The Tape

Jayber Crow @ Hotel Cafe July 17

Written by willshoob on Thursday, 2 of July , 2009 at 4:16 pm

The variety of live music is my favorite part of LA. There is always something to do, with the different types of music that come to our fair city each and every night. In two weeks from Friday, Jayber Crow will be making their way from the midwest to grace us in LA at Hotel Cafe. I really didn’t know much about the band until I got an email from one of them a couple of days ago. Here’s a little bit about the folk duo:

Zach Hawkins and Pete Nelson are about as Midwestern as they come. Both grew up in small towns with a few stoplights and plenty of corn-fields. The duo are known for their live shows, “trying to give each audience member a personal invitation to each song.” Despite their deep roots in the middle of the country, these guys have been singing about heading west for a long time. The song “Eugene, Oregon” (from 2005’s The Farmer and the Nomad EP) finds the band imagining a half-continent-long march “toward the setting sun,” until the dry land runs out at the Pacific Ocean. After years of playing the song, Jayber Crow is finally getting around to making good on their promise as they embark upon an eleven-city tour through Washington, Oregon, and California.

The track I’m going to share today is “O My God When I Drop Dead”… A two-minute, up tempo track that has some country undertones, but definitely leans towards the ‘folk’ side of things. One thing I really like about this track is how it balances the fine line of simplicity. The song is very simple, but they add some hand claps and tambourine to spice things up without it interfering with the focus of the track, the vocals.

Make sure to catch them on tour, and download “O My God When I Drop Dead”… It’s a fantastic track.

Jayber Crow- O My God When I Drop Dead

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