From their album Know by Heart, this American Analog Set tune is one of my favorite songs from the early 00's. 

Jeff Hulett: guitars, bass, vocals, keys, drums, percussion
Chris Weary: guitars, vocals, keys, noises 

mixed by Jeff Hulett 
mastered by Jacob Church

Aaron & Maria (American Analog Set Cover)

Merrylil (no vox)

Convicted at Christmas (FINAL)

A song written by my great grandfather Merlin "Skeet" Wiles. The rights to this song were sold to Eddie Arnold sometime in the 1940's. Elvis Presley also featured a beautiful rendition of this tune on his "Memphis" album. I recorded this track at Sun Studio as a Christmas present for my Grandfather Robert Wiles.

I'll Hold You In My Heart

slaughterhouse

Video, https://odysee.com/@numbersinthedream:4/Anything-For-You-FINISHED:c

Anything For You

Torn down the middle
There’s a space where you once were
I cannot reach you
You are clinging like a limpet
to your dark despair
What made you choose
to walk that path
with rocks and stones
that rip your shoes
I walk on soft grass
I hear the angels sing,
but you, you cannot lift your eyes - you cannot see anything ....
Your cage is imaginary 
which is why it’s so hard
For me as your friend
to watch from the sidelines as you
choose the Death card

RIP-ped

Foreign Shores

deep beneath the refrain
a cold november rain
it shook me to my core
I thought I'd feel it more
than this

and I curse my crooked face
as the mirror moonlight shades
the eyes that I once knew
now a different shade of blue
staring back

just look at all the times
I've hidden from my mind
how it always seems to find a way
to make me pay
here it comes again

the rain cant wash away
the pain will remain
the same as every day
you always got your way 
and I'm tired of it

my life was cut in two
the pieces that I knew
they trickle down the window
How could I have known
to say goodbye

A whisper from the past
a bloody fist is wrapped
I creep into the morning
with empty feelings swarming
round my head

I swear I heard your name
through the windowpane
So I'll lie awake
with the sound of the break
and crack of dawn

the rain cant wash away
the pain will remain
the same as every day
you always got your way
and I'm tired of it

Sad Bastard

trancered

From the outside, Jeff Hulett might seem like a late-blooming guitarist and songwriter. But if you ask any of his fellow musicians they’ll tell you he was writing songs and playing music long before he put pen to paper or strummed a chord. 

In fact, his first love was not guitar, but drums. He bought his first kit, a used Maxx kit at a consignment store in ’96 after watching Fascist Frank & the German Brigade perform at the historic Antenna Club. A memorable Christmas indeed. 

His sick beats landed him in the band Snowglobe. Over his many years with this Memphis-based institution, Hulett regularly contributed melodies, lyrics and arrangements to many of the tunes in their prolific cannon. You can even hear a few of his originals in their discography.  

During his long tenure with Snowglobe, Hulett continued to hone his own voice and develop his own creative projects. He began playing guitar more, and writing his own lyrics. This dedication and passion led to his collaboration with Leah Keys in the band Me & Leah. They released an eponymous and beautiful CD in 2016 featuring nine original folk tunes. Then in 2019, Me & Leah added Jonathan Schallert to the mix to record and partially release a digital copy of their forthcoming 7 inch Most of Your Life. Both albums were engineered by accomplished mainstays Toby Vest and Pete Mathews of High/Low and Andrew McCalla, respectively. 

But it was when the pandemic struck that Hulett really hit his stride as a songwriter. All alone and with nowhere to go, using an old version of Garageband, he started creating original tracks and collaborating with more and more musicians, writers, and other creators. He was one of the first artists in Memphis--or even the world--to give a voice to our collective feelings when he released his album Safe @ Home w/ Jacob Church early in the pandemic. That record--a seven-song exploration of the new normal we were all just beginning to live--resonated around the globe. It even landed a spot on The English Show, a weekly podcast out of Basel, Switzerland.  

Then, after going on to release two solo albums on Small Batch Records, Hulett reconnected with old friends Melissa Goodwin and Adam Poor. They formed the band Restless Townies. Their first album, Miles Away, released in April 2021, and the trio has a new full length album on the way. In this outfit, all players write and contribute to each other’s songs. 

He’s also formed his own solo band with Jacob Church, Jonathan Schallert, Adam Poor and Lehman Sammons. They recorded a 45 at Sun Studios in June which will be out in early 2022. Both songs are further explorations into the storytelling style Hulett continues to live into. 

As you can see, Hulett has an endless well of positive energy and creative spirit. He continues to foster his many ongoing collaborations, but always seems to have more soul in the tank for new projects with new people. 

For more information, visit smallbatchrecords.bandcamps.com. You can also follow him at dad_onarrival on Instagram, JeffHulettMusic on Facebook and Jeff Hulett on Twitter. To hear more about his latest albums including some unreleased material, and previous releases, check him out on the Shangri-La Records Podcast here.

Convicted at Christmas (FINAL)

Jeff Hulett

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