Noir crooner Jeffrey Bright crafts E-Bone Schulz's (aka Harlan T Bobo) early 90's acoustic guitar sketch for the Sunshine Boys into a fully realized pandemic-era anthem staring down the "sorrow and shame" of our era's assorted inhumanities and calamitous disasters natural and unnatural, man made and not.

voice, keyboard – Jeffrey Bright
guitar – E-Bone Schulz

words – Bright
music – Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo)

© 2024 Jeff Bright & the Sunshine Boys
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Without a Name

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Gary D King remix for JABMA; originally recorded in 1986 and released as "Be" on the 1987 LP The Pleasures Pale!

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Mitchell Swann
bass – Luis Lerma
drums – Jeff Keating

words – Bright
music – Swann & Lerma

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Be What You Are (Gary D King Remix)

Jeffrey Bright/JABMA edit and remix; originally recorded in 1987 and released in 2021 on the EP Twitch

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Mitchell Swann
bass – Luis Lerma
drums – Timothy Peyton Earick

words – Bright
music – Swann & Lerma

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Only the Rich Can Really Twitch

Gary D King edit and remix for JABMA; originally recorded in 1986 and released on the 1987 LP The Pleasures Pale!

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Mitchell Swann
bass – Luis Lerma
drums – Jeff Keating

words – Bright
music – Swann & Lerma

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

My Town Has No Cafés (Gary D King Remix)

Jeffrey Bright/JABMA 2025 remix and single a-side version; originally released in 2021 on the LP Instant Karma Cannot Get Me; originally recorded in 1992

voice – Jeffrey Bright 
guitar – Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo) 
bass – Chris Green 
drums – Christopher Fisher

words & music – Bright

© 1992 Myself a Living Torch
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

I'd Print Lots More Money

Jeffrey Bright/JABMA 2025 mix and single b-side version; originally released in 2021 on the LP Instant Karma Cannot Get Me; originally recorded in 1992

voice, keyboard – Jeffrey Bright 
guitar – Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo) 
bass – Chris Green 
drums – Christopher Fisher

words – Bright 
music – Bobo

© 1992 Myself a Living Torch
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

The Future So Bright and Gold

Jeffrey Bright remix for JABMA; originally recorded in 1986 and previously released in 1987 on The Pleasures Pale! LP, in 2019 on The Pleasures Pale! (Remastered) and as a single in 2022

Voice, keyboards – Jeffrey Bright 
Guitars – Mitchell Swann 
Bass guitar – Luis Lerma 
Drums – Jeff Keating 

Words – Bright 
Music – Swann & Lerma

Remixing:
Jeffrey Bright/JABMA at Studio La Casa
San Francisco, California
2020–2024

Orignal recording, tape transfer: 
Gary D King at ReFraze Studio
Dayton, Ohio 
1986–1987, 2020

Restoration, additional recording, mastering:
Jeffrey Bright/JABMA at Studio La Casa
San Francisco, California
2020–2024

Cover design - Jeffrey Bright 

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale 
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Most Precious Things

No, Joy (Not the Same Story)

Myself a Living Torch in 1992-93; from the 2021 LP Instant Karma Cannot Get Me

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo) 
bass guitar – Chris Green 
drums – Christopher Fisher  

words & music – Bright 

© 1992-93 Myself a Living Torch
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Instant Karma Cannot Get Me

Show Me a Pearl

Charming the Pants off of Lucy

JABMA is home to the music created and performed by Jeffrey Alan Bright with a series of indie/alternative bands in Dayton, Ohio and San Francisco, California beginning in 1984 and ending in late 1999. Those acts include B Pictures and The Pleasures Pale in Dayton, and Darke County, Myself a Living Torch and finally Jeff Bright & The Sunshine Boys in San Francisco.

No, Joy (Not the Same Story)

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