Jeff Zentner lives in Tennessee. He recently released his third album, A Season Lost. His songwriting is influenced by artists such as Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen. He is also particularly influenced by writers such as Cormac McCarthy, Joe Bolton, Breece D’J Pancake, Jack Gilbert, and Michael Ondaatje. His songs, often described as haunting and melancholy, deal in love, loss, death, place, and nostalgia. 

He released his first album, “Hymns to the Darkness”, in November 2006, shortly after moving to the mountains of North Carolina from Tennessee.

In April 2009, Jeff released his second solo album, “The Dying Days of Summer.” “The Dying Days of Summer” features 14 original songs. Guests on the album include katiejane garside (Ruby Throat, Queen Adreena, Daisy Chainsaw), Andria Degens (Pantaleimon, Current 93), Josie Little, Matt Bauer, Jay Foote, and Sara Zentner. 

Jeff is also known for his work with the dark Southern garage trio Creech Holler, formed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2004. In 2006, Creech Holler released “With Signs Following.” In 2008, Creech Holler released “The Shovel and the Gun.”

Jeff appears on the album “We Are Only Riders - The JLP Sessions Project,” a tribute to the late Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, released in 2010 on Glitterhouse Records. He performs on guitar, mandolin, dobro, and banjo with David Eugene Edwards on the song “Rambling Mind,” with Mark Lanegan on “Constant Waiting,” and with Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell on “Free to Walk.” Other guests on the tribute include Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch, Mick Harvey, Barry Adamson, The Raveonettes, Dave Alvin, and Johnny Dowd.  He appears on the sequel to "We Are Only Riders," entitled "The Journey is Long."  He appears on songs with Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch, Mark Lanegan, Isobel Campbell, and Tex Perkins.


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