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About Me

Based an hour west of Toronto, Canada, Jay Linden is a semi-reclusive legend (1 inch = 1/2 mile) who's been making music for 40 years. He writes and sings haunting, memorable slices of time and space firmly rooted in a folk sensibility. His debut CD, Satchel, is now available.

Find me at http://jaylinden.com .

Long bio is at http://jaylinden.com/bio/ . It's a good read and it's not that long.

Buy the CD at CD Baby -- listen to 2-minute clips of all the songs first!

Or for Canadians (and others), check all the CD buy options at http://jaylinden.com/buy_the_cd

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: jaylinden.com
Influences: Townes Van Zandt ... Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer ... Mary Chapin Carpenter ... Hoagy Carmichael ... Willie P. Bennett ... Carter Family ... Jay Farrar/Son Volt ... Emmylou Harris ... Woody Guthrie ... Johnny Cash ... Colin Linden ... Gillian & David ... lots of good local Ontario songwriters and musicians ... tons of others!

And a special thanks to some fellow veteran songwriters, some of whom, like me, have taken extended periods of time away from playing and have come back the better for it, including, but certainly not limited to:

David Fougere Rosemary Phelan Tom Mitchell Rick Keating Sam Larkin Doug "Duke" Lang Marianne Girard Don Freed Lori Yates Duane Rutter Patricia Belen Thank you for the goose bumps you always give me.
Record Label: Self-released
Type of Label: None

My Blog

CD's Up!

CD ("Satchel", my long-awaited debut) is now officially released. My main MySpace page contains links to buy it from CD Baby, or to go to my "official" Website for different ways of getting it. ...
Posted by Jay Linden on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:19:00 PST

Greetings. Salutations too.

Hi All. I keep my blog on my own website, at http://jaylinden.com. Just wander over and click "blog". I'm not great at posting frequently, but I try to get something on every week or two....
Posted by Jay Linden on Mon, 29 May 2006 04:24:00 PST