Dedicated to all key workers of whom I am not one x.
©Jim Pearson 2020

The best education 
Put you on your feet
And with the right connections 
You took an empty seat

A nanny for your children
A chauffeur driven car
But in a global crises
We know who the heroes are

Who’s gonna teach our kids?
Who’s gonna make us well?
Who’s gonna help the old?
Who’s gonna stack our shelves?

You took a brave decision 
To bet against the grain
A pin point incision 
Profit from other’s pain

You made a tidy killing 
While others fought the war
But come the revolution 
We know who the heroes are 

Who’s gonna teach our kids?
Who’s gonna make us well?
Who’s gonna help the old?
Who’s gonna stack our shelves?

Who’s gonna drive the vans?
Who’s gonna pick our crops?
Who’s gonna keep the peace?
Who’s gonna serve in shops?

When the war is won
Heroes go unsung
Normal life returns
Lessons never learned

Shelf Stacker

The new sound of #Christmas. “My Boyfriend is a Snowman” and “(I Won’t Be Your) Christmas Turkey” out now.

All Songs ©

love fooling around with notes, dunno music ( ˘︹˘ )

reachable via links belowヾ(•ω•`)o

thommorecroft.com

Singer-Songwriter from Shrewsbury living in Liverpool.

New album 'Waiting For Leo' out now on 9x9 Records.

Dirt Farmer - Recently released album, Scenic Route

In every new guitar there are songs waiting to be born. A new instrument can inspire a player to look at the fretboard differently and see possibilities they never thought about before. If the feel is right, they can bond with the instrument and find themselves reaching for it more and more. 

Scott Cryer and Rob MacDonald, the prolific songwriting duo from Brampton, Ontario, found themselves doing just that last year. In 2023 they each purchased a small body Martin acoustic guitar and that was it; they fell under the acoustic spell. They played and recorded songs together on their beloved new guitars and after about a year, sure enough, an acoustic inspired album came into being; Scenic Route.

Scenic Route consists of ten songs with a quirky yet serious, mostly uplifting, alternative folk/pop feel. The songs range from quiet intimate arrangements such as with the beautiful simplicity of Never Known Sadness, to the lush musical soundscape of It’s Time. Expressive vocals are paired with rich albeit restrained harmonies. The album title is taken from a line in the folk rock track, Sleep through a movie again; “Oh I know I took the scenic route, on the way to figuring out…”. Tales of plans winding up taking the longer idyllic scenic route, and sometimes a much darker, twisted path. 

It is no surprise that the small body guitars shine and sparkle throughout the mixes. Cryer and MacDonald were inspired by the rich tones of the guitars and made every effort during recording and mixing to show them in their best light, and to support the songs beautifully.

Winner of 2024 Liverpool Songwriting Competition with "The Boy With the Red Hat", taken from "Death to Mortality".

People have said that Jim plays guitar like a drummer. He is. In the mid eighties, he toured the Far East, Europe and Tyneside with near-legendary Geordie club band Foxy, before putting down his sticks, opting for a life of obscurity as graphic designer, husband and dad.

In his late thirties with a mid-life-crises looming, he started writing and recording his songs, self-releasing “Some Songs by Jim Pearson” in his fortieth year.

Suddenly, nothing happened, so he continued, and gradually accumulated a niche following of several well-intentioned virtual people, each possessing an uncanny appreciation of music and lyrics, as well as managing to get a handful of plays on BBC 6 music.

Jim is also singer, guitarist, songwriter with niche NW-UK band Scaredycats, who's debut album "Dumb Animals" was pronounced album of the year by Liverpool Sound and Vision in 2017.

Last year, he was a key collaborator and producer with international lockdown supergroup "Nothing On TV".

According to Jim... "You might not agree, but I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never get the global recognition I so clearly deserve, and honestly, I am all the happier for it."

BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson says... “This is the astonishingly prolific Merseyside songwriter Jim Pearson… you never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it’s gonna be pretty darn good...” (The Tom Robinson Show, January 25th 2020)

Songwriter from Northern England
https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R96vnb0ABdaZRMLG4XUNf

Scaredycats
https://scaredycatsuk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/02W2iVwO5b3EIjzspgmS1N

Nothing On TV
https://nothingontv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/07ADDEerdBir7xBgvdYyeo?si=k65U2tPkQuqbd1WFuPQOyA

‘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.

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