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Jake Hemming

About Me

I'm a singer songwriter levitating between Seattle and Bellingham WA, and have a band called Big Sur that I put most of my concentration on... However, I play quite a bit on my own, between singer/songwriter slams at the Green Frog and solo showcases. I'm obsessed with Townes Van Zandt, Nick Drake and Mississippi John Hurt, and write songs about murders and girls and whiskey and pills and Indians and the ocean. I'm a large bearded man and love pretty much everything and want to hug the world a little bit too hard, which is often awkward for everyone. My friends 4 year old daughter Gracie told me "You're not a grownup, you're a train." That makes me happy.


Jake Hemming Live @ The Green Frog Acoustic Tavern 1.5.08

YouTube Links

Pagan Christmas
No Girl to Me
The Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits)

w/ Big Sur ( myspace )

Basement Bedroom Blues
Harbor Shops
Short Hair in a Dress
25th Birthday Song
Miss Kitty
The Painted Lady
Me and Townes
Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)

My Interests

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Member Since: 13/08/2007
Band Website: jakehemming.com
Band Members: Jake Hemming (writes all songs, all vocals, guitars, harmonicas, and other random noismakers). Derek Nickerson (on demo songs produces, arranges, engineers, plays keys, and extra doohickeys to make me sound nice) the Big Sur crew (on all Big Sur song's, Derek Jackman drums, Mike Bergstrom bass, Steve Norman pedal steel, Stell Newsome guitars, Joel Ricci trumpet, Jasmine Riley lead and backup vocals)
Influences: Townes Van Zandt, Cat Stevens, Frank Black, Elliot Smith, M. Ward, Nick Drake, Mason Jennings, Chuckanut Drive, Robert Sarazin Blake, Ron Hardesty, Jasmine Riley, Ryan Adams, Wilco, Johnny Cash, Shawnee Killgore, Blaze Foley, The Crying Shame, and you!
Sounds Like: Frank Black with a deeper voice and a prettier dress
Record Label: Unsigned

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