Fayetteville, Arkansas
31 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"If you cant say something nice, dont say it at all"

BIOGRAPHY

i write, i sing, i play, i eat avacodos, and i drink insane amounts of black coffee.. Born in Little Rock AR, reside in Fayetteville AR and split time with Nashville TN. Releasing my second record entitled Heart and Soul Closet Tapes in June 2009, a follow up from The Well Runs Dry in 2008. Writing poetry that fits into melodies is my passion on this earth. I tend to write mostly about God and heartbreak, those seem to be the two most influental things in my life.

Contact

Management: jamar@level6entertainment.com
Publishing: dave@level6entertainment.com
Label: Level Six Entertainment
Music Supervisor: Dave Wilson Productions
Booking: artistzachryan@gmail.com
Administrative: artistzachryan@gmail.com

INSTRUMENTS

bass / congas / drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / piano / vocals

INFLUENCES

Elvis, Otis Redding, Johnny Cash, Ron Sexsmith, Susan Tedeschi, Levon Helm, Sam Cooke, Ryan Adams

DAY JOB

rock star

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

It's my second job

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

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Barnabas Award, CAC elementary school 1990.

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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,