James Sasser. Portland musician,
entertainer, recording artist.
Alt Country Rock Americana
James Sasser

(e.g., "New York guitar player" or "Beatles influenced drummer")

Musician - Marc Barnhill

• Age 39 | Musician | Astoria, NY

I'm a singer-songwriter with a solo CD and a back catalog of dozens of original songs. Check out www.marcbarnhill.com for a sense of what I'm about.

• Already on My Way

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• Brother of Mine (Till Only Animals Remain)

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• Wayfarer of the Brine

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• Smoke and Rattles

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• All in My Own Good Time

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• Shawl

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• Summer Fell

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• Voids in the Wreckage

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Guitar

Acoustic, Folk, Singer/Songwriter

Accordion, Backup Vocals, Banjo, Bass Guitar,
Cello, Dobro, Drum Kit, Guitar,
Harmonica, Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Organ,
Percussion, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet,
Upright Bass, Viola, Violin

Acoustic, Country, Folk, Rockabilly,
Singer/Songwriter

James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, David Wilcox, Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, Nick Drake, Jules Shear

• I frequented the cafe and club circuit alone a couple of years back, playing at CBGB, The Bitter End, The Listening Room/Caffe Vivaldi, DT-UT, The Psychic Cafe, The Underground Lounge, The Creek and the Cave, The Four-Faced Liar, and The Baggot Inn. I released a CD that got good online reviews, and I'm currently with a band-in-progress called The Sorely Missed.
  
  

• I play acoustic guitar, and right now I'm mainly looking for a guitarist/harmony vocalist (preferably female), a keyboard player, and a drummer who can play congas or other light percussion, but I'm open to any and all other instruments for the CD and live shows. The style of music is in the Indigo Girls / James Taylor / Jules Shear area. My songs tend to be lyrically dense but are musically pretty basic (all standard G C D F Am progressions, though I do use a capo so shifts will happen), so you don't need to be astonishingly versatile.
  
  While I'd love for the band to achieve some kind of success, I do have a real job and a family, so the main idea here is to have fun and keep things casual and low-key. I'd pay you for your CD recording time and split any pay or tips from performances, but I'm certainly not going into this expecting financial rewards so please don't delude yourself; I'm a songwriter who needs a backing band, and you're a backing musician who needs a songwriter. Above all, the point is to have fun, so personality is also important; I'm easygoing and humorous and would be happy if a general friendship grew out of the experience as well.
  

• Smokes: Nope
  
• Drinks: Nope
  
• Tolerates Smoking: Don't Care
  
• Tolerates Drinking: Don't Care