Simon Joyner
 

I finally got a hold of his stuff, i've been wanting some for about a year. I wasn't disappointed either. He sort of reminds me of Bob Dylan, he has that old folky sound on some songs, love is worth suffering for, for instance. I have Beautiful Losers and Skeleton Blues i'll up them if anyone wants them.

Recommendations

Love is Worth Suffering For
Burn Rubber
Hot Tears
The Only Living Boy in Omaha
Came A Yellow Bird

Love Is Worth Suffering For

It's really good, up dat shite.

Do it.
Today.
Please.

hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/tkfi4x

Beautiful Losers: Single and Compilation Tracks

hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/ghzqo9

Skeleton Blues

In Britain we are familiar with the big-name North American singer-songwriters. Who has not heard of Neil Dylan, Bob Springsteen, Leonard Young and Bruce Cohen? We are hip to all those guys.

Simon Joyner, on the other hand, is almost unknown in England, and even on MB he only gets 28 mentions (mostly thanks to a guy long-gone called Farewell), plus this short forgotten thread of sleepy jack's. Maybe all that is appropriate given SJ's predeliction for a kind of self-defeated sound that plods along through its own misery. Here are a couple of examples:-





Once you adjust your expectations to SJ's pace, you are open to discover wonderful lyrics, dripping with surprises and genuine feeling. I'm just loving the songs I've listened to so far, and am rather bewildered by his surprisingly extensive discography. So if anyone has a favourite album, or an I-saw-SJ-in -a-shopping-mall story, I'd be very pleased to hear it.

Honestly even in the states Simon Joyner pretty much only seems known by rabid Bright Eyes fans. Dude's criminally underrated.