Member Since: 8/9/2005
Band Website: purevolume.com/jeremyvallender
Band Members: All Words, music and production by JAV13, except:
Drums on Graffiti by Raul Duran.
Flute on Aluminum Hummingbird by Kate Chism-
Also appearing on "String Something Together"-
Raul- Drums, Stuff, Mixing and Mastering.
Gabriel Hadd- Original Music, Acoustic Guitar, Stuff.
James "Seamus" Donald Ballard III- Voice, Stuff.
Emily Rose- Ringtone.
Geoff Pelkey- New Photographs.
Influences: Disney Music, Hymns, Gospel, The Blues, Folk music, Show tunes, Motown, Brill Building, Buddy Holly, Ben E. King, The Drifters, Sam Cook, Marvin Gaye, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star), DEVO, R.E.M., Woody Guthrie, Simon and Garfunkel, Buffy Saint Marie, Leadbelly, The Beach Boys, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, John Lennon, James Taylor, The Throes, Nirvana, beck, Jeff Martin (IDAHO), Jason Leichner and The Painting, The Zombies, Leonard Cohen, Wm. S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, A.P. Carter Family, radiohead, Sonic Youth, LOW, Slowdive, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Flying Saucer Attack, Tortoise, Marc Ribot, Hans Reichel, Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, The Flaming Lips, The Apples in Stereo, of Montreal, Our Space In Time, Nick Drake, Jim O'rourke, Wilco, Those Transatlantics, Anathallo, Segernomics, X, Devendra Banhart, Laura Veirs, Joanna Newsom, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Creative Improvised Music, World Musics, Minimalist Musics, Kraut Rock, Jazz Musics, Avant-Garde Musics, Edgar Cayce (and his magical weeping guitars), Friends, Trees, The Woods, Mimi, Little Tobacco Creek, Birds, Fields, Out-buildings, Old Farmhouses, Fire, Smoke, Lost Loves, False Starts, the activities of Driving, Reading, Dreaming, Cooking, etc.... The SMURFS!!!
Sounds Like: Singer-Songwriter, Michigan Primitive.
Record Label: Currently Out-of-Print Recording Company
Type of Label: Indie