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Jeremy Vallender

A life of Love!

About Me

Human Grandson Son Brother Uncle Cousin Friend Singer-Songwriter Musician Collaborator Producer Collector Culinarian Dog lover

My Interests

Music:

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

My Blog

JAV13 CD DISCOGRAPHY, 2008

                  ----Full length JAV13 CDs: JAV13- String Something Together. (release date 5/08). JAV13- Take Noth...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:38:00 PST

Rural living lessons remembered.

Some things I remembered when in Beaverton this last week- When push mowing on a hill- always mow across the slope, not up and down it, so as to avoid losing toes. Check the oil! Mosquitos aren't bad ...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:35:00 PST

New Motto.

Excellence is the result of:      -caring more than some think is wise-      -risking more than some think is safe-       -dreaming mor...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Sun, 27 May 2007 08:42:00 PST

A POEM OF HUMOR AND PROTEST by KENNETH PATCHEN

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN INTERIOR DECORATOR Aaa, haa, a pity that you were put to the trouble of being born.You're such a nervous little whelp.It's a damn shame you had to be bothered. Painting, m...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Sun, 20 May 2007 03:28:00 PST

Prayers for Peace.

Eternal God, creator of all souls, grant unto us such clear vision of the sin of war that we may earnestly seek that co-operation between nations which alone, through thy guidance, can make wars impos...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Sat, 12 May 2007 07:22:00 PST

The Talkin' Busted-Out Boot Blues

  One time I realized what that I had a problem that I couldn't hardly fix but I didn't wanna bother you. Well, my feet were really sore and my knees a little hollow. I couldn't barely walk so in...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:07:00 PST

JAV13's 13 desert island records.

in no particular order, from memory, these are my top 13 desert island records- 1. Simon & Garfunkel- Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. 2. Idaho-  This Way Out. 3. The Painting- 888. 4. The Beach Boy...
Posted by Jeremy Vallender on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:28:00 PST