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Recently Faires-always a storyteller-has added spoken word to his repertoire. These poignant story-poems come from Faires' lifelong study, and love, of the human pageantry that flows around us all. His "Player Without A Name" is a powerful portrait of a chance meeting of the kind that changes lives. Faires' newest CD "RADIO" features five spoken word pieces and Faires singing and playing guitar solo on 11 songs.
Peter Rowan and Tony Rice featured "Come Back To Old Santa Fe", a song co-written by Faires and Rowan on their Rounder Records CD, "You Were There For Me" released in October of 2004. "Come Back To Old Santa Fe" was selected for publishing with guitar tabulation by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
Since the early 1990's Jerry Faires has released four albums. "Dogs Bark...The Caravan Moves On" released in 1993 is primarily Country and Bluegrass, and features "The D-18 Song". "La Esquina Del Viento" realeased in 1996 is Faires' "jazzabilly" album, featuring stunning lead guitar by former Emmylou Harris' Hot Band lead guitarist Frank Reckard. In 2001 "Bootleg Jake" was released which includes the accoustic trio of Norman and Nancy Blake, Jerry Faires on the instrumental "Miller's Gultch. Faires also plays "Precious Memories was a Song..." with John Inmon of Austin's Lost Gonzo Band. In February 2006 "Radio" was released at the Folk Alliance National Conference in Austin Texas.
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Norman and Nancy Blake featured Faires' song "Precious Memories Was a Song..." on their 2005 Grammy nominated CD "The Morning Glory Ramblers" on Plectrafone Records. The Blakes debuted this fine CD (all traditional country songs with the exception of Faires' song) at a concert at the Library of Congress. They also sang the song several times on the heralded "Down from the Mountain" tour following the huge success of the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" film soundtrack which featured Norman on two cuts.
Norman Blake and Tony Rice covered Faires' "D-18 Song" in 1991 on "Blake Rice 2" on Rounder Records, sending the song to #3 on the National Bluegrass chart, and garnering Faires a quote in the C.F. Martin guitar catalogue.
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In the early 1980's Faires's song "Rendezvous" was the title song for a vinyl album by the Family Lotus String Band, a ground-breaking progressive Bluegrass group founded by Faires and banjo master Jim Bowie, in 1968 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Photo by Pilar Law. Jerry Faires opened for Peter Rowan May 1, 2007 at The Sweetwater in Mill Valley California shortly before the closing of this well known venue. Jerry Faires continues his musical journey by performing at festivals, jukejoints, concert halls, house concerts and clubs. "I met Jerry Faires in Austin Texas, at the annual SWARFA convention. His 'spoken word', folk-style poetry immediately caught my attention. Jerry's detailed crafting of prose, paints vivid pictures in one's mind, as he weaves stories of old forgotten guitar players, mystical Mexican women and country folk struggling to get by. Poet or singer/songwriter, Jerry's works are true American folklore gems." Tom Tranchilla- Co-host of 90.1 KPFT's Houston Asssociation of Acoustic Musicians Radio show.
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Article in "THE FRETBOARD JOURNAL" Quarterly, Winter 2007. "... Jerry Faires, the songwriter behind the legendary "D-18 Song" Jason Verlinde - Publisher Fretboard Journal.
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