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You can listen to or purchase high quality MP3s from the new CD “Use Both Hands” to play on your iPod or any other MP3 player by clicking on the song title below. Each song costs 99 cents.
The 10th song on the new CD, a cover of Oingo Boingo’s “Weird Science,” is only available on the physical CD which you can buy at MarkAaronJames.com or CDbaby. Hope ya dig the new music.
Just wrote this odd song and kinda dig it, lots of sexual innuendo and double entendres. Fun to write.
The video for KLEPTOMANIAC GIRLFRIEND
Influences
'70s singer/songwriters, '80s cartoons, '90s powerpop, '00s New York
I am the host and a performer during this very cool weekly show in Battersea. Come check it out!
Sounds Like
Elvis Costello, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Ben Folds and the Barenaked Ladies jamming together after a a few nice bottles of wine.
Every one of my myspace friends is actually a friend, or a friend of a friend, or a fan of my music. They have all, at the very least, exchanged messages with me and have listened to my songs. Please keep that in mind if you'd like to friend request me. I want to make new friends and fans, but I will not just be another notch on your myspace bedpost. I take the word "friend" seriously, even in the virtual world.
I wrote my first straight ahead blues song...well until the pop bridge. It's called Stepmamma Blues, with compliments to my step mom and apologies to my dad, who is a great guy, despite what this song says.
.. Video of my first new song, written in the UK. Pale and tired, recorded in the morning.
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Mark Aaron James
Mark Aaron James and his band were raised by wild animals for a failed Disney documentary in the early seventies. The project went terribly awry when Swedish bass player, Victor Broden, brutally mauled a cameraman who came between he and his mate. Devastated, and still living among the beavers in the multi-level dam they called home, the band kicked out the original drummer, Frisky Sutcliff, for the better smelling David Burch, from Knoxville, Tennessee.
It was during this period that the band began its "boyband" dancing phase. It proved largely unpopular due to the group's choreographer, their adopted father, a sixty pound beaver named Gip. Most of the dances consisted of the four-man band building a reinforcement wall using only their asses.
Guitarist Eric Halbig suggested the band try it's new direction, alternative/pop mixed with the bravado of rock & roll classics, after chewing a large redwood into a shiny red Stratocaster without chipping any teeth, (taken as a sign from the Almighty).
The band, still scarred by its brush with fame in the documentary, was skeptical. Then they heard that a good, independent band, without any industry contacts, didn't have a chance in hell of getting on corporate radio. Comforted by the promise of obscurity, they formed Mark Aaron James and The Borrowed Souls with the Floridian lead singer and award winning songwriter.
When they became the number two music act among the beavers, (trailing just behind a Grateful Dead tribute band made up of three dancing bears and Simon, of the chipmunks, who left due to Alvin's hogging the spotlight), they decided to take their act on the road. They dont bite...*anymore...so come see 'em.
*(We are not responsible if you feed or provoke the band in an attempt to test this statement).
Hey Mark, hope you had a superb trip to Miami! I really enjoyed last halo-night! Impressed by your hosting & really enjoyed your sets, not just saying it! Hope you enjoyed my tunes :-) I've got a lot more up-tempo stuff that's not recorded yet. Soon soon...
how are you buddy? just thought I'd drop by and say hi and let you know I'm playing the Bitter End in NYC in July which I'm pretty pleased about! Hope you might help me out like you said and refer a few people down to watch. :-)
hey man, got a job back in London at the studio you came to do your vocals, which is all good. Currently i am moving to the South side of the river but keep your ears out for any other places available, i would prefer north london :), mainly to be near the Arsenal stadium!. Anyway hope all is well. Lost your number when someone dropped a 20ft steel pole and it landed on my phone, suppose i am glad it wasn't me! Look forward to playing with/for you soon
Really looking forward to our 1st Anniversary Party of our acoustic night ...ON STAGE @ The Halo coming Tuesday 14th April 2009 with some of our best artists so far.
Thanks so much for a really well run evening of live music Mark - great set-up, great stage, great piano, great host. Will certainly contact you in the future about London gigs.
Hi Mark - Thanks for a great night at The Halo - great sound & venue and of course you are the host from heaven - you silver tongued devil - cheers - Gabriel
