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Jim Colbert

Until someone hears it, it ain't a song...

About Me

Winner, 2007 Susquehanna Folk Music Society Songwriting Contest • Americana in Paris "Best of the Year" • Boattail Riviera selected for Neil Young's Living With War Today page •

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/8/2006
Band Website: jimcolbertmusic.com
Band Members: Just me, but I'm also sometimes joined by my lovely wife Cynthia for duo shows. I'm also way up for doing split-bills, or being an opening act, hint, hint! And I'm way up for having a lead player or a fiddler sit in, too...
Influences: Scott Ainslie, Erik Balkey, Eric Bogle, Jackson Browne, Johnny Cash, Jud Caswell, Jim Croce, Kris Delmhorst, Kevin Dremel, Archie Fisher, Abbie Gardner, Steve Gillette, John Gorka, Harlan Howard, James Keelaghan, Terence Martin, Cynthia Mazzant, David Olney, Jerry Rasmussen, Marty Robbins, Jon Rounds, Tom Russell, Richard Shindell, Jimmy Webb, Lee Wessman, George Wirth, Zoe Speaks, ...good coffee, bad coffee, mark helprin, andrew wyeth, charles sheeler, charlie hunter...
Sounds Like: I better not quit my day job. Or, the poor man's David Olney.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

today I...

got a haircut (many of them, actually)poked around on the car lot, killing twenty minuteshad a latte from Wegman'sworked on a consulting project, coming to the conclusion, "gee, you guys do things pre...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Thu, 01 May 2008 04:28:00 PST

3 Weeks til Folk College...

Join us!www.folkcollege.comI have to admit, Gentricorum and Creaking Tree are really similar to my ear, but those bands are for you instrumental-type folks, and you hot fiddlers, not us singer/songwri...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Thu, 01 May 2008 04:15:00 PST

Irish whiskey

So after 3 weeks of no freelance at Barash, they asked me to clean out the last few things out of my old cube, so they could give it to a salesperson, as they rearrange the office space.The last two ...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:17:00 PST

its 8:28am, and today I...

installed more memory in my wife's macbookread chapter 8 in Megg's history of graphic designam going down to sign a contract for a freelance gig that will really help my year out (ah, shit, I guess I ...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:34:00 PST

new pics

I uploaded a couple new pics taken by Garrison Gunter at the Danny Schmidt house concert at Doug Henry's in Boalsburg, PA, last Friday. Check 'em out! Hmm, I guess I should really consider doing diffe...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:24:00 PST

lots of stuff

Hey, today is my 6th anniversary. Cynthia is living proof that once in a very great while, something really really good does happen to me. I bought her an iPod nano for our anniversary, cause I knew s...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:21:00 PST

Come to the Danny Schmidt house concert in Boalsburg Friday 4.18

Our friend Doug Henry is bringing back Austin’s wonderful singer songwriter Danny Schmidt for a house concert 7:30pm Friday, April 18. (I’ll do a short opening set)To me, Danny is one of t...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:42:00 PST

a fleeting thought

Okay, just a quick thought.Do people, in their well-intended minds, stop to think that the question "did you find a new job yet?" (which I fielded 4 times Saturday evening) could maybe at very least, ...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

automotive oddities

Driving in this morning, I was sitting at the stoplight on Benner Pike and a car parked on the side of the road caught my eye. Dark color, non-descript Nissan Altima. Which is a perfectly fine, depend...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:30:00 PST

march meanderings in a merry meadow with a morose monkey

Okay, this really isn’t about meandering in a meadow at all.it’s an odd sort of day here. I almost feel a bit of spring in the air, not just warm winter. I’ve been really feeling dow...
Posted by Jim Colbert on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST