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Jacob H James

I will never tell them my lost Martha Gray...

About Me

Jacob was born James in Yeovil, Somerset, left school at twelve on the understanding that he attend Yeovil school of art and religion for seven years and then move away indefinately once his course was complete. After living between London and the Shetland islands for approxemately four years Jacob moved to Cornwall and then the Orkney islands, dissapearing for a further eight years and returning just three years ago unharmed but unable to remember anything of his own dissapearance...Jacob is now living with a woman in Manchester...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/18/2006
Band Members: Jacob James
Influences: Anne Briggs, Nick Drake, Graham Greene, Leonard Cohen, Long walks in the countryside, Henry David Thoreau, William Blake, Polly Harvey, Karen Dalton, William Wordsworth, Jake Thackray, the night time air, the Search for eternal peace within the holy truth, John Parish, Bert Jansch, Will Oldham, my Dad, strong tea...
Sounds Like: "Everybody's tooth aches in the same way, everybody loves their mother, everybody loves or hates spinach. And those are the things that really count." (Jacques Brel)I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Record Label: nun...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Avenue

I wasn’t sure whether to include this, I have been experimenting and exploring other...’avenues’ (apologies) where I have consciously put my guitar away and tried something new and&n...
Posted by Jacob H James on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:20:00 PST

Cut the ropes was produced by...

'Cut the ropes' was recorded and produced by Graeme Borland, Nick Shakibai and myself over a few exhausting months leading up to February...Denise Morgan adds such magical gorgeousness to the song wit...
Posted by Jacob H James on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:05:00 PST

My sister makes soup...

 I sit at the table in my sister's Kitchen,  She takes two bowls of soup into her children,  Who are watching tele in the front room, I hear her say, "No! You're not...
Posted by Jacob H James on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:54:00 PST

I am still afraid

I am still afraid, Just as I was when I was seven years old, I would wake up in the middle of the night, After having had some sort of bad dream, And call out to my Mum and Dad, So that they woul...
Posted by Jacob H James on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:11:00 PST

Expectation part 1

Expectation part 1 I have written this line already, Before I was a teenager, Standing next to the garden gate, Fixed by my father,   In Colmer road in Yeovil, I knew expectation, I knew it was l...
Posted by Jacob H James on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:12:00 PST

Stomach ache

Stomach ache I wasn't certain,  I placed my right hand on my stomach, "Is this an ache, 'a Stomach ache'?" My mother would've called it this, When I was off school, It had a name then, So every...
Posted by Jacob H James on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:54:00 PST