Hunter Paye Music - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"His songwriting is detailed and clever... the guy can sing, and clearly takes an incredible amount of joy in doing so. It's music that comes from a pure place, and that goes an awful long way..."
Casey Jarmen, 'Willamette Week'
"... set to give hometown Portland a taste of roots-rock with more kick than the rest!"
Nathan Skidmore,The Oregonian
"...[Hunter's band] will make you feel grateful to be alive."
Jeff Rosenburg, The Willamette Week
"Hunterâ€™s music was exuberant â€” the perfect antidote to these depressing post-election days."
KPSU 'Hello Cruel World'
"[Hunter's music] may just save America from their homebound addiction to t.v. and d.v.d rentals, and bring them back to live music."
Jim Brunberg, Mississippi Studios Owner/songwriter
WELCOME! This page is surely like peeking through a small window of a large house. And just as we wear new clothes for a new day, here's how these songs sounded and were recorded on these particular days. I often drape these songs over my back and head out on tour around the country with other songwriters. They are lighter than they appear. Sometimes it is with the others in 'The Murdre Collective'. Sometimes these songs are a warm acoustic duo in the snows of Vermont. And sometimes they explode into a huge rock band with four vocalists. I am seeking collaborators to help create something that we will tour with, internationally . Be well, contact me, and stay tuned!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/8/2006
Influences: so many bands that it squeezes my brain to think about it, my college roomate Lane Gibson, some of these great Portland Oregon bands, Friends, lovers, when one becomes the other, the spectrum of moods and melancholies, the human race's victories, those who sing with honest emotion, acoustic troubadours, Love, my Vermont home and backwoods slow, slow, sloooww lifestyle, city possibilities, explosions of mind and heart during my college years (outside of the classroom), my first road trip across this beautiful country, my travels through S.E. Asia, the loss and finding of friends and love, and dreams of the unknown to come...that's absolutely all though.... nope, nothing else at all... oh, and Everything.
Sounds Like: barometric harmonies falling uphill through dried leaves
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new song Lyrics

The Wishlist The future had fooled us; we waited for it to arrive You can't get there by car; you won't make it without drive But you bought a suitcase, a roadmap, and a flash...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:15:00 PST

The Happy Birthday song may be licensed to someone, but the cake isnt.

The 'Happy Birthday song' may be licensed to someone,but the cake isn't.And it was sooooo good : ) And in the five man band, Where four were born in August,And two on August 26-We thank the crow...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:53:00 PST

Montreal, Vermont, Texas, oh my

There are so many 'Do you remember when we...' stories that I don't remember. How much of even these last two mon...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:55:00 PST

How Perspective Lost Its Umbrella

While flying over the handlebars of my bike, time spread it's arms, slowing everything around me. Suddenly, I was sailing over valleys that were once a...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:30:00 PST

Tales of the tour with Trevor Reichman and Raina Rose

Our whirlwind tour down the coast has landed us in amazing Austin for our September shows. The shows were set up with all three songwriters onstage, Trevor Reichman, Raina Rose and I, each lendin...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:45:00 PST

The Kerrville Folk Festival!!!

I had no idea. No idea that the 2200 miles just to get there would be a great adventure. No idea how good it would feel, playing around campfires everday for weeks, to ear...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

New song from tour

Sat before a judge and jury, a question was being tried Public pursued an answer, the question was thought to hide Prosecution pleaded, "Won't you answer to your calling, And kindly tell ...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:43:00 PST

inspired by Alela Diane's Funky-church performance...

I was never meant to hear what the ground told to the sky, but I happened to be standing in-between them at the time. See, one had come of song and season, made of bottled tears and laughte...
Posted by Hunter Paye Music on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:05:00 PST