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Jay Harris and the Transceivers

About Me

John Cash’s advice to young songwriters was to take their first hundred songs and burn them. In Jay’s case they’re not cinder - they’ve been played live hundreds of times, and demoed; he’s spent the last ten years fronting his bands and playing solo, as well as working as a sideman for other artists - contributing vocals, guitars and lapsteel. This work has helped to build a growing legion of supporters in and outside of the music industry. But the old adage, ‘You’re only as good as your last record’ is an apt one here. With the release of Sundumb though, things are set to change.The 10 songs careen headlong into the suburban landscapes of the 1970’s, the same neighbourhoods once inhabitated by Tom Petty and Elvis Costello, and like both of these artists, Jay too is mapping new lands out on the edge of town. The songs score the tragedy that underlines the modern human condition, he is a narrator who channels the stories we thought we’d lost.Sundumb was recorded at the Bathouse Studio. The band features Bazil Donovan and Bob Packwood of Blue Rodeo, Cam Giroux (By Divine Right, Weeping Tile, and Violet Archers), and Rob Gillet; as well as contributing artists Paul Langlois, Oh Susanna and Bryden Baird. It was mixed with Darryl Neudorf at Operation Northwoods, and mastered with Peter Moore at the E room.In attempts to foster greater brand recognition Jay has played shows with artists including: Joel Plaskett, Jim Bryson, Justin Rutledge, Dan Bern, Oh Susanna, Luke Doucet, Sarah Harmer, The Wailing Jenny’s, Mick Taylor, Kathleen Edwards and the Doobie Brothers.

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Member Since: 02/06/2006
Band Website: www.jayharris.ca
Band Members: Cam Giroux - Drums; Bazil Donovan - Bass; Bob Packwood - Piano/Keyboards; Rob Gillet - Guitar; Jay Harris - Guitar/Lapsteel/Vox.
Influences: You
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Four - Mixing

Four  Tuesday February 5, 2008   Fat Tuesday, Lent, Super Tuesday, under more southern stars yet inextricably linked - economically, historically; geo- phallically positioned on the tip of the ...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 18:39:00 GMT

Six - Mixing

Six  Thursday February 7, 2008 Banks, the faucet of the economic schema, similar to a municipal service, charged with certain tasks, and reasoned in risk assessment and aversion. A closed loop system...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:53:00 GMT

Five - Mixing

Five  Wednesday February 6, 2008 Storms, hurricanes, the death toll rises in the US. CNN is covering its every angle, but with the primaries having just wrapped-up, and now nature's catastrophe there...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Three - Mixing

Three  Monday February 4, 2008 Tombstone grey day in February; a Monday no less. The balls are slowly making their ways up the hill. It's the right way to do it, but it's the 3rd time going through ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:17:00 GMT

Two - Mixing

Two  Sunday February 3, 2008 Its coffee and chat time again, early risers up with their ideas communicating, and in so doing, peeling back the thoughts that brought them here, back to a simple inter...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:00 GMT

One - Mixing

Saturday February 2, 2008 Maybe it's the whole 'one thing, begets the next', some sort of winding path that pisses off behind a drive shed, easy to forget. But when one observes, he sees contained in...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:58:00 GMT

Ode to '06

I tend toward sloth naturally; it's my being a 9 on the Enneagram that prepares me for this; so blame it on the Enneagram. Another year has listed itself on my dance card; waited its turn; two-stepped...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:14:00 GMT

Bubba has left the building

Bubba's Gone. Tripps Tyrone Harris  (AKA, Bubba; the Lump), age 15, died at home on September 19, 2006 surrounded by his family.   Born in Price Edward Country on July 29, 1991 and raised in a...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:11:00 GMT

Myspace

  Yeah okay, so the myspace thing: Ive been lurkin around for some time; visiting lots of sites et cetera, and really diggin it as a place to inter-connect. So to that end, I guess here Iam...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:47:00 GMT