Jon Yeager
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I Was Coming To Get You I Was Coming To Get You
Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you Jon Yeager!
Jon spent the late 90's and early 21st century with Kansas City pop outfit The Daybirds covering the United States sharing its beatle-esque pop to growing crowds of hopeful romantics who agreed that things were in fact getting better all the time. After having a clearer vision of himself and his music Jon decided to break from the collective to pursue his solo ambition.
We see in the debut EP "TRUTH & VOLUME" a self-produced body of recordings with less pop bravado than his former group and more intimacy in which he played all instruments and crafted a honey voiced frontman identity. What started as a demo on an Astralwerks tour with Sondre Lerche and the Golden Republic not only landed him his first deal, but also put him in the hands of San Francisco based manager Liliana Aranda. Working together, Jon's music quickly came to the national spotlight of artists to watch and garnered international attention. Musically and lyrically there was much to take in with "TRUTH & VOLUME". Using his voice like an instrument, Yeager brought us a body of work which strongly proved his ability to be on his own, writing, producing and performing as magnetically as he does.
With management and label changes to follow the Fall 2005 release of "TRUTH & VOLUME", Jon released a self-titled online EP which solidified his sound to his growing fan base. We hear in songs such as "I Was Coming To Get You" and "A Strange Way To Leave A Strange Land" the solid rythym section gliding underneath layers of delayed guitars, organs and Jeff Buckley-like falcetto vocals. What adds to the allure is hearing in Jon's voice themes of deeper meanings. Overall, Yeager effortlessly manages to channel Pop luminaries such as Big Star, The Beatles, and U2, while ably sharing the Alt-Pop genre with contemporaries like Elliott Smith, Pete Yorn, Earlimart, and Iron & Wine.
While most 20-something singer/songwriters in this musical space are singing of self-loathing and lost love, Yeager produces meaningful songs that will stand the test of time. Stay tuned...Band/artist history
"Jon Yeager's five-song solo debut EP Truth & Volume showcases an assuredly talented singer-songwriter with a pop aficionados taste for simply felt words and slightly off-center, low-key melodies that sound classic and wholly original at the same time a skill likely honed during his seven years with Kansas Citys best kept secret, the fabulously underappreciated pop wunderkinds the Daybirds. Sounding like nothing released by his former band, opening track Summer Under a Strange Sky outs Yeager as a noir-ish Pete Yorn, building tension with the distorted spoken refrain "You got it, you got it" before settling into a soothing croon of "Oooh/You'll never ever feel so blue" over acoustic-based, egg-shaker-infused rock grooves. While Black Boy is rooted in the same 50s pop ballads that the Beatles' "This Boy" covered over 40 years ago, Yeager adds his own killer twist: a wicked 70s AOR falsetto chorus that makes the song entirely his own. And when the full band finally kicks into gear during the second half of the sparse, delicate heartbreaker Without You, the effect is an emotional knockout and, hopefully, a tantalizing glimpse of things to come." --PlayBack St. LouisHave you performed in front of an audience?Midwest Music Summit, Indianapolis 2006. Headlining Kansas City and throughout the Midwest. National Supporting Slots, and Europe.
Your musical influences
Ambulance Ltd., Big Star, Bright Eyes, Dream Syndicate, Earlimart, Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine, Jason Falkner, Jeff Buckley, M Ward, Nada Surf, Pete Yorn, Rhett Miller, Richard Ashcroft, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Roberts, Shack, The Beatles, U2What equipment do you use?
Fender Rhodes & GuitarAnything else?
"Extrememly Highly Recommended." -NotLameContact
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