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Dang Head

I remember how the darkness doubled.

About Me

Dang Head is Jamie Smith (and whomever else shows up), a former member of Denver's d.biddle, a former member of New Mexico's the Lords of Howling, and a former member of San Francisco's Granfaloon Bus, and an occasional collaborator with Portland, OR, outfits Rollerball and the VI Foot Sloth, New Mexico's the Art of Flying, and Denver's A Dog Paloma and Porlolo.---------------------------------------------Folk-gr ounded exuberance with startling elements of random noise might best describe Nounsville, the fifteen-song offering from Montana transplant J-ME Smith, aka Dang Head. Fans of musical deconstruction could argue that the ornery fella is merely skippin' down the junkyard path of poetic stray animals with a butterfly net -- and they'd be right. But the critters, duly nabbed (with the help of a few long-lost members from Questa, New Mexico's Lords of Howling), deserve a zoo of their own, and they get one on Smith's homegrown Discobolus imprint. It's an arresting batch of enjoyable songs, all right, strewn with dadaist humor, the occasional broken instrument and that unique mix of blessings an curses that can't help but glitter in the dust. --Westword

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2003
Band Website: this is pretty much it.com or, soon, danghead.com
Band Members: Jamie (me), Scott Lindsey, Brendan Hayden, and some other people sometimes. You never know. ... whenever one or more are gathered....
Influences: joy, love, abundance, poverty, anger, skepticism, growing up in a repressive, fat and lazy, redneck shit-hole of a town, obsession, hero worship, passion, truth, good people, real friends, danger, natural beauty, wood, stone, trees, kids, water, ships, butterflies, rainbows, goats, drama, trauma, crazy grandpa and crazy grandma, kites, home births and mid-wives, apple computers, hardwood floors that give off splinters, skateboards, punk rock, new mexico and old mexico, balkan brass band music, johns: fante, fahey and prine, new physics, old psychics, analog tape machines, shane deleon, thelonious, extreme love, devastating heartbreak, debt, open tunings, woodwinds, friends forever, larry yes, the rolling stones, the roland chorus-echo, rahsaan roland kirk, the barn, all the lords of howling, all the art of flying, tight beautiful vocal harmonies, harmony, mr. show, preacher's kidness, bones, elephants, culhane, ptolemy, jabes, marquee moon, jacob needleman and sfsu, kgnu, kvcu, taxi driving, bill brooks, bowie, souled american, bill monroe, sonic youth, savage republic, camper van beethoven, mission of burma, sleep, oaxaca, merida, and tulum with d for sure, vitamin c, depression, joy, fear, sex or lack thereof, health insurance or want thereof, the pedal steel guitar, confusion, rollerball, vi foot sloth, d. biddle, todd costanza and granfaloon bus, 1988, freedom, love, evol, pigeons, mexican dogs, space heaters, space stations, space, the akg 414, richard and linda thompson, my eternal crush on lucinda williams, eugene chadbourne, amy goodman, being an anarchist trapped in a capitalist's body, women, beautiful women, my beautiful woman, love, death, art, poverty, art poverty, folk music, noise folk music, most music, swannfest, the indian summers in boulder, colorado, at grant place, terrifying leaps, stunning possibilities, and the copy of the remastered Beggars Banquet that Jeff gave me for my birthday, and the version of "Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain" by Souled American.
Sounds Like: wood, wire, and pipes
Record Label: North Pole Records, Portland, Oregon
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Very Sweet Mention...

Denver Post, 8/1/08, prior to the Denver Post Underground Music Showcase: Artists you may not know yet, but will...7. Dang Head: One of Denver's best-kept secrets is Jamie Smith, a singer-songwriter w...
Posted by Dang Head on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:37:00 PST

Updated Discography, etc.

Jamie Smith, Dang Head, and related Discography2008: Dang Head- Shipwreck- (Coming Soon!)2008: Dang Head- Outakes of the last 15 years (Coming Soon!)2008: Jamie Smith- More Film Music!2007: Jamie Smit...
Posted by Dang Head on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 05:20:00 PST

nice things

Hey friends, here are a couple of really nice things that some local music writers here in Denver have written after coming to see some solo shows that I have done recently. While it feels good to hav...
Posted by Dang Head on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST