THE MADISON ARM IS:
Ryan Tanner: pump organ, keyboards, vocals
Scott Wiley: freightliner guitar, knobs, banjo, vocals
Pat Campbell: suitcase odds & ends, vocals
George Brunt: bass, vocals
Paul Jacobsen: vocals, guitar
SATELLITE MEMBERS:
pedal steel:Dylan Schorer
keyboards: Brian Hardy, Scott Johnson
misc: Dominic Moore, Dustin Christensen, Dan Reneer, Eric Peterson, Spencer Price, The Indio Bait
Influences
Holly, Leo, Largo, fatigue, Hebgen, insecurity, Table Rock, seasons, Shel Silverstein, truth, lies, Great Lake Swimmers, heritage, Bill Simmons, NEIL YOUNG, Mexican food, unfounded elitists, obsessive completists, JON BRION, The Bible and other books containing truth, Dylan, NYC, headlines, bylines, ELLIOTT SMITH, perseverance, John Stockton, myth, gravity, Bon Iver, outrage, Nick Hornby, IM, swedish fish, WILCO, letdowns, Randy Newman, Michael Chabon, frustration, observing & envying genius at work, Mitch Hedberg, select Liverpudlians, boredom, The Band, beauty, conflict, Joe Henry, Scrabble, Radiohead, good friends who write better songs than me, sworn enemies who think they do.
Sounds Like
A little Grant Lee Phillips, a little Elliott Smith, a little Ryan Adams, You Might Regret You Ever Cared is dead-on songcrafting and alt-country/chamber-pop sheen tailor-made for critics lists. SL City Weekly
TALKING ABOUT THE NEW RECORD "PAUL JACOBSEN & THE MADISON ARM"
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"On his eponymous sophomore LP with the Madison Arm, Jacobsen settles into the backseat and lets the third-person narrative take control. A collection of 12 Americana/rock and pop songs whose stories are somehow intensely personal while describing the lives of others. Opening track “Lung” imagines him as both a fictionalized kidnap victim and terminally ill patient to help relay the universal ache of separation: “You said you love it when your heart is missed/melodramatically like this.” A bouncier ditty takes on the ubiquitous indie-rock girl, “dropping such a nonchalant list of your favorite bands/Sleater-Kinney, David Bowie, some band from Sweden and the Cars.”
It’s catchy, powerful imagery populated by characters who are fleshed out just enough. Jacobsen prefers to leave much of the song to the listener’s imagination and The LP stands out as more than typical singer/songwriter fare. It is, however, nothing shocking. Jacobsen is the first to admit he’s not trying to change the world."
-Jamie Gadette (Salt Lake City Weekly)
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"... a straight-ahead winner of an album, full of fine songs, including such highlights as the sad, majestic "Time," as well as "The World Unkind," "Stupid Little Things" and "Anything Pecked to Death Will Die." Drawing upon strong lyrics (listen to "Like a Proper Noun"), and gorgeous backup vocals from a cadre of local singers including Marcus Bently and Becky Jean Williams, The Madison Arm has made an album deserving of a larger audience."
-Scott Murphy, Salt Lake Tribune
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“Paul Jacobsen & The Madison Arm are incredible. (They) deliver a product so loaded with guts, bravery and honesty it’s almost too much for the average concert goer to appreciate. It’s very refined and very gutsy.”
–Chad, promoter, Solid Ground Café
------------- Paul Jacobsen has shared the stage with:
Great Lake Swimmers, Bowerbirds, Megafaun, Works Progress Administration, Sam Bush, Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Ellis Paul, Laura Gibson, Cotton Jones, Maria Taylor, Atherton, Matt Nathanson, Erin McKeown, Horse Feathers, Sarah Sample, Cryptacize, Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Rita Coolidge, Gary Jules, Jim Bianco, Dominic & Colin Moore, Joshua James, The Band of Annuals, Libbie Linton, Peter Breinholt, Jon McLaughlin, Cotton Jones, The Devil Whale, Tolchock Trio, Fictionist, Code Hero, Calico, Kid Theodore, Mitch Barrett, The Court & Spark, Matt Lewis Band, The Lionelle, The Indio Bait, Matt Harding Trio, Kate Graves, Alex Peterson, Sunfall Festival, Jerrytown, Mindy Gledhill, Jamen Brooks, Watsonville Patio, Sayde Price, Alex Peterson, Trevor Price, Lucy Moore, Jacob & Lily, Spencer Price, Cherie Call, Kathryn Cowles, Cheri Magill, Justin Luke, Shane Jackman, Townie, Myles Band, and more.
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Read all of the SLCW epistles. Hilarious. I can imagine the nightly serenade you endured. Congrats on the honors in the contest, wish I could have been there.
Don't know if you've seen it yet, but you have a pretty good blurb and photo in the new CW. Let's try to get some folks to that PC show. Nothing short of playing with Dylan is gonna get a lot of people to leave SLC. Brainstorm.
It's always enjoyable to see you w/ the whole band, you guys all mesh very well. I'm fairly certain that I weirded your wife out so, um, let her know I'm sorry. Anyways, great show at Velour
"time" is some kind of nice song. i really enjoyed reading the background on it. it seems it's a song stacked with one great one liner after another. great writing. so refreshing to hear that.
Hey Paul... Sarah Sample's sis here... So...Pretty much worn out your new cd...in just over one week! Especially fond of "you were" Congrats. and thanks!
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