Jack Lewis (musician)

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Name = Jack Lewis


Img_capt = Jack Lewis in Brooklyn, New York City, 2004
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Background = solo_singer, Visual post-Artist, poet
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Origin = New York City, New York, U.S.
Genre = Anti-folk
Years_active = 1997–present
Label = Smoking Gun
Rough Trade
Associated_acts = Jeffrey Lewis
Herman Düne
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Jack Lewis (born Aril, 1980) is an American musician, beat poet and artist originally from the Lower East side in Manhattan, New York City, but now based in Portland, Oregon.

He sang, played bass guitar and wrote several of the songs for his older brother Jeffrey Lewis’s albums "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane" (2001), "It's The Ones Who've Cracked That The Light Shines Through" (2003) and "City and Eastern Songs" (2006), all of which were released by Rough Trade Records. As well as contributing to his brother's albums, Jack has released two albums of his own, under the names 'Laissezfaire Lewis' and 'Lesser Lewis' respectively, and has contributed to recordings by Herman Düne.

A visual artist by trade, Jack crafted the album cover for "L'vov's Lament".

A June 2002 graduate of Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, with a major in visual arts, Jack has toured throughout Western Europe with his brother Jeffrey, and has also worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he worked in ticket sales. Jack has also worked as a film promoter in mid-town New York City, where he handed out free movie tickets for $10 an hour. Prior to this he studied at the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts located in midtown Manhattan, New York where he majored in the visual arts, having graduated with passing grades in June, 1998.

Discography

* "L'vov's Lament" - as Lesser Lewis (with Ben Dope, Gottesman and Guitar Situations)
* "L'vov Reads His Notes" - as Jack "Laissezfaire" Lewis
* "Hero Worship and the Animals We Love" (7 inch EP) - as Jack "Laissezfaire" Lewis
* "L'vov Goes To Emandee with My Unicef Box"- as Jack Lewis and the Cutoffs

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/jacklewisband Jack Lewis page on MySpace]