Friend With a Pool

Friend With a Pool (acoustic)

Laffs Comedy Club ads from the 90s featuring Rick Bessett and Dave Goss

Big Kahunas

HELEN’S DAUGHTER
Amin C  F  G

You won’t tell him 
—but I will
Seems to be a theme here
Dear Bill,
Your wife wants to keep the door locked
Too bad I’ll just bust through the brick wall like oh yeah

Would have been nice
If you’d done the same
But y’all packed and ran away
If the church knew now what you didn’t say
Y’all want to blame the baby?

Nobody ever came to save me
My god, Jesus save me
Anybody anybody

So I found all your children and sat them down
Said I got a story to tell you right now
Your baby cried “my mother would never”
And that’s the kind of sound that’ll haunt you forever

That’s the thing about mothers
We all think they’re saints
But I’ve got a few kids now and They know that I ain’t 

So we hide and we hide and we hide 
Till we don’t
And the friends of the friends All pretend they don’t know
So here it goes
I’ve circled round the subject enough I suppose

Oh my god. 
You already knew.
Father forgive them
They know not what they do

(Love, Jillian)

Helen’s Daughter

OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE: goo.gl/UqMIh6

Jillian Bessett- Electric Piano/Vox
Chris Callahan- Guitar
Paul Radek- Accordion/Bass/Drums/Piano

Mr. Airplane

Carlos Arzate- Vox
Jillian Bessett- Vox/Drum
Katherine Byrnes- Vox
Keli Carpenter- Vox
Katie Haverly- Vox

White Knuckle

Jillian Bessett- Piano/Vox
Chris Callahan- Guitar
Jacob Hacker- Pedal Steel
Bryn Jones- Drums
Paul Radek- Bass

I Don't Know My Name

Jillian Bessett- Piano/Vox
Chris Callahan- Guitar
Bryn Jones- Drums
Paul Radek- Bass

My Baby

Jillian Bessett- Guitar/Organ/Vox
Paul Radek- Bass
Julius Schlosburg- Percussion

Chicago

On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world will there be,
No other end of the world will there be.

-Czeslaw Milosz, A Song on the End of the World

piano/vox: Jillian Bessett
guitar: Chris Callahan
bass: Paul Radek
drums: Julius Schlosburg
violin: Klara Wojtkowska

Champagne and Pearls

When There Are Nine is an avant garde ode to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is the first single release from Jillian Bessett's upcoming sophomore release JOY

vox Jillian Bessett 
percussion Paul Radek 
violin Alaska Henrikson

When There are Nine (acoustic)

Jillian Bessett is a live looping musician who specializes in live vocal performance. Using the Boss RC505 like a palette, Jillian creates audial landscapes lush with harmony and filled with a gripping raw story line.

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