Clifton, Colorado
28 Years Old
Lyricist

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"We are ugly but we have the music"

BIOGRAPHY

My book of poetry, "Fascists, Fanatics & Escapists", available at www.gjredpill.org. In April '09 I won the Mark Fischer Poetry Award for "Thirty Years Till Birth", one of the poems from it. I won the 2009 American Songwriter Lyrics Contest Grand Prize so Rodney Crowell (who is a very awesome person) and I have been working on a song. My poetry is available online at Thieves Jargon, Madswirl, and Opium Poetry 2.0. My fiction can be found in The Delinquent out of the UK and my non-fiction has appeared in The Denver Voice as well as other places. I record music under the moniker Watermelon.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Alternative Country, Folk, Experimental

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Confluence Media Collective, independent publishing company

Contact

Label: American Freakout
Administrative: Connie Murillo

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / electric guitar / vocals

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

-Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, 2009 -Grand Prize: 2009 American Songwriter Lyrics Contest

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

When I was in New Orleans volunteering after Katrina I wrote and recorded an album on an ancient tape recorder I found in the school we used for volunteer housing. I had very little time to do this, so all of the songs are first takes and very demo-ish, but another volunteer, Bob Makela, directed a video for the song "Heart of Darkness". I only gave the album to my friends and have no further plans for it or any of the songs.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield: Look At Miss Ohio

“Things are starting to get weird.”

Jessica Lea Mayfield, whose Nonesuch Records debut Tell Me is in stores now, is on the phone from her home in Ohio and we’re having a good laugh over her recent success. It’s beer o’clock on both ends of the phone, the last interview in a long week of talking to complete strangers for the two of us.

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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.”