Simon and Garfunkel (before the balding),The Beatles, Ray Lamontagne (after the shoe factory), Amos Lee, Wallflowers, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Van Morrison, Pete Yorn (especially the second half of musicforthemorningafter), Feist, Regina Spector (while singing crazy notes and playing the piano and the wooden chair with a drum stick), Imogen Heap, M. Ward, Ben Kweller, Jimi Hendrix, David Gray (in his pajama suit), Keane, Jeff Buckley
Sounds Like
Josh Rouse, Amos Lee, Ray Lamontagne, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Sondre Lerche, David Gray, Wilco
It's a long story, more fit for a novel than a paragraph. The short of it is that I've been writing songs since the day I received my first guitar. I was always fascinated with music, always wanted to be one of those people who could play music. Since the moment I got my first guitar I couldn't put it down. It was May of 1996, the month I graduated from high school. I wrote constantly. I spent most of my life at that point in the basement. I would record into this old RCA boom box through its built-in microphone. I must have fifty cassette tapes in a box in the garage. From there, I moved to the four track. My recordings improved with the quality of my songs. I can't tell you how many songs I've written to date. I'd like to know. I'd guess it's somewhere around 200. In 2004, I began tracking my first real studio record. I'd tried and failed to make it happen for years. The whole thing fell together nicely with the right people around. The record, Boomerang, was released in December 2005. For the first time, I was getting airplay in states other than my own. Boomerang has been featured on several TV shows: The Ghost Whisperer, Joan of Arcadia, Whistler, Lincoln Heights, Army Wives and Harper's Island. I started work on my follow up record, Time for Change, in the fall of 2007. It was a seasonal record. I wrote almost the entire record that fall over several mornings sitting at my kitchen table. After a year tracking and mixing, Time for Change was digitally released January 12, 2009. It has already been featured on One Tree Hill and The Ghost Whisperer and it will be the end title theme in the upcoming motion picture, I Hate Valentine's Day, starring Nia Vardalos and John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding.)
I just wanted to write and remind you that the first handout will be toward the end of December (exact date and location to come)! You still have almost two months to get your scarves in! If K.F.T.N. gets enough scarves donated, scarves will be passed out to the homeless in the North, and East Bay! We will also need help passing them out, so if that is something you would like to do, just let me know!
Thank you for your support- I hope all is well over in the big C!
Sorry to spam you, we know it's lame. But, we're releasing our debut CD Zugenruhe next Friday (May 22nd) at Avogadro's Number right here in Fort Collins, and we would really love to see you there! The show starts at 9pm and is all ages and only costs $3. There will be an afterparty to be announced at the show. Thanks for putting up with our shameless self promotion. We really hope you can make it. -Alana, Brett & Erin (Stella Luce)
Hello there. Any musical friend of C. Jak's is a friend of mine, that's what I say. I actually downloaded your new album about two months back and love it... All this great music in Colorado. I think perhaps I need to move there. :)
