Jamie Marshall

HereAfter

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Grown-up soulful pop/rock/folk with Rootsy influences. "A voice to break hearts". Featuring Ex Whitesnake guitar player Micky Moody playing Dobro and slide guitar. (nothing like Whitesnake..)

tracks

: 1 She is in me
: 2 The Judas Tree
: 3 Vagabond Heart
: 4 Hallelujah Day
: 5 Maybe Now
: 6 The tricks that time can play
: 7 Which side of the line
: 8 I can't pretend
: 9 The question why
: 10 The king is dead
: 11 Long way to fall

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"When it comes to singer/songwriters, Jamie Marshall takes a lot of beating ... an act worthy of Wembley Arena."
â Don Craine, BluesMatters magazine

"Jamie Marshall is a new shining light in acoustic music."
- folking.com

“[He has the] ability to pen songs that instantly hook with melody lines aplenty and an understanding of what makes a song jump at the listener. A classic songwriter who could quite literally show the big boys a thing or two”
- Sean McGhee in Rock and Reel

"vastly underrated... he has the presence, personality and stage craft to fill any size venue." - Get Rhythm
"It beggars belief that Marshall is not an adult rock icon." - Time Out

"a consummate entertainer and in the same breath a songwriter and singer of thought and conscience."
- Michael Mee, Tweedale Press

"a voice to break hearts"
- Terry O'Brien, New Acoustic Movement and The Playpen Club

http://www.jamiemarshall.com

For 20 years, I've been a big part of London's live music scene, gigging at venues as varied as the Royal Festival Hall, the Twelve Bar Club, and the London Transport Museum .

Nationally, I've appeared on UK radio (Radio 1, Radio 2, and Radio 5) and television (BBC 1, BBC 2, Channel 4, and Sky TV). At a local level, I was the featured live music guest on several local radio stations: BBC GLR, Radio Wales, Radio Bristol and Radio Newcastle.

In October 2001, I was the guest of media iconoclast and all-round geezer Big George on his BBC Three Counties radio show "The Sound of Music".
Clips from the hour-long show are featured on my Audio page.

http://www.jamiemarshall.com/audio.htm

Outside of performing, I've written music for television, including the theme tune for the BBC comedy "A Prince Among Men", and for a touring comedy show featuring Red Dwarf's Chris Barrie.

In 1991, my band and I toured the UK with Don McLean.
The tour culminated in us recording and performing a special 4-minute version of Don's hit "American Pie" on Europe's top-rated music TV show Top of the Pops.
I've also worked with Paul Young and Los Pacaminos, Thomas Dolby, British blues legend Long John Baldry, Clive Gregson and Ed Alleyne-Johnson, though I didn't always keep such respected company.

My first professional gig came via the back pages of Melody Maker. I was called by a bloke called Johnny Carroll - an Elvis impersonator from Thornton Heath, who specialised in the Elvis "Vegas" era. Unlike Elvis, who was always a big bloke, Johnny was 5'7" and a weasly ex-squaddie, who used to revel in showing us "candid" shots he'd taken of his Danish wife.
This was mostly done at the dinner table when she was present. We were going to be big in Denmark, but what actually happened was we lived out of the back of a van, ate boiled potatoes and cornflakes, and rehearsed on a pig farm - wonderful smell!

I used to front the band for the first half of the show, and we'd play Police and Pretenders covers, then Johnny came on to the overblown strains of Fanfare for the Common Man and went down like a lead balloon - maybe it was the stick-on sideburns.
He couldn't handle the fact that the kids liked us and not him, and I was sacked after 10 days

I've been making records since 1986, when I released a self-financed double A side single (Hungry for You/Closer to You). It was picked up and promoted by EMI Music Publishing.
Since that time, I've released a number of records, you can find details of these at:

http://www.jamiemarshall.com/recordings.htm

In June 2002 my band and I played to 10,000 people at a music festival on the banks of the River Thames in Twickenham, West London England.
The festival, organised in conjunction with the Eel Pie club, marked Twickenham's' rock and blues musical heritage.

In October 2002, I released Before I was Famous, a compilation of remastered tracks from the Troubletown EP (released on good ole vinyl) and the CD album In Our Lifetime. It's the first time that some of these songs have been available in digital format.

It features some tracks from “In Our Lifetime” as well as the material from the Troubletown EP. For those of you unfamiliar with this recording, the songs are: Troubletown, Turning into Dust, White Man's Africa, and Last Laugh Laughs Loudest (this latter track recorded as part of a live radio broadcast, in Geneva Switzerland). The additional track is my original, straight to MiniDisc, demo version of “Trust Me”.

http://www.jamiemarshall.com/audio.htm

-ALBUM REVIEW-

JAMIE MARSHALL
'HERE AFTER'
MUSIC PARTNERS

Another new face/voice for us to listen to is Jamie Marshall, the CD opens in fine fashion with 'She Is In Me', a track that drives along in acoustic fashion, it's one of those 'I've heard this some-where before' songs but for the life of me I can't remember the source'. Whatever, it's a cracking opening to the album with a good drum sound, nice understated guitar and Ham-mond -sounding keyboards.

'The Judas Tree', ah yes it's a bit Mark Cohn and a bit of Climie Fisher, nice edge to the vocal. A reflective 'what could have been' - mmm, yes we've all been there and hope springs eternal.

What is becoming evident is that as the tracks start to roll by this is a musician, songwriter, and singer of the highest calibre. I would put him alongside someone like Jon Strong - strong melodies, very good lyrics, good musician, I could go on but this album really speaks for itself.

'Vagabond Heart' takes us along at a similar pace to 'The Judas Tree', I like the lyrics, before he puts his foot on the pedal for 'Hallelujah Day' featuring some nice emotive slide from Micky Moody. 'Maybe Now' is another 'slow burner' but what could easily have turned out be a crass love song is moved onto anoth-er level by Marshall's lyrics and production plus Moody's delicate slide. 'The Tricks That Time Can Play' has a bit of Irish in the feel and probably a con-tender for a 'boy band' song, as they seem to go for the big romantic ballad. The tempo moves up again for Which Side of the Line' decorated with piano and slide before the Cajun-ish 'I Can't Pretend', I think it's just the squeeze box that gives the track a Cajun feel as Jamie's songwriting is a bit more adventurous than the standard Cajun thing'.

Now here's a nice little laid-back groove for 'The Question Why', a bluesy/smoky affair which for me is a path I think he should explore. 'The King is Dead' is slightly more 'country tinged', the kind of song you'd hear on 'Rebel Country' when it was around on CMT, I prefer his 'bluesy' mode. The album finishes with the up-tempo 'Long Way To Fall' bring-ing back the accordion to good effect.

I've said it before, I'll just re-enforce, if Jamie was from Nashville a lot of people would be raving about this album but the fact is he's not, no 'buts' no 'ifs' this is very good, well recorded, well played and well sung. I 'lean' towards certain tracks but that's because I have a personal preference for Jamie in a bluesy groove.

Marshall, like Jon Strong and many others find themselves in limbo as the majors demand young acts. But performers of this ilk are the backbone of live music. The stadium tours make the rounds employing a few extras in every city, but it's the pub gigs that go on day and night all over the UK are the ones that employ the extra bar staff, work for brew-eries, drivers, van and PA hire, music shop assistants and of course the performers themselves. The bonus is when someone like Marshall or Strong appears at a pub/small venue near you - make sure you're there. cj

From "Get Rhythm" March 2000

-GIG REVIEW-

JAMIE MARSHALL
THE DISPENSARY
NEWCASTLE ON TYNE ENGLAND
1/03/01

Yet another mature British singer/songwriter who's had all the plaudits but is still a stranger to Northern shores. Marshall, originally from Liverpool, is only now stretching his legs and starting to find gigs outside of London. While he may play festivals in Ireland and Scotland it's the small gigs around the UK that have to be played, and now he's doing it. Jamie is quietly spoken with only a hint of Scouse but this belies his vocal power on stage. His set is a mix of tracks from his latest album, 'Here After', new songs and reworking of classics. He may only have been playing to a small audience but he has the presence, personality and stage craft to fill any size venue.

Then there's his voice, rich, deep and with a rough edge, as far removed from his 'talking voice' as you can get. The PA at The Dispensary was well set-up with a good guitar sound emanating from his old Takamini (when they made them like Martins). The opening songs were 'The Question Why', and 'The Judas Tree' both delivered with confidence and winning a good response from the audience. Other songs from 'Here After' included the opening track, the heartfelt 'She Is In Me', a reflective 'The Tricks That Time Can Play', a soulful 'Vagabond Heart', the cajun tinged 'Long Way To Fall', the blue collar rock of 'Hallelujah Day' and the country feel of 'Maybe Now'. Jamie mixed it up a bit with a strong version of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', 'What's Going On' and 'Ordinary People' but the real surprise was near the end of the show when he sang 'Trust Me', one of his latest songs which will, no doubt, grace his next album. That was my highlight of the evening.

Jamie Marshall still reminds me of Yorkshire singer/songwriter Jon Strong, another vastly underrated talent, maybe we should send them all on tour to the States. Both Marshall and Strong are versatile songwriters that don't fit into any convenient pigeon hole and maybe that's the problem, but see either of them live and you will be impressed.

The next evening would see Jamie play at The Barrels in Berwick where a warm, packed house would enjoy this amiable troubadour.

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author: David Castell
In an industry that is piled high with TV-created fake pop, there is something refreshingly real about Jamie Marshall. Perhaps it's the way that he talks to his audience; warm, welcoming and appreciative. Or the way he plays his guitar, striking every chord with vigour - percussive yet sensitive. Most likely though, it's because the melodies that Jamie Marshall writes, sings, and plays are great: truly excellent blues-infused songs that are as deeply emotive as they are well structured. So who is Jamie Marshall? Well, as well as being a stalwart of the London live scene for a number of years, touring with Don MacLean and playing with legends, (Paul Young, Los Pacaminos, Thomas Dolby, John Baldry, Clive Gregson and Ed Alleyne-Johnson), he has featured on virtually all the major TV channels and national radio stations and up and down the country. So you may have already heard his music without realising it. Marshall is now focusing on pushing his own material as far as it can go. We think that should be far. Indeed, on such a rainy grey London night as Monday, there was no better place than the closeted cosiness of the great acoustic institution that is the Kashmir Klub to appreciate his blend of heartfelt, gruff-voiced bluesy ballads. Kicking off his set with the lovely 'The Question Why', Marshall sounds like a cross between early Joe Cocker and recent Van Morrison (minus the bad moods). 'My ex-girlfriend thinks I wrote this next one about her... I never had the heart to tell her I didn't.' Marshall then launches into 'She is in me', another acoustic delight, which ploughs his favourite lyrical terrain - love, relationships, and the nature of nostalgia. 'The tricks that time can play' which follows is also in this soulful, honest vein. The highlight of the set though is the wonderful 'Trust Me', rumoured to be his next single. The thudding, rhythmical guitar accompaniment is mirrored by a spiralling tune. Nowhere does Marshall show his vocal dexterity than on this track, dipping between a low rumbled verse and a joyous held chorus. Standing back from the microphone, he pushes out every rhyming, rising couplet with such urgency and emotion as the song flits between major and relative minor, wistful but hopeful. Perhaps the only slight suggestion of contrivance is in his voice itself. 'Is he deliberately putting on that Joe-cocker-esque huskiness?' the crowd ask themselves as he plays through 'Maybe Now', and 'I'm not waiting'. But these thoughts soon vanish, as the lilting emotion of the songs pour out with enough honesty to blight a stadium full of those doubts. Finishing with 'The Judas Tree', Marshall caps off a superb set. Chris Rea last week went on record to talk of his disillusionment with the current music industry - that its current lust for ready-made pop acts is blinding it to developing fresh talent. In the light of these comments, the industry would do well to take a peek in their acoustic back yard: Jamie Marshall is ready and waiting. His current album 'HereAfter' is out now, available from his official website jamiemarshall.com
.... this CD speaks to the Soul of the true Romantic!
author: Bob Peppler
Jamie Marshall's latest CVD "HereAfter" is a fantastic piece of Musical Art designed for those who love heart-felt Ballads. His lyrics are thought provoking and each song is served with a different taste and texture that will hit home and make you reminisce of Life's past experiences. Marshall sings with a unique-mature style which took years to hone and sharpen. His Mastery of the acoustic guitar and keyboards is self-evident on the CD and his impeccable timing deserves notice. The CD has a remarkable flow to it and the ending of each song seems to set the pace for the next. The album is complimented by Whitesnake's Micky Moody on Dobro and slide guitar. Marshall's voice is mature and experienced. It has that raspy,bluesy,mellow-sound typically found in good NightClubs. "HereAfter" is loaded with songs from the Heart. The second cut, "Judas Tree", reminds you of a distant love that some people keep hidden in the back Chambers of their hearts.... it's biting and riddled in emotion! The third song, "Vagabond Heart", is a nice little gem that offers insight into Marshall's musical world. It's a bluesy little number tailor made for his voice. I was particularly impressed with the lyrics...Marshall is a wonderfull WORDSMITH and he throws his heart into every word he writes..... The songs "Maybe Now" and "The Tricks That Time Can Play" are in my opinion, the best on the CD. Both are soft Ballads that penetrate deep into your Heart and leave you breathless. I felt as though Marshall peronally knew me and was writing about my life. This is a TRADEMARK of his song writing ability. He makes you identify with each and every song on the CD. I highly reccomend his music. You won't be disappointed on any cut. It's a real steal for only $10.00. Bob Peppler