Damien Jurado

Whats the consensus on this guy. I like him.

really like "caught in the trees"

always thought "Matinee" is a really sweet song. he can be v. depressing though.

yeah he is more depressing than Mark Kozelek

He was amazing doing a solo acoustic set at primavera two years back but i don't seem to have stumbled across whichever album he must have been playing from yet.

was it caught in the trees, that was his 2008 album.

he's been great live, lately, but i've resonated a little less with his last few lps. Ghost of David is just incredible, there's something genius in the very early noisy material, but honestly almost all of his albums are pretty great. he's one of the artists for whom i own the most records.

really surprised that there was not a thread on him before.

New record "Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son" streaming at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259143049/first-listen-damien-jurado-brothers-and-sisters-of-the-eternal-son.

This guy seemed to have gone under my own personal radar until his 2012 release, Maraqopa, which was one of my favorite albums released that year. I heard the name before, figured he had released a few albums before that one, only to just now see he had released 11 albums prior to Maraqopa!

I bring him up now cause I see he has a new one being released next week, called Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. Haven't heard anything on it yet but pretty stoked nonetheless.

Anyone else a fan?

ha ha, missed Treefell's post. I'm slow. Will check that out later this weekend.

Damien Jurado is a stud. His earlier stuff was more stripped down; he's a very honest and revealing songwriter overall. There are some songs about struggling with mental illness in his catalog that leave me in tears every time. Way underrated methinks.

Liked him more before the R Swift era. Haven't heard the new one (will check it out, always have time for this guy), but the last few were so overworked and conspicuously 'produced' I rarely played them. They're the sorta records where you don't so much hear songs as much as "decisions made in the studio."

Agree that his latest stuff is too produced. His songs work best when raw.

I don't know anything about this dude, but I've been hearing "Silver Timothy" on (blechh) the local NPR station every day and I really like it.

"Run everything through 60s sounding reverb" is a the shortcut to my heart though.

really like this album, not sure how it took me so long to discover this guy given how deep in my wheelhouse this is

New album 'Visions of Us on Land' out March 18

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/damien_jurado_sees_visions_of_us_on_land_with_new_lp

new song 'Exit 353'

he was really hilarious live

this has to be a contender for ILM's Most Good Songs Over The Past 20 Years / Shortest Thread Ratio Award

<3 this guy. He's currently doing an instagram live performance https://www.instagram.com/damienjuradomusic

been listening to The Horizon Just Laughed (2018) a lot lately, think it's easily his best

i’m sure he has no interest but someday i’d like him to regather in song

because ‘i break chairs’ is a great record

and ‘paper wings’ is a great song

Really enjoyed this session for KEXP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXa0CamaXVA

Agree that ‘The Horizon Just Laughed’ is very good. He’s been on a good run lately.

THJL is fantastic. I doubt I've let a full week go without listening to it at least once since it came out.

I used to love Jurado in the late 90s/early 2000s. I should listen to his newer stuff. Funny seeing this thread about two days after I stumbled upon his "What's in my Bag" on YouTube. He seems to be a really good guy.

Was thinking I wrote another Columbus OH show preview, going more into details of another album (something about slippin' around a small town), but can't find it---this is when he was touring behind his 2010 offering---my, I was a bit hyper w the late-night listening & typing:

Damien Jurado & Saint Bartlett’s Band
Monday @ The Summit
Americana rocker Damien Jurado’s “Saint Bartlett” creates an intimately shape-shifting aura around viney, veiny voices and visions growing back together. We’re led and left to make connections between and within songs. But lines like, “Rachel, I’m sorry to call/I can’t sleep at all/The closet’s unfamiliar/Your parents will be home soon” arrive on time. In concert, Jurado’s tour mates Kay Kay And The Weathered Underground also appear as Saint Bartlett’s Band, a discreetly orbiting chamber orchestra who further explore the sonic adventures of his soulful, or at least soul-full, sincerely sketchy characters.