Jae Bedford-Guitars/Vocals/Bass/Sampling/piano/bouzuki/mandolin/Banjolin
Bash Jowsey-Drums/Percussion
Jessie Hewitt-Bass/Vocals
Chris LoRang-Saxaphone
Abbie-Vocals
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Influences
Van Zandt, Waits, Cohen, Spingsteen, Bon Jovi/Sambora, Earle, Cougar Mellencamp, Williams, Coffey, McGrath, Lennon/McCartney(Together not seperatly), Duritz, Stradlin/Rose, a hot summers night, a sun shower, Guthrie, a broken heart, My beautiful children, Wilson, Currie, Pro Wrestling, Great films, Monahan, the sound of an acoustic guitar, Thomas, Cash, Dylan, Kilcher, Neilson/Zander, Petty, A Country song, Folk, The Troubadour's and Outlaws, Jagger/Richards, love, Deciept, Reality checks, Infidelity, Nelson, Haggard, Jennings, Kristferson, Page/Plant, Tyler/Perry, Making love, rain on a tin roof, Soup in front of the fire, long walks and Telling stories.......and so much more.
Sounds Like
John Cougar Mellencamp, Steve Earle, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Bruce Springsteen with a splattering of Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20.
Jae Bedford - World famous in South Dunedin. Jae Bedford is a Dunedin Based Singer/Songwriter who cares more about the songs than 'some dumb trend'. He loves playing live and has performed all over New Zealand Solo and With The Jae Bedford Band. Jae has made many Tv and radio appearances. Jae is a graduate of the Nelson school of music and has written for many succesful New Zealand bands such as Dust n Bones, Commercial 500, The Rebels, Jaded, Stark Raving and Fallen Angel.
Jae has Recorded 3 solo albums('One True Thing', 'Live n Kickin Vol 1' & 'Unplugged n' Unhinged Vol 1') and appears on Stark Ravings 1st (Self tittled) album on guitar, Vocals & Harmonica. Jae is working on a new album right now called 'Telling stories with chords'. You can check out some of the demo's on his myspace page right now.
Jae is a finalist for the 'Sounds of your home town' competition for New Zealand misuic month 2008.
Jae is a graduate of the Nelson School of Music and his new album “Telling stories with chords� will be out in 2009.
Check out the new Demo's For my next album@ http://www.myspace.com/thejaebedfordband
Jae Bedford is putting together a songwriting portfolio with the intention of making it available for lisencing and potential release by other artists/Soundtracks etc. Jae is a very prolific songwriter and has written for many acts in New Zealand and wishes to get his material across internationally. if there is any intrest out there in checking out this portfolio by artists, record companies & film makers please contact jaebedford@hotmail.com or messeage Jae personally via www.myspace.com/jae_bedford or
www.reverbnation.com/jaebedford
www.Reverbnation.com/thejaebedfordband
please go to www. reverbnation. com/jaebedford and join mailing list or become a fan i'm artist number 28 and wanna knock the great Kenny Chesney off Number 1 LOL
I made it into the finals of the KFC Sounds of your Hometown Competition and will be playing the KFC south Dunedin Sat 3rd May 2pm thanks to you votes...Cheers
I have also made it to artist 30 in the country genre on reverbnation. com.......I am looking forward to an up coming show I am organising in whitch I will play only my latest material......
See You at the show on sat Thanks again it means the world to me that you all voted for me.......
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