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Corey Jackson

About Me

"The Sleepiest Boy In New York" My Thoughts On Why I Cannot Write (Live) 2008 Tigerlily (Live) 2008 Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Live) 2008 Hymnus from MARS HILL (2005) Quis Separabit?

Add to My Profile | More Videos Quis Separabit? (2006)

Add to My Profile | More Videos Something When She Smiles (Live) 2006

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Music:

Member Since: 11/04/2006
Band Website: www.coreyjackson.com
Band Members: Corey Jackson: Vocals, Piano, Guitar
Influences: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Jacques Cousteau, Danny Elfman, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Erik Satie, Django Reinhardt, Wes Anderson, Alexander Rodchenko, French New Wave Cinema, Klezmer, NASA, Tim Burton, Raymond Scott, Amelie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Admiral Byrd, Gattaca, Bob Dylan, Alfred Hitchcock, WWII History, National Geographic, Tom Waits and Vince Guaraldi
Sounds Like: Listen or buy on iTunes:http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/artist/corey-jackson/id 193243138
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Check out my cover of Beyonce's "Halo"!

http://coreyjackson.com/songs/Halo-wav.mp3
Posted by on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:03:00 GMT

New Song Video! "Like Lovers Do" Check it out!

There is a time, love, to fight for timeAnd what of lifes tangled vines?Love is a young thing and while its new  Lets meet like lovers doHear how they bustle, the maddening crowdIf no...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:07:00 GMT

New Song Video! "When Will You Come Back To Me?"

Hey, guys. I need your help to decide what songs should go on the new EP. So check out this new song and let me know what you think! I dont want to be your friendI ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:36:00 GMT

New Song! "I've Got Your Number (So Why Don't I Use It?)"

The city I live in is a provincial townThis city life can really get you down, downIf we get down to it, its an awful blightI need some excitement to get me through this nightIve got y...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:28:00 GMT

My Artistic Manifesto!

Two years ago, a friend of mine named Yuri Star, who serves as a sort of life and career adviser to those wise enough to listen, told me in his office Corey, I know you do music but Ive never read a...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:52:00 GMT

The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)

The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966) This record is my favorite record of all time. No record has had so much influence on me as a musician, songwriter and arranger. But I cant expect everyone to un...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:27:00 GMT

Haikus, Beatniks, and Bongos

For Wednesday, I had assigned my Composition II class a short haiku poem and a definition of the form. At the class start, I explained to them that the term was originally called hokkuand that the 19...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:09:00 GMT

The Valley of the Shadow of Dread-lyrics

The dark can seem as if a Wild West townWhere only fathers walk as giants walk the groundIn dreams of little boys made cowboys and menThere danger and adventure both await withinIts a mystery where b...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:08:00 GMT

MIXING THE RECORD: DAY 6

On the morning of day six, my last day, I arose at eight and got cleaned up in my humble little cabin's bathroom. Throughout the week, I had been playing a little game with the maid since I had thrown...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:08:00 GMT

ZULU ZERO ECHO (WHERE BATS FEAR TO FLY)

If I was a vampire, then here's what I'd doI'd wait until night fell and come looking for youI kissed you in earnest, I kissed you in partNow some call it patience but I call it art Zulu Zer...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:34:00 GMT