- Don Krider, POWER POP MUSIC NEWS
"Ten Great Car Tunes" is the most sonically satisfying offering from pop/rock whiz Jamie Rounds to date. Echoes of Rounds' personal heroes - Brian Wilson, Steve Miller, Roger McGuinn and others - shine throughout the disc in the writing, playing and singing. With a couple of exceptions all instruments, songs and vocals are by Rounds himself.
- from amazon.com Editorial Reviews
"The album is a blast from start to finish. 11 songs with a running time of 33:56 minutes, but it took me hours to listen to as I played it again and again..."
- New York Power Pop Reviews
"Really a fresh and original delight"
- NOT LAME RECORDS
"Rounds merges melody with a more roots-based sound not unlike the kind of thing Marshall Crenshaw does."
- "Shake It Up"
"With the release of 10 Great Car Tunes, Jamie Rounds is primed to move on to greater public recognition."
- "20th Century Guitar"
"10 Great Car Tunes", Jangle Radio's "Favorite CD's of the year" list
- LIVE 365/Jangle Radio, Live Streaming Power Pop
"10 Great Car Tunes!"
CD'S AVAILABLE AT:
amazon.com
Not Lame Records
CD Baby
or download ALL SONGS from the iTunes store here:
...plus much more info at:
www.jamierounds.net
www.myspace.com/roundssongs
Me on lead guitar with The Records, "STARRY EYES"
@ Knitting Factory, Hollywood, CA
with Clem Burke (Blondie) on drums:
With Walter Egan and Nicole Gordon
on an impromptu "Magnet & Steel" at Kulak's Woodshed:
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Jamie Rounds is a songwriter and performer based in Nashville, TN. His melodic, guitar-driven power pop has been used by MTV, Paramount Pictures, Roger Corman Films, CNN and Leiber & Stoller Music, among others. His own "10 GREAT CAR TUNES" (Not Lame Records) appeared on Live 365/Jangle Radio's"CD's Of The Year" list, and has been featured on KLOS 95.5 / Los Angeles, in "20th Century Guitar" magazine and elsewhere. The CD is available at amazon.com and CD Baby , as well as Not Lame Records .
Since entering the film and TV music world, Rounds has established ongoing collaborations with some of Nashville and LA's most respected songwriters and music supervisors. His co-writers include Tom Hambridge, Walter Egan, Jerry Holland, Jon Ims and other top-selling writers & artists in the pop and country music fields.
Rounds has played played the Music City clubs for years, with friends Gillian Welch & David Rawlings , Walter Egan and others. He has appeared in concert as guitarist and vocalist with John Lee Hooker, The Steve Earle Band and many more, and was part of John Fogerty's "BLUE MOON SWAMP" tour in 1997. He was also recently lead guitarist for the seminal New Wave band John Wicks & The Records ("Starry Eyes", "Teenarama"). Graham Nash and rockabilly pioneer Charlie Gracie covered Rounds' "A LITTLE TOO SOON TO TELL" for Gracie's comeback CD, "I'm Alright".