Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette

About Me

Joseph plays bass with New York's Angriest Yodeling Acrobatic Banjo player whenever he can. He loves stringband music and things related like beatboxing. He tries to give up material things but he seems to have developed a mild Victrola fetish. It is unneccesary to note that he is very good at taking them appart and getting better at putting them back together. He works in a jugband with no jugs and people seem to like that band (http://www.myspace.com/thewiyos). He would prefer to have a banjo in one ear and the fiddle in the other every waking hour while thumping a bass or guitar but has found that to be difficult to sustain on a 24 hour basis. Nevertheless he is sometimes reasonably content touring relentlessly in these trying times and living in the crazy artist/musician community in Brooklyn/New York City on the precious few days he has off.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/9/2006
Band Website: truthfacerecordings.com/jb
Band Members: Joseph DeJarnette - bass, and/or guitar w/ lots of great fiddlers!
Influences: Victrolas, mountins, cities, streetcorner backyard musicians and dancers. My taste is wide, and I get excited about any music where people are taking chances live and really listening deeply and interacting/reacting/moving with one another. I have been really drawn in by old time music but listen to and play all sorts of stuff and if I had to site names the list would be very long but today Riley Puckett and Mike Watt and the Roots come to mind, and I have recently been under the spell of the amazing guitar playing on the Theo And Gus Clark 78. I love all those crazy old stringband 78s especially the Skillet Lickers, Narmour and Smith and all those wacky georgia and missisippi players.
Sounds Like: Guts
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Tunes!

So the tunes on this page are from some great projects I have been involved with. The First Track is a new OT band called Light and Hitch. (an oldtimer's expression for hitch up your horse and come o...
Posted by Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:55:00 PST

alt BIO

"Joebass arrived in the world finding himself a virginian in the 1970s. At a very young age he showed a strong fascination with all things musical, especially turntables. While early on he was satisfy...
Posted by Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:52:00 PST

Sweetback Sisters EP and mini-tour offcial

Hey Everyone... just wanted to let you know about the sweetback sisters... a new project that I have the great honor of playing bass with occassionally... This is a fantastic group fronted by two..ama...
Posted by Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:14:00 PST

Dirtballs go public!!!

Hey everybody, I just wanted to let you know that I have just posted some new recordings of my new and exciting side project The Dirtballs! I love all forms of old time music and this is the kin...
Posted by Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:36:00 PST