Lewis' 1st Jam

The debut album from bobsled team. 
Including the singles This Pink Moon, Drive and You're so Cool.
Available on limited edition coloured vinyl.

Cool Water

Live From the Sweaty Palm Hotel

Johnny Payne - Only the Lonely

released October 15, 2021
Alexis Mahler: cello, vocals
Mixed by Clara Baker at The Rye Room in Portland, OR
Mastered by Steffen Prentiss Yazvac (Minneapolis, MN)

Artwork: Nathan Peltier - @_garlique
Music and lyrics: John Isaac Davey

Cruel To Be Kind

Teamed up with my good friend and associate Cameron Clark. I told him I needed two CC's of adrenaline directly into my track and he obliged.

Cam-Jam

Head Hang Low

Everybody Wants To Be A Cowboy

Summer Nightwind is the fourth studio album by songwriter and recording artist John Davey. It was composed in a flurry in the months preceding the birth of his daughter. “Late Bloomer” is the first single. It establishes the paradoxical relationship between the life of the imagination and the embodied experience of day-to-day routine, a theme which plays throughout the album. The title track is a series of vignettes compiled as an homage to the American West and the memory of Davey’s brother Amos. “Summer Nightwind” depicts A Truck, A Horse, A Man and is the closing paragraph of the adolescent chapter of life.
	“AM Angel” and “Jesus is a Friend (of the Working Man)” are set to the rhythm of manual labor and the natural movement of people across vast stretches of the American landscape. They return Davey to his gospel roots, a common denominator of country music and rock ‘n roll. 
	The juxtaposition of light-and-dark, give-and-take of a long, intimate relationship plays out in “Laugh Track” and “Sacred Heart”. Both are accompanied by the promise that the narrator will continue to be a presence to be contended with. 
	The final set of companion songs on Summer Nightwind are the character sketches “Sad Prince” and “Employee of the Month” which examine heroes and anti-heroes in two dramatic coming-of-age sequences. These are set to the backdrop of a Midwestern indie rock aesthetic so familiar to John Davey’s generation of seekers and wanderers. 
“Our Ladies Anno Domini” is the jubilant and tongue-in-cheek bookend of the record which enters with laughter and a half-cocked appreciation into the spirit of the Feminine. The only song on Summer Nightwind that precedes Davey’s migration from Tennessee and Indiana, this recursive refrain gratifies and sets the stage for a second listen. 
 The sound of Summer Nightwind was conceived by Davey’s longtime collaboration with drummer Bud Clowers and his baritone guitar. The album was produced by John Davey and  Ryan Staples at Dead River Sound in Marquette, Michigan and elevated by performances from Mark Wayne (pedal steel guitar), Luke Arquette (bass and electric guitar), Liam Joyce (drums), and Pete Gummerson (organ). It was mastered by indie rock royalty TW Walsh (Pedro the Lion, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Jurado) in Massachusetts.

Summer Nightwind

There's Your Trouble (Dixie Chicks cover)

I wonder what it is that motivates the creatures of the night
To circle ‘round the high-walled garden
Looking for a way inside

The smell of babies’ breath, I guess
The supple fruit of all good flesh
The crumbling cookie, flaxseed cake
The brick and fire which we bake with
The hearty fruit on sturdy vine
With love as sweet as yesterday’s wine

The boiling pot, the mother’s cub
A warning shot fired up above
As old as hills, a fear instilled
A caution sign, a chilly spine

The coal-black coat, the beady eyes
The slither and the scale and size
They’ll warn you once, they’ll tell you twice
Entreat you to take their advice
They’ll treat you bad, they’ll treat you nice
They’ll turn your blood as cold as ice

Hard times make strong men
Strong men make good times
Good times make soft men
Soft men make hard, hard times

Hard times make strong men
Strong men make good times
Good times make soft men
Soft men make good wine
Good wine make good time
Good times make hard, hard times

Toss Your Javelin

Hard Times, Strong Men

When I was younger
And didn’t know what life was
I said my only purpose 
was to be your love
I said it like a bad thing
Cuz I wanted more 
Now I’d give anything to be that poor

When you would hold me
Never felt alone
I wanted to be higher 
Little did I know 
The view from up here now 
Gives me vertigo
And I’d give anything to be that low

Time just keeps on rolling by like thunder
If you can slow it down well that’s a clever trick
I’m just trying to Break the spell I’m under 
Hoping maybe this time it’ll stick

Started a fire 
and i let it burn
Always trying to get somewhere
Waiting for my turn
Just wanted to get through it
now it’s turned to ash
And I’d give anything to get that back

Time just keeps on rolling by like thunder
If you can slow it down well that’s a clever trick
I’m just trying to Break the spell we’re under 
Hoping maybe this time it’ll stick

Time just keeps on rolling by like thunder
If you can slow it down well that’s a clever trick
I’m just trying to Break the spell I’m under 
Hoping maybe this time it’ll stick

When I was younger
And didn’t know what life was
I said my only purpose 
was to be your love
I said it like a bad thing
Cuz I wanted more 
Now I’d give anything to be that poor

Summer Nightwind

John Davey

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