Simon Joyner

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Name = Simon Joyner
Born = 1971


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Origin = Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Genre = Americana
Years_active = 1992–present
Label = Jagjaguwar, Team Love Records
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Simon Joyner is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Considered by some Fact|date=October 2007 to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene Fact|date=October 2007, he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes Fact|date=April 2007. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, and Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone. He is also famous for the so called "Peel Incident," when famous British DJ John Peel played his album "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll" from beginning to end on air, only one of two times ever in his over 30 years of broadcasting [http://www.timmcmahan.com/sjoyner.htm] . The other instance occurred in 1977 when Peel played Bob Dylan's "Desire".

Discography

Albums

*Umbilical Chords (One-Hour OH-002 MC 1992)
*Iffy (Sing, Eunuchs! MC 1993) (reissue on LP by Unread Records in 2003; ltd. ed. of 300 copies with handmade covers)
*Room Temperature (One-Hour OH-006 MC & CD 1993) (reissue as a 2LP-set by Jagjaguwar (JAG041) on December 6, 2005)
*The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll (Sing, Eunuchs! LP 1994) (reissue on LP and CD by Team Love (TL-016) on May 6, 2008)
*Heaven's Gate (Sing, Eunuchs! LP 1995) (released on CD by Brinkman Recors in 1996)
*Songs For The New Year (Sing, Eunuchs! EUNUCH 38 LP 1997 / Shrimper Records SHR 92 CD 1997)
*Yesterday, Tomorrow, And In Between (Sing, Eunuchs! 2LP and CD 1998)
*The Lousy Dance (Truckstop LP and CD 1999)
*Hotel Lives (Truckstop 2LP and CD 2001)
*To Almost No One: Singer-Songwriter Series, Volumes 1-5 (w/ The Fallen Men) (Wee Black Skelf set of five 7" vinyl singles; the packaging was all hand-made and only 500 copies were assembled)
*Verbal Objects (Seagull 011 MC 2002) ("live recordings from the dreary West Coast, 2000")
*Here Comes The Balloons 1992-1999 (Unread Records compilation MC 2002) (a collection of 16 un-earthed, acoustic ballads, yarble, and dirge, spanning 1992-1999)
*Blue Melody: Live From The South (Shrimper Records CD-R 2003) (ltd. ed. of 500 copies; live in Chapel Hill, NC, July 2000)
*Lost With The Lights On (Jagjaguwar LP and CD March 16, 2004)
*Stranger Blues (w/ Dennis Callaci) (Catsup Plate mini-LP November 2004) (recorded August 29, 2003 in the Callaci living room in Southern California; issued in a single edition of 500 one-sided LP's, silkscreened and hand assembled chipboard jackets in a "traditional" Catsup Plate brown butchers tape design scheme)
*Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999 (Jagjaguwar JAG076 compilation 2LP and CD March 7, 2006)
*Skeleton Blues (w/ The Fallen Men) (Jagjaguwar LP and CD November 21, 2006)

ingles and EPs

*Why You All So Thief? (Sing, Eunuchs! split 7" vinyl single w/ The Mountain Goats 1994)
*Songs From A Room (Sing, Eunuchs! various artists 7" vinyl EP 1996)
*One For The Catholic Girls (w/ The Fallen Men) (Wurlitzer Jukebox 7" vinyl single 1998)
*The Christine EP (Secretly Canadian 12" vinyl and CD EP 1998)
*The Motorcycle Accident (w/ The Fallen Men) (Roomtone 7" vinyl single 1999)
*Grapefruit (w/ The Fallen Men) (Misplaced Music split 7" vinyl single w/ Two Dollar Guitar 2002)
*Here Come The Balloons (Tongue Master 7" vinyl single 2003)

Other Appearances

*Bright Eyes - "There Is No Beginning to the Story (2002, Saddle Creek)

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/simonjoyner Simon Joyner Myspace]
* [http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=joynersimon Simon Joyner at Jagjaguwar]
* [http://www.weeblackskelf.co.uk/simonjoyner/ Black Dogs & Yellow Birds: a Simon Joyner fan wiki]