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Joshua Meltzer

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About Me

Joshua Meltzer is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who recently re-located to the Northampton MA area via Los Angeles. He had two co-writes on Eastmountainsouth's Dreamworks debut including "You Dance" which reached ..1 on the Non Com Triple A charts. He's had songs placed on the WB's "One Tree Hill", HBO,STARZ Networks,MTV's Real World Philly and Road Rules.In 2004 he was nominated for an L.A. Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter. He won the Grand Prize for the John Lennon Songwrters Contest in the World Music Category as well as 2nd place in the International Songwriting Competition. He also is a three time ASCAP Advantage Award winner and was chosen in 2005 for the ASCAP Lester Sill Workshop.He also has a co-write, On Peter Bradley Adam's new record "Gather Up" called "One Foot Down" . It is the album's first single. Also, Lowen and Navarro featured his song "Fall" on their new record "Hogging the covers".In December he received the ASCAP Robert Allen Award at Lincoln Center.He currently is recording a CD with Malcolm Burn(Peter Gabriel,Emmylou Harris,Bob Dylan,Daniel Lanois). His E.P. "Digital dirt"is available @ www.joshuameltzer.com »-(¯`v´¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯`v´¯)-«

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/13/2005
Band Website: joshuameltzer.com
Influences: The Beatles, Daniel Lanois, Beck,U2,Dave Mathews, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan,Radiohead,Coldplay,Peter Bradley Adams,Peter Gabriel,David Byrne,Sting,Police too!,Matt King,Patty Griffin,Martin Sexton,Thomas Newman,Bob Marley, Bjork,Sufjan AND Cat Stevens,Teitur,Elliot Smith,Jeff Buckley,Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,Dead Can Dance,Nillson's "The Point",Stevie Wonder(especially "Songs in the key of life")Pink Floyd,Nick Drake,Bright Eyes,Bjork,Tom Waits,Neil Finn,Jon Brion,Nora Jones,Real World Records,Six Degrees Records,Alan Watts,Rumi,Pema Chodron,Malcolm Burn,Gerry Leonard,Bhagavan Das, Neem Karoli,Ry Cooder,Debussy,The Simpsons, Jimi Hendrix,TheBand, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright,Chris Whitley,Neil Young... well CSN also of course,Jesse Harris,John Coltrane,Bela Fleck,the music from South Park,Ben Folds,Ouspenski,Camus,Henry Miller,T-Bone Burnett,Van Morrison,... hmm... Shall I go on??
Sounds Like: me
Record Label: what's that?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Help the Dalai Lama and Tibet!

Hi, I just signed an urgent petition calling on the Chinese government to respect human rights in Tibet and dialogue with the Dalai Lama. This is really important, and I thought you might want to ta...
Posted by Joshua Meltzer on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:57:00 PST

Easy Like Sunday Morning

Hey all,My song Gypsy Moon is featured on a cool Compilation CD called "Easy Like Sunday Morning" on Circleback Music.Buy it and support a good cause!    artwork by JT Steiny March 25, 2...
Posted by Joshua Meltzer on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:48:00 PST

Tibet

OK.. So I won’t get in to the politics of the ongoing situation in Tibet. Nor will I give my opinions on why our goverment chooses where and where not to "ignite freedom" on this planet.I think ...
Posted by Joshua Meltzer on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:47:00 PST

My Record

Ok.. So the plot thickens. I am just about ready to go in to the studio to record with the amazing Malcolm Burn(Bob Dylan,Emmylou Harris,Peter Gabriel,Daniel Lanois and a zillion others). It's be...
Posted by Joshua Meltzer on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:33:00 PST

ASCAP Robert Allen Award

Well... Out of the 10 of us chosen for the ASCAP Workshop one of us was chosen( from all the industry guest speakers) as the winner of the Robert Allen Award. And um... it was me!! I'm honored, especi...
Posted by Joshua Meltzer on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:27:00 PST

ASCAP Extended Songwriter's Workshop

So the month of May flew by and the workshop was amazing! I met so many great people . I learned a bit about my self in the process as well.
Posted by Joshua Meltzer on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:24:00 PST