‘Delighted that my music has had so many plays on BBC Radio 6 Music, & across the BBC, also in America, Canada and Europe, special thanks to Tom Robinson, Cerys Matthews and BBC Introducing! Humbled and proud at the response my songs have been getting. Thank you everyone for your support’.

Songs about sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees. Recorded by a collective of soundcloud artists. Written in Yorkshire woods . Recorded in fields, garden's & bedrooms across Europe & America.

Purchase from iTunes here
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866

Listen on Spotify here:
https://play.spotify.com/album/7HEwJWNxSIYQUimxlxjCna?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Purchase 'Sleeping Leaves EP' from Bandcamp here (including limited edition CD):
https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jeanes-sleeping-leaves-ep

Words and music: Russell Jeanes,
Voices: Catherine Hershey, Emily Zornado, Léa Decan, Dougie Harley.
Additional guitar: Scott Fraser
Strings: Tom Sidebottom

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Previously a Music Moderator for - Fresh On The Net
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kind words ...
"Nobody out there sounds quite like Russ Jeanes – The taste of honey is almost tangible. Pure pastoral nectar from the heart of Northern England – accept no substitute”
Tom Robinson - BBC 6 Music

“Absolutely Mesmerising, beautiful”
Robert Macfarlane (Author of The Lost Words)

"it's gorgeous - when you first hear Simple Jayne, it immediately goes into your top 100 songs that you take with you forever”
Cerys Matthews - BBC 6 Music

The delicate, pure folk from the mysterious Russell Jeanes is spellbinding,
bewitching, beguiling and breathtakingly beautiful”
The Devil has the Best Tuna

"Imagine walking through the woods, taking a trip back to the 1960s with Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground”
Jericho Keys - BBC Radio

"Innocence and beauty finds its voice”
Johnno Casson

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Thanks to FOTN, Tom Robinson, Cerys Matthews, BBC6 Music, WFMU, Jericho Keys, Alan Raw, BBC Wales, and a myriad of wonderful radio shows across the planet for making it possible for the songs to be heard.

   M​usic & creativity runs in my family. My dad, singer & entertainer Jerry Wallace hit it big in the '50's & ''60's with songs like "Primrose Lane", How The Time Flies, In the Misty Moonlight & more... His career spanned decades, recording well over 20 albums. 

    My Stepfather, jazz pianist, composer & arranger Dennis Michaels, has also been a huge influence on my musical direction. He has worked with Fred Travalena, Florence Henderson, to name a few & most recently has toured, recorded & arranged with the legendary singer, Keely Smith.

     I have played with the duo known as "The Fabulous Bluejayz". Also with Wallace & Phines (duo). Others I have played with, Stephen Phines, Mike McClaren, Dave Hinz, Tami Pallingston & Nalini Cogswell & Pete Dyszczakowski. I have recorded 6 CD's, most notably "Treehugger" which includes the hit song, "Julia Butterfly Hill, Are You Up There Still?" The song is featured as theme & background music in the full-length documentary, "BUTTERFLY", that has aired on POV/PBS & has been screened in numerous theatres worldwide.
   
I'm a Songwriter, guitarist. singer, harmonicas. There is something spiritual about the creative process. I feel that the songs are gifts from the creator and once finished it's as if they were always there.

I switch between styles, folk, jazzy lounge & blues.  My instruments: Yamaha FG345, Fender Strat & Harmonicas.

I record all of my material on an old Roland 880EX, which is powered by the sun since I live completely off-the-grid.  Hope enjoy my music! :)

Bassoonist and Composer.
See more at VincentLaMonica.com

LaMonicaMusic@gmail.com

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