Album Notes

Simply put, The 8th Day is about sitting on your a**. The band by the same name gives you music for the occasion. Their self-titled debut album contains songs you can sink into while mellowing out on a Sunday afternoon or driving to your honey's place. It's acoustic rock that's acoustic half the time, and rock the other half. This music has got legs and a little something for everyone, with touches of folk, funk, reggae, and grunge thrown in. Theirs are compositions of love and desire, pain and protest, remembrance and adoration, and a lot of thought.

The 8th Day arrived as an acoustic duo, a singer / singer / songwriter / songwriter as it were. In the studio it transformed, emerging from the cocoon ironically with more arms and legs than it started with. The arrangements on some songs retain the sparseness of the original live performances to preserve their fragility. Others have developed a new timbre or groove and have been enhanced with multiple guitar lines, new harmonies, and full rhythm section. The listener is left with rock and roll in its many forms, and that 8th Day je ne sais quoi throughout.

Between Jason and Jeremy there are many influences creeping in, and when left unchecked these include: Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Prince, Dave Matthews Band, Zappa, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Funkadelic. Despite the presence of these interests, no one knows exactly where this music came from. It leaves one at a loss for a pigeonhole. These song tailors blend patches of melody, harmony, and rhythm into original tapestries of sound that you just want to drape around you until you're snug as a bug in a rug (and not in that hippy, stuff me full of sap kind of way either.) It's music for all seasons, every man, any occasion, and each of your living rooms.