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About Me

Most of the these recordings are of just jupe on different instruments. Jon Fegel helped a lot with recording and general inspiration. He also played banjo on "Candle Burning." .... I think I'm most happy musically these days when Jon and I are playing on the street. For music talk and stories, check the blog.

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Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Website: jupiterjenkins.com
Band Members: On these recordings Steve Jenkins sings, plays a Yamaha P80 keyboard, Martin D 18 acoustic guitar, Godin SD electric guitar, cheapo Blueridge 5 string banjo, maracas, Aspine wooden congas, marimba. They were recorded on Steve's Zoom 1044 MRS.
Influences: Frank Zappa, J.S. Bach, Debussy, Erik Satie, Erik Satie, Erik Satie, Hugo Distler, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Paul Hindemith, Edgar Varese, John Cage, Robert Schuman, Tom Waits, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Robert Johnson, Franz Schubert, Jelly Roll Morton, Dave Brubeck, G. F. Handel, Francois Couperin, Billie Holiday, Louie Couperin, Mozart, Chopin, Jonathon Fegel, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Modest Mouse, Alan Lomax, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Lenny Bruce, Sufjan Stevens, Dominico Scarlatti, Lenny Bruce, Dylan Thomas, John Adams, Neutral Milk Hotel, Phil Ochs, Duke Ellington, Osvaldo Golijov, Bertolt Brech, Kurt Weil, The Doors, Arvo Part, Ani Difranco, The Band, Beethoven, The Mississippi Sheiks, The Beatles, Jon Fegel, Bessie Smith, R. Crumb, Marcel Proust
Sounds Like: bad Paul Simon
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Early mention of the Delta Blues

" On a lonely night in 1903, W.C. Handy, the African American leader of a dance orchestra, got stuck waiting for a train in the hamlet of Tutwiler, Mississippi. With hours to kill and nowhere else to ...
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Fri, 19 May 2006 05:24:00 PST

playing music at church

Besides the kind of music in the recordings here, I do church music for money.This means every week I play in public.This week, I performed one of my own compositions. I used violin, flute and my Yama...
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Mon, 15 May 2006 09:46:00 PST

Bach and me

I really do love Bach. It seems like he's always been part of my musical landscape. I know this can't exactly be true. But today I was listening to some cantatas by him and I realized that I am drawn ...
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Sat, 13 May 2006 12:47:00 PST

Attending an organ recital

Yesterday I listened to a friend play a mini recital on an organ here in Holland Michigan. He played well. His pieces were Frescobaldi's third Canzona and Mendelssohn's sonata in f, op. 65. I've kno...
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Sat, 13 May 2006 05:04:00 PST

music stories and talk

I've decided to use this blog for pretty much music talk.
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Sat, 13 May 2006 04:41:00 PST

Voices of the dead

The two plastic circles go round and round.They are connected by a thin brown ribbon.I can hear the voice of my dead grandfather.He is preaching. He sings. The crowd moves in the stuffy Tennessee afte...
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Sat, 13 May 2006 04:46:00 PST

First entry

I'm very happy to be on myspace. I like the fact that people can come on the site and just click and listen. I want to make sure that I am making my music available on the web. Mostly what I do is pra...
Posted by jupiterjenkins on Fri, 12 May 2006 01:02:00 PST