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A Punch Of pacifist


32 Years Old
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"there's a kitchen knife on the shelf"
LEVEL
aspiring
GENRES
Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Traditional Country
P.R.O.
OTHER
INSTRUMENTS
banjo / acoustic guitar / harmonica
INFLUENCES
Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Hayden Desser
DAY JOB
electrician
I AM INTERESTED IN
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal
I WRITE:
It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
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OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS
Back-up Vocals on Optirosa's song Vinca Minor off his 2008 album The Trial of Henrich Burden Broken And Smoken by Old Busted Bones - Josh Schmelke produced
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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