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About Me

Born in a family where music is life, I started playing guitar at the age of 11. Songwriting has always been my therapy; I feel that once I can put something down in writing and shout it out melodically, I have conquered it. I write about desire, dreams and the weakness of will, because, well, when I have everything I desire, fulfilled dreams, and the will to do what I will, I don't write (I also hold the world record for most commas in a sentence.) Everything I hear makes me want to write, so I end up with songs drenched in reggae, polka, folk and God knows what else. Who knows what I'll hear next; maybe salsa, maybe surf, maybe psychadelic-electro-barbershop... all I know is that I don't control it. It just comes out.

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Member Since: 13/09/2006
Band Members: Jacob Cuff; Singer, writer, guitar, bass Contributing: Donny Utah; Cello on "Queer Lullaby." Amanda Schwersky; cello, viola on "I Am," "The Waltz." LT Ostroski; Production on "Queer Lullaby," and "California." Dave Pierog; drums on "Firelight." Joey Pierog; Bass on "Firelight." Brian Coombes; production on "Firelight," "I Am.," "The Waltz."
Influences: John Lee Hooker, Tool, Cat Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Ben Harper, Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead, James Taylor, Andre Segovia, Alice in Chains, Live, Bjork, Tom Waits, and everything else I've ever heard
Sounds Like: If Billy Joel had been locked in a basement for three years with nothing to drink but whisky and nothing to eat but K.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Best

So, this is it. This is all I have to say about that chapter of my life. I'm done. Upside is, I get to write about other stuff now. Downside, I can't quite figure out what that...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:51:00 GMT

I Am

Alone in the mountains this winter, I found myself reading Thich Naht Hanh's Being Peace. In it, the Zen teacher and master speaks on anger... he says how many of us try to disassociate o...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:44:00 GMT

Way Down

I'd rather not explain this one.... It should be self-explanatory. I hope he found peace... but I chose to struggle on despite.
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:38:00 GMT

Sunny

This one came out like diarrhea... it didn't make much sense until I was done, then... hoo boy, it about explains a lot. The forbidden fruit, we'll recall, was the beginning of sin...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:36:00 GMT

Like It Or Not

For the love of God, people, this song has a name. And it's not the Take It From Behind song. Yes, yes, I know you hear it loud and clear, I know you remember it, and I know that people sh...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:42:00 GMT

California

The day I moved to California I started having these horrible pains in my chest; some days it was so bad I just couldn't get up. Nothing wrong with your heart, said Mr. Cardiologist....
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:22:00 GMT

Queer Lullaby

Hmm. How to explain such a personal song without getting too personal? A friend of mine had some horrible, horrible things happen in her life. For months afte...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:14:00 GMT

Green Light

This recording was made at a benefit show at the Criterion in Bar Harbor. I think it captures fairly well the politics behind trying to maintain a friendship between people who shared som...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:10:00 GMT

Just Because

Ahh, Just Because. This song was written in a coffeeshop the morning after a forbidden tryst which made me reflect on all the many things in life that are the way they are, well... just b...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:05:00 GMT