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About Me

I write songs that climb mountains. They meditate on gravity, color and flight. They have gotten their hands as dirty as they get. They eat their bran cereal. They are good little songs. I was born and raised in the oldest mountains in the world. True to my French heritage, I eat a lot of soup. I once read the bible for 24 hours and then climbed on the roof of the post office to watch the stars and consult the Goddess. I lived in the desert and have never been the same. I love old-time dance music, gypsy swing, big earrings, racy ladies and tender men. I love to sing, and strum, and stomp. I play with The Blackberry Bushes and my Famous Band. I'll never turn down a hot toddy or bog wine. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

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Music:

Member Since: 6/6/2006
Band Website: jesraymond.com
Band Members: Jes Raymond- vocals, guitar, mandolin, clogs Jakob Breitbach- fiddle Morgan Thompson/Sean Bendickson/Joe Capocia- bass Kendl Winter-Clawhammer Banjo Lob (Strilla) Martin- three finger banjo Jeff Rygwelski- Harmonica
Influences: Nina Simone, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Regina Spektar, Sarah Harmer, Po Girl, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Martha Scanlon, The Crooked Jades, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Ditty Bops, The Pasties, The Blackberry Bushes, The Wailin Jennys, The Be Good Tanyas, Jolie Holland, Mike and Amy Finders, The New Prohibition Band, Kendl Winter, The Decembrists, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Asylum Street Spankers.
Sounds Like: Sounds like old-time in a warehouse loft. sounds like the radio that you thought you lost, but found the next summer in a neighbors treetop. Sounds like Racoons unionized. sounds like you just have to listen for yourself.
Record Label: Na-na Na-na Boo Boo Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Check out this event: The Shiftless Rounders, Jes Raymond,Kendl Winter

I have high hopes for this show in Georgetown on Thursday. I am playing with my great friend Kendl winter, and we are opening for The Shiftless Rounders, who are some of the best performers I know. It...
Posted by Jes Raymond on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:17:00 PST

sing song sing

I am listening to the album that really changed it all for me. What is it that I love about bluegrass music? Is it that it sounds like hounds and stars and mountains and church all wrapped into one? (...
Posted by Jes Raymond on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:46:00 PST

its been cold, and a long time

You know, it has been awhile since I have journeled my thoughts onto a public page. I just want to send a little letter to all my friends at once.It is so easy to feel sorry for yourself, and so painf...
Posted by Jes Raymond on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:44:00 PST

I rescue inanimate objects

I rescue inanimate objects. Sometimes I think I will transform them, the broken waterbottles that I saved because I thought I coud plant them full of daisies, the old snowboards I salvaged to make a b...
Posted by Jes Raymond on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:57:00 PST

quiet in the afternoon

Oh my friends, The morning has passed in a fog of cold and quiet, and now the afternoon sends in the usual plane noises and Happy barking away next door. In case you didn't know, Happy is an unidentif...
Posted by Jes Raymond on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:17:00 PST

what I see from the treehouse

This is the begining of a letter to all my wonderful friends. I am used to writing on paper, and I have often thought typing to be a ball and chain because I can not type nearly at the speed that I wo...
Posted by Jes Raymond on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:37:00 PST