I'm posting this unreleased acoustic demo I recorded back in 2010 in honor of my dear friend Felix McTeigue who I just found out passed away (Summer 2020). He wrote this song before I met him and we joked about it and so many other things during our decade of working together in NYC recording studios, where he was a producer and songwriter and I was his hired gun "Ol Spot On" (when I was doing well) or aka "Jeff Ditz" (when I wasn't doing well haha). I learned so much from Felix, as a studio musician but also as a friend. He was like an older brother to me and we were there for each other, riding high in the good times and thru the dark times. This song blew up once country artist Dallas Smith picked it up, setting the stage for Felix's move to Nashville, where he co-wrote songs for Lori McKenna, Florida Georgia Line and many others, in which he was nominated a Grammy for. But he always stayed humble, kind and gave me a ring to talk stupid, to make each other laugh, or if he wanted a web site designed, wiki page built or some guitar tracks to a new artists he was working with. I love that guy and his enormous talent but most of all, his kindness and friendship. This is all so surreal and a shock. Life is too short and precious-be kind to each other. Rest easy, dear Felix. - Jason "Ol Spot On"

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Jumped Right In (2010) - Acoustic Demo Written By Felix McTeigue

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Martin Ruby is a Roots/Americana band led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Marco North. Born in Brooklyn, he has been living in Moscow, Russia for the past 13 years.
Laying his demons bare, North pulls on characters like a series of strange coats. Paring back the extraneous, coaxing out the wry details, always seeking that conversational tone, his songs are a wandering collection of midnight confessions.
His first album, Heaven Get Behind Me was written on a 100-year-old parlor guitar, and recorded in a Soviet-era living room on a collection of vintage instruments, including a 1887 Pollman banjola. North’s unique songwriting is steeped in not only the melancholy grace of Nick Drake and Mark Linkous, but also the foggy noir of Johnny Cash’s American albums, and the somber meditativeness of Nick Cave’s most recent recorded output.

Jumped Right In (2010) - Acoustic Demo Written By Felix McTeigue

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