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Jonathan Barnes

nashville, Tennessee
33 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter
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"Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground."
BIOGRAPHY
I grew up in a musical home, playing bluegrass and I quickly moved from there to folk, blues, soul, southern rock, jazz, and pop music. My songs are compared to Jay Farrar, Mark Kozelek, and Jeff Tweedy -- i try to make music that's honest, sincere, progressive folk rock. My second self-released album Medication (2007) was recorded at Smoakstack Studios in Nashville.
LEVEL
novice
GENRES
Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Folk
Contact
Management: jonathan@barnesmusic.com
Publishing: N/A
Label: N/A
Booking: N/A
Administrative: jonathan barnes
P.R.O.
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INSTRUMENTS
bass / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / keyboard / mandolin / piano / vocals
INFLUENCES
clarence white, tony rice, duane allman, george harrison, john lennon, paul mccartney, jeff tweedy, jay farrar, caleb stine, mark kozelek, robert zimmerman
DAY JOB
Healthcare Sales / Management
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to tv
I WRITE:
For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
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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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Hey Jonathan,

We got your song on the home page -- check it out!

thanks,

AS Staff
07/21/2008 11:16 PM
Hey Jonathan,

Welcome to American Songspace! The only network for only songwriters.com

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Write On,

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07/16/2008 03:04 PM