A re-recording of a tune I wrote for my mom after her death in 2014.

Mother's Love (2024)

wabash canonball - banjo and fiddle

Traditional song "Old Man at the Mill" based on Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley's version of "The Old Man at the Mill."

Old Man at the Mill

Improvised version of Traditional "Crawdad Song" tune.

Courtin' at the Crawdad Hole

Traditional Song based on Doc Watson's version of "Liza Jane," Bradley Kincaid's version of "Liza up a Simmon Tree," and Grandpa Jones's version of "Liza's Up the 'Simmon Tree."

Liza's Up in the 'Simmon Tree

Traditional Song based on Doc Watson's version of "Froggy Went A Courtin" and Chubby Parker's version of "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O."

Froggy Went a Courtin'

Traditional songs "Davenport," based on Dock Boggs's version, and "Rambling Hobo," based on Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson's version.

Davenport Rambling Hobo

Traditional folk tune "Cripple Creek," based on Tommy Jarrell's version, played on clawhammer banjo in the woods on a rocking chair.

Cripple Creek

Traditional tune "Groundhog," based on Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton's version of "Groundhog" (which was, in turn, based on Blind Lemon's version), played on clawhammer banjo in the woods on a rocking chair.

Groundhog

First part of traditional song "Liza's Up in the 'Simmon Tree," based on Bradley Kincaid's version of "Liza Up a Simmon Tree" and Grandpa Jones's version of "Liza's Up the 'Simmon Tree," played on clawhammer banjo in the woods on a rocking chair.

Liza's Up in the 'Simmon Tree - Pt. 1

Last part of traditional song "Liza's Up in the 'Simmon Tree," based on Bradley Kincaid's version of "Liza Up a Simmon Tree" and Grandpa Jones's version of "Liza's Up the 'Simmon Tree," played on clawhammer banjo in the woods on a rocking chair.

Liza's Up in the 'Simmon Tree - Pt. 2

So this one came out of the phrase "dastardly deed" and it immediately brought me to today's political and social climates in America. Such a dumpster fire.
Lyrics:

If ever a dastardly deed was done
they did it to us, and it was just for fun.
One man's weakness is another man's gold,
Want to be the seller, but instead you got sold.
That's cold, cold, cold baby.

If Heaven's the dream and Hell is the fire
we're stuck in between, and deep in the mire.
If Jesus forgives me, I'll ask him outright
why he didn't come down and give the Devil a fight?
That's bold, so bold. Out of control, maybe.
I'm giving up, it's time to fold, don't try to save me.

Oh I can see the future
and it's glowing and on fire.
The politicians, the press, the preachers, play both sides
and their blurring all the lines.
Let's go.

A dastardly deed was done to me,
and everyone in the whole country.
Are we too blind, use our eyes to see,
to be students of the past, our shared history?
Let's go, let's roll, stop this train baby,
it's bubbling up, it's gonna blow,
I don't mean maybe.

And I can smell the future,
just like a smoldering dumpster fire.
The burning embers are blowing in the wind,
man things are looking dire.

Dastardly deed, D-dastardly deed
oh baby baby, why can't you see?
What they've done, what they've done to me,
Oh baby, I want to be free.
I want to live in a place that loves,
I want to live in a place that forgives and above all,
I want to to know that I can be right here,
in my home with nothing to fear baby.
Let's play, let's play, let's play oh baby, let's play
let's play, let's play, for the sake of what we made.

Dastardly Deed

Just trying my claw out on songs. Gotta learn them all! Folk forever.

Journey Ongoing

Always moving forward. In a rolling fashion.

Rolling Farewell

Without A Shadow Of Doubt

In Earnest

In Earnest (Jun. 2025)

Lost Gander (Traditional)

Antony Hurley's second album Howl For More released on Lanterne Records in September 2025. 

'A lovely, languid set of travelling songs.' Jude Rogers, The Guardian

Water Burns Away

Lanterns are low, the porch is quiet, and a lone clawhammer banjo circles like a gentle spell, calling back an old friend’s spirit from the dusk.

Wrote this song over the years while Grover was still among the living.  He used to sit at my feet as I would play to him for hours.  Every time I play this song, I feel him in the room.

Original clawhammer banjo tune I used to play to my dear canine friend Mister Grover. Grover lived another three and a half blessed and full years surrounded by seven other canine buddies, several cats, and plenty of human attention such that he must have thought he had survived and gone to heaven-on-earth. And he did!

This song captures some of his attitude and sassiness.

Grumpy Ol' Grover

Making music keeps me sane and happy, just making it and putting it out there and learning everyday.

Home Recordings / Curated Playlists / 

Collaboration / Participation / 

In pursuit of novelty. /

I am of this Earth.  "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-Lovecraft

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Jackspace is a sonic voyager, a cosmic chameleon who's journeyed through the musical multiverse. From the pulse of New Wave to the frenetic energy of the rave scene, from the soulful sounds of folk music to the raw edge of punk and the dark allure of goth, Jackspace has been there, absorbing, learning, evolving. Each phase of his journey, each role he's embodied - the New Waver, the Raver, the Hippie, the Folk Musician, the Poet, the Punk, the Goth, the Seeker - has left an indelible mark on his unique sound.

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