Member Since: 10/17/2005
Band Website: jacobsmigel.com
Band Members: I play most of the parts in my recordings. When playing live, I most often play with the "bear-like" Joe Kendall. Alethia Unna was my drummer (also played bass, mandolin, and more) for much of 2005 and 2006. The band "My Sexual Dad" (Evan George, Joel Black, Evan Nicol-Johnson, and Annie O’Maley), Joe Webb, Jesse Smigel, John McCauley & Dennis Ryan of the band "Deer Tick," and a super-villain named "Dr. Bloodhammer," have also played with me on several shows/tours.
Influences: Specifically/Recently: Coyle & Sharpe, *Las Vegas Club*(Joe Kendall), John Prine, Paul Simon, Smog, The Mountain Goats, Deer Tick , Lee Hazelwood, Found Sound, Black Camero, New Mexico (The State), William Saroyan, A Crowd of Small Adventures, NatrixNatrix!!, Shivers, Longmont Potion Castle, and Jason Anderson, and French Quarter-----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------I can totally get behind the follwing (in no meaningful order): Tom Waits, Leo Kottke, Edward Lear, Daniel Johnston, The Shaggs, Karl Blau, Kenneth Higney and all "outsider music," Willie Nelson, The Books, Captain Beefheart, Viking Moses!!, Richard Farina, The Mapes, Pete Wingfield, My Sexual Dad, The Yearbook of Agriculture, TMBGs, The Modern Lovers, The Langley Schools Music Project, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Entomology, The Velvet Underground, GoGoGo Airheart, Kris Kristoferson, ELO, Little Wings, Tristeza, Dennis Driscoll, The Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti, Jim Reeves, Trans AM, Tortoise, Riders in the Sky, Charlemagne Palestine, Beachwood Sparks, The Skygreen Leopards, Bobby Birdman, Modest Mouse, Furry Lewis!!, Derrick Harriot, Lou Reed, Knife in the Water, Taken, Ornette Coleman, The Casket Lottery, Claude Bolling, Herbie Mann, David Bromberg, and Wes Montgomery...............
Sounds Like: Jacob Smigel with guitar strumming, children’s drums, bell piano, chord organ, and plaintive/angelic kazoo w/ reverb. Songs are gifts, and I shuffle along awkwardly to bear them. I like stories, songs that have stories behind them, and songs as stories. Sounds like BoomBox!! recording mixed with computer recording in a bedroom in the year 2003. Sounds like wooden music.
Record Label: www.jacobsmigel.com
Type of Label: Indie