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American musician

Jason Webley
Jason Webley in 2006 at the Oregon Land Fair
Background information
Born	(1974-06-01) June 1, 1974 (age 47)
Origin	Everett, Washington, United States
Genres	Folk, punk, experimental, Gypsy punk, folk punk
Instruments	vocals, piano accordion, guitar, piano
Labels	Eleven Records
Associated acts	Evelyn Evelyn Big Lilliputian Dipper Dipper Toast
Website	http://www.jasonwebley.com/

Musical artist

Jason Webley is an American musician known for his sincere fusion of folk, experimental, and culling music. Webley plays the guitar and squeeze box, sometimes providing percussion past stomping or shaking a plastic vodka canteen filled with coins. Webley began his career performing solo, but has collaborated with a broad range of artists. He has also organized several commemorative concerts and events memorializing everything from tragedies in his hometown of Everett, Washington to tomatoes.

Early life [edit]

Webley is originally from Everett, Washington.^[i] In high school, Webley played in a punk rock band called Moral Minority. He picked up the squeeze box in 1996 in his terminal year in college at the University of Washington when he was function of a functioning of Bertolt Brecht'southward play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and wrote a couple of songs for the play on the accordion.^[2] He subsequently recalled, "I was just a geeky kid; squeeze box came later on. Information technology's since playing squeeze box that I've become cool. I used to be a geek with an electric guitar. I had a guitar and played in punky bands and I had a computer. I sequenced stuff. I was much geekier."^[iii]

Career [edit]

In the spring of 1998 Webley quit his twenty-four hours task and began busking.^[4] Later on that year he recorded the anthology Viaje in his kitchen and independently released it. In 1999, Webley released Confronting the Dark, which would become one of his most popular albums. Against the Nighttime includes "Last Vocal" and "Dance While the Sky Crashes Down," which would be staples of his alive performances for the next 2 decades.

Webley's outset four albums were released or re-released past Springman Records, merely he now owns his own record label, Eleven Records, and sells his merchandise via website or at concerts.

Webley plays diverse instruments on his albums, including guitar, accordion, piano, marimba, and glockenspiel; when he tours, however, he usually only brings his guitar, an accordion, and a vodka bottle filled with coins from around the world. He has been known to do brusk tours with a backing band. Webley has performed at several festivals, including Called-for Man, Glastonbury Festival, VanFest, and the Oregon Country Off-white.^[5] His sound has been compared to Tom Waits,^[six] Vladimir Vysotsky,^[7] Leonard Cohen,^[half-dozen] and Bob Dylan.^[8]

Webley's music and live performances reflect his eclectic personality. Webley has a fascination with the number 11.^[nine] References to the number can exist constitute throughout his discography. He too performed a special commemorative concert on November 11th, 2011.

Webley was also once known for incorporating vegetables into his performances.^[10] He once owned a late 1990s model Toyota Corolla that had been converted into a giant tomato. It was painted ruby-red, and had a green fiberglass stem attached to the roof of the car (until the stem was stolen).^[11] He reported at a concert that his beloved Toyota had "passed away" around January 18, 2011. Webley's vegetable fixation is no longer a main element of his live performances.

From 2000 to 2004 Webley pretended to die every Halloween but to be born in the leap.^[6]

In May 2014 Jason Webley performed the songs 'Hope To The Moon' equally well as 'These and More Than These' by Joseph Fink; while doing a series of live shows with the prove Welcome to Night Vale, as well every bit writing an original song as the character Louie Blasco on the podcast.^[12]

In 2011, Webley scaled back his touring schedule and started focusing more on other projects. He yet performs annually at some venues such as the Oregon State Fair.

Monsters of Piano accordion [edit]

Webley organized the Monsters of Accordion tour, an all-accordion extravaganza that took place on the West Coast.^[13] The bout came together when Webley was invited to play at an accordion store in Oakland, and met two Bay Area accordionists, Daniel Ari and Aaron Seeman. They decided to do an accordion-only tour, which was the first Monsters of Accordion.^[14] The tour has since featured such accordionists every bit Corn Mo, Geoff Berner, Amy Denio, Marking Growden, (former Gogol Bordello fellow member) Stevhen Iancu, and Eric Stern (frontman of Vagabond Opera).

Margaret [edit]

In 2014 Webley released, Margaret, a collaborative album commemorating Margaret Rucker, the daughter of a prominent Everett family unit. The album was sparked by Webley's fascination with Rucker'south pyramidal tomb and his friend'southward discovery of ane of Rucker'south scrapbooks in a California dumpster.^[15] ^[16] The album was released forth with a book and 6 live shows were performed upwards and down the West Coast. The projection was funded via a Kickstarter Campaign.^[17]

One Hundred Years Ago Tomorrow [edit]

In 2016 Webley once again turned to crowdfunding to co-create an album centered on Everett's history. This time the focus was the Everett Massacre. The album commemorated the centennial of the massacre. Information technology was performed live at the historic Everett Theater one twenty-four hour period earlier the centennial (hence the championship, One Hundred Years Agone Tomorrow).^[eighteen] ^[xix]

Flotsam River Circus [edit]

In 2017, Webley began organizing a floating circus on the Willamette River. After his male parent became ill the projection was delayed for two years. In the summer of 2019, the Flotsam River Circus finally set sail from Corvallis, Oregon after performing at the Oregon Country Fair. Shows were performed at waterfront parks with a bootleg barge serving equally the stage.^[twenty] In August of 2021 the circus set sail over again with a serial of performances in the greater Seattle area.^[21]

Collaborations [edit]

Webley has announced that there volition be a series of 11 collaborative projects between him and his songwriter friends, and each recording will be limited to 1,111 numbered copies. He has thus far collaborated with Jay Thompson, Andru Bemis, Reverend Peyton, and Sxip Shirey.^[22]

In September 2007, Webley collaborated with Amanda Palmer to release Evelyn Evelyn's debut EP Elephant Elephant via Webley's Eleven Records.

Subsequently a December 2007 concert at Hampshire College, Webley and Hampshire student Professor Science collaborated on a song well-nigh mittens known as "The Mitten Opera". Webley repeated this tradition the following ii nights, first later on a concert at Bard College, where he and a grouping of students collaborated on a song called "Clown Car to Mulberry", then at Sarah Lawrence College, where Webley and virtually the entire audience performed the hardcore punk-inspired "Bad Milk". All three songs are available on YouTube.

At a concert at The Saint in Asbury Park, New Jersey in Jan 2009, Webley was joined on stage by Calamity Menagerie to perform "Means To Love" and "Quite Opposite" – a song he rarely plays at live shows.

In December 2011, Webley appear the intention to make his back catalogue available as paid downloads online on the website BandCamp.

In February 2018, Webley announced the release of the new Amanda Palmer music video "Judy Blume" which he directed.^[23]

Discography [edit]

Solo Studio albums [edit]

Live albums [edit]

Collaborative Studio albums [edit]

Collaborative extended plays [edit]

Eleven Saints (with Jay Thompson) (2006)
How Big Is Tacoma (with Andru Bemis) (2006)
ii Bottles of Wine (with Reverend Peyton) (2007)
Elephant Elephant (with Amanda Palmer) (2007)
Days With Y'all (with Sxip Shirey) (2009)
Hockey Star (with Oliver Orion and Caitlin Rippey as Large Little Dipper Dipper) (2010)
Sketches for the Musical Jib (with Amanda Palmer) (2016)

Singles [edit]

Electrical Blanket (with Amanda Palmer) (2018)
House of Eternal Return (with Amanda Palmer) (2018)

Bibliography [edit]

von Buhler, Cynthia; Palmer, Amanda; Webley, Jason (2011). Evelyn Evelyn (illustrated ed.). Diamond Comic Distributors. p. 144. ISBN978-1-59582-578-0.

References [edit]

^ Kiley, Brendan (December 10, 2014). "Jason Webley and Friends Resurrect Margaret Rucker, the Mysterious Millionaire Poet They Found in a Dumpster". The Stranger.
^ Yeaman, Rabia (September 10, 2007). "Jason Webley Monsters of Accordian". KBOO.fm (Podcast). Portland, Oregon: KBOO Community Radio. Retrieved 2009-08-07 .
^ Doran, Bob (May 3, 2007). "A plastic vodka canteen full of pennies". North Coast Periodical. Eureka, California. Archived from the original on 26 Jan 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
^ "Jason Webley". Springman Records. Archived from the original on 2007-10-xi. Retrieved 2007-eleven-25 .
^ Scanlon, Tom (October 31, 2003). "'Happy Death 24-hour interval' with Jason Webley". The Seattle Times . Retrieved 24 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Scanlon, Tom (November 1, 2002). "Jason Webley's giving expiry another go". The Seattle Times . Retrieved 24 August 2009.
^ Piper, Paul. "Jason Webley: A Man with an Piano accordion". Habits of Waste product. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2009.
^ Rathbun, Andy (February vi, 2009). "Jason Webley'south happy to play his hometown". HeraldNet. Archived from the original on ten February 2009. Retrieved 24 Baronial 2009.
^ Corazon, Billy (July one, 2009). "Imaginary Interview: Jason Webley". Iii Imaginary Girls. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2009.
^ Kerry Skemp (November 29, 2007). "Jason Webley at the Lily Pad". Bostonist. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved x November 2010.
^ "Cheerio, Jason". Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
^ Sendejas Jr., Jesse (July xiv, 2017). "Jason Webley: Welcome to Night Vale Sure Beats Busking". Houston Press . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ "Interview with Jason Webley". Let's Polka. August 20, 2007. Retrieved 4 Nov 2009.
^ Greg Majewski (August 29, 2009). "Monsters of Piano accordion to Play Luigi's". Sacramento Press. Archived from the original on iv Oct 2009. Retrieved 4 Nov 2009.
^ Kiley, Brendan (December 10, 2014). "Jason Webley and Friends Resurrect Margaret Rucker, the Mysterious Millionaire Poet They Establish in a Dumpster". The Stranger . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Chocolate-brown, Andrea (October 1, 2018). "Rucker tomb: The giant granite wonder of Everett". Everett Herald . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Muhlstein, Julie (July 29, 2014). "The rescued story of i of Everett's daughters continues to be told". Everett Herald . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Smith, Rick (November 4, 2016). "Tonight: NW Musicians Revisit the "Everett Massacre" in 100 Years Ago Tomorrow". The Stranger . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Kiley, Brendan (Nov iii, 2016). "In the key of claret: Concert marks centennial of Everett Massacre". The Seattle Times . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Muhlstein, Julie (July 12, 2019). "Artistry afloat: Jason Webley takes to the river in Oregon". Everett Herald . Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Davis, Branglen. "ArtSEA: A floating circus cruises into Seattle waterways". Crosscut . Retrieved 27 Baronial 2021.
^ "Recordings". Jason Webley. Retrieved 2007-11-25 .
^ @jasonwebley (12 February 2018). "Happy birthday Judy Blume!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links [edit]

Official website of Jason Webley
Monsters of Accordion website
Jason Webley at AllMusic
Jason Webley's channel on YouTube

shibatastals1937.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Webley