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artist Cam Jones

Ottawa, ON, CANADA
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One VOICE, one GUITAR.

 

Cam Jones is a singer-songwriter, solo-acoustic-electric-rhytmic-folk-rock evolution based in Ottawa, Canada. Built on an assimilation of guitar styles best connected to Ani Difranco and Dave Matthews, Cam's guitar is as much a percussion instrument as it is an accompanying voice in his songs.

 

At the heart of Cam's songs is an agenda with words. The poetry of Cam's lyrics is an intentional attempt to diffuse basic structure by bringing the song in every poem to the instrument that rounds them.

 

With a powerful voice and emotional connection to every word that passes through his lips, music becomes an element that evolves rather than performs: live performances are a product of the surroundings in which they are played.

 

"This machine kills fascists." - or, at least, debates them.

influences

Ani Difranco
Andy Stochansky
Bon Iver
Bruce Cockburn
Cat Stevens
Eddie Vedder
Iron and Wine
Joel Plaskett
Josh Ritter
Kathleen Edwards
Lucinda Williams
Evan Dando
Pearl Jam
Rheostatics
Spirit of the West
Dave Matthews
Danny Michel
Live at the Straka Farm
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Released November, 2011
Live at the Straka Farm
Streetcar Curtsy
Label Independent
Released October, 2011
Streetcar Curtsy

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Bobby Fosse 2:40

Bobby Fosse

Bobby Fosse is a song that arrived without warning one winter day as I was strolling the doldrums of an Ottawa suburb reflecting on the need in the world for more uninhibited dancing--action in general.

Walk Miles 3:20

Walk Miles

'Walk Miles' began as a line that came to me while paddling Lake Travers in Algonquin Park hours into a 4 day jaunt down the Petawawa River. As we navigated the lake in silence the line 'noticing, noticing nothing' came to me. That night I wrote the early scrawlings of 'Walk Miles' by a campfire.

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