Car Tunes, Jamie Rounds is primed to move on to greater public recognition." - "20th Century Guitar"
"10 Great Car Tunes", Jangle Radio's "Favorite CD's of the year" list
- LIVE 365/Jangle Radio, Live Streaming Power Pop
Me on lead guitar with The Records, "STARRY EYES" @ Knitting Factory, Hollywood, CA with Clem Burke (Blondie) on drums:
With Walter Egan and Nicole Gordon on an impromptu "Magnet & Steel" at Kulak's Woodshed:
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Jamie Rounds is a songwriter and performer based in Nashville, TN. His melodic, guitar-driven power pop has been used by MTV, Paramount Pictures, Roger Corman Films, CNN and Leiber & Stoller Music, among others. His own "10 GREAT CAR TUNES" (Not Lame Records) appeared on Live 365/Jangle Radio's"CD's Of The Year" list, and has been featured on KLOS 95.5 / Los Angeles, in "20th Century Guitar" magazine and elsewhere. The CD is available at amazon.com and CD Baby, as well as Not Lame Records.
Since entering the film and TV music world, Rounds has established ongoing collaborations with some of Nashville and LA's most respected songwriters and music supervisors. His co-writers include Tom Hambridge, Walter Egan, Jerry Holland, Jon Ims and other top-selling writers & artists in the pop and country music fields.
Rounds has played played the Music City clubs for years, with friends Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Walter Egan and others. He has appeared in concert as guitarist and vocalist with John Lee Hooker, The Steve Earle Band and many more, and was part of John Fogerty's "BLUE MOON SWAMP" tour in 1997. He was also recently lead guitarist for the seminal New Wave bandJohn Wicks & The Records ("Starry Eyes", "Teenarama").
Graham Nash and rockabilly pioneer Charlie Gracie covered Rounds' "A LITTLE TOO SOON TO TELL" for Gracie's comeback CD, "I'm Alright".
Hey Jamie....what's up in Nashville?? So.....thanks for checking out our space and everything!! btw....your tracks sound really really GREAT!! Anyway....hope you like our music??!! ttyl
Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante’s mother sang backup on their song “Under The Bridge”, along with two of her friends from church. Originally, the song was just a poem that singer Anthony Kiedis wrote about his days as a heroin addict and the loneliness that went with it. The bridge mentioned in the song is a place where he sometimes went to buy drugs and get high. Kiedis didn’t write it for the Chili Peppers - it was a very personal poem that he thought he might use somewhere else. Producer Rick Rubin found it in one of his notebooks and told Anthony that it could be a great song. At first, he didn't want to sing it or share it with anyone, but he eventually came around.
thank you Jamie for inviting me on to play! Your performance at the Bluebird was brilliant! to top it all off PBS had the Byrds on that evening! What a terrific night! keep me posted. peace.
With much LOVE ,a dream has come true...As promised Im letting those who may have asked know......Please let me announce to my friends that my solo effort " DreamSong " is now at CD baby and you can try out the entire work for free...I think you will enjoy it as it is a new and different pop rock concept album, Maybe the first of its kind done exclusively with guitar synths ...An eclectic soundtrack of those forgotten previous lives. Wishing you the best of music and creativity ! Love makes dreams come true.
Happy Thanksgiving weekend, Jamie — wish you were still around here, but it was great to hang with you in Nashville last month. Hope you are enjoying a relaxing, peaceful holiday.
LITTLE STEVEN VAN ZANDT (of The Sopranos and Springsteen fame) and THE UNDERGROUND GARAGE say: "THE MOCKERS have one of the COOLEST SONGS IN THE WORLD!" Get the CD now!
