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About Me

There is only one way to describe singer/songwriter Ben Jordan: journeyman. For the last 13 years Ben has traveled the country listening, learning & playing. His voyage has taken him to several of the country's musical hot beds (including New York City, Nashville, New Orleans, San Francisco & Boulder, CO) where he had the privilege of befriending some rising stars, and established vets, including Derek Trucks, members of The String Cheese Incident, The Slip, Warren Haynes, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Jazz Mandolin Project, Adam Levy (of Norah Jones' Handsome Band), and Brad Rice (Ryan Adams, Son Volt & Keith Urban).
The musical odyssey for this Boulder, CO resident began at the age of four when his mother bought Ben a drum for his birthday. This innocent gift began a love affair with music whose fires seem to burn brighter within the songwriter every year. After years of drumming, Ben began studying piano & continued to play both instruments until the age of 18, when he decided to head to the National Guitar Summer Workshop. There he established friendships with Brad Barr (The Slip), Eric Krasno (Soulive), & Adam Levy (Norah Jones) that confirmed what Ben Jordan had always felt: he was born to play music.
A gifted instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Ben Jordan has recorded several solo albums and is currently rehearsing with his new band in Boulder, CO. The Heathens will be touring throughout 2007.
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Member Since: 2/7/2005
Band Members: Ben Jordan & The Heathens is:

Jess Mefford(Sissy)-Vocals & Piano
Ben Jordan-Guitars & Vocals
Jack Leahy-Pedal Steel, Lap Steel, Guitar, Vocals

Influences: The 'Mats, Johnny Cash, Son Volt, Tom Waits, Neil Young, The Ramones, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, The Descendants, Hank Williams Sr., Ted Hawkins, Drag The River, Avail, R.E.M., M.Ward, Kelly Joe Phelps, Jesse Malin, Johnny Pisano, Ryan Adams, The Boss, and pretty much anyone else who has ever said "Get in the van and go!!"
Sounds Like: Johnny Cash, Hank Sr., Tom Waits, & Ted Hawkins having a conversation in a calmly burning building
Record Label: DIY, but not above being courted.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A birthday, an anniversary and a song

Thursday at Trilogy was a real great time so if you were there thanks for making it a great night for us. The last year has been awesome all three of us have come a long way as friends, musicians and ...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:14:00 PST

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I'd like to say thanks to Sarah Levine and George Inai for helping put together a great night of music at The Lions Lair last night. Thanks to Jess & Jack for being the great people that they are. and...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:42:00 PST

HEY OSCAR WTF????!!!

Short rant.....I am REALLY REALLY pissed at "The Academy" for leaving Brad Renfro out of their memorial montage in the Oscars. Classless, utterly classeless.
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:30:00 PST

TURN OUT THE BRIGHT LIGHTS

Ok I wasn't gonna write anything for the first guy, not cos I don't like his work, it just seemed like maybe I shouldn't. Then Heath Ledger took his leave and now I don't think I can keep my mouth shu...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:34:00 PST

do I really need to have one.....ok kumquats

or loquats are pretty cool too, but really I just thought I'd stop by and test my typing skills. So the holidays have passed and I survived 'em (barely). I think all in all it was a good year, a new b...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:38:00 PST

Dale from the Boulder Weekly

We (being the band) would like to give huge thanks to Dale from the Boulder Weekly, for going above and beyond the call of duty, finding previously unheard music, and giving our show a place of promin...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:18:00 PST

Nashville summary

Ok now that I'm home and detoxing, I'll recap what I remember.....and yeah I'll post the song I wrote after I re-record it appearently my computer didn't like the song and therefore didn't record it.....
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:36:00 PST

Nashville part2

ok......shaking off the cobwebs after a couple days of sin......ouch! ahhh fuck man I can't do this right now.....I did right an ew song yesterday...an ew WTF? will re-record and post tomorrow sometim...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:32:00 PST

nashville part 1

ok this is an experiment....possibly in futility.....I sat awake all night....until the moon made the driveway like afternoon.pre-flight jitter? probably not Mostly just watching youtube....knowing i'...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:25:00 PST

NASHVEGAS!!!

man I am so psyched! 3 more days and I'm on a plane to Nashville. I get to hang with my good friends Allen T. and Heath Haynes whom I haven't seen I quite a while. Gonna play a ton of music, write som...
Posted by Ben Jordan & The Heathens on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:05:00 PST