Duane Jarvis

Vocalist/songwriter Duane Jarvis continues to be on the road the majority of his lifestyle. Born within the Pacific Northwest, Jarvis’ father is at the Coast Safeguard, therefore he spent his formative years along the West Coastline (with a short stay static in Florida). Like a musician, he offers played throughout European countries and spent amount of time in the music moments of Portland, OR, and LA. He offers arrive to rest in Nashville and it is happy with the opportunites provided in Tune City. Jarvis’ songwriting, and his contact on your guitar, possess elicited a great deal of compliment, particularly from additional artists such as for example Lucinda Williams, Friend Miller, Rosie Flores, and John Prine. His musical history is fairly eclectic. Jarvis started his advanced music education using the John Burroz Blues Music group in Portland. He ultimately shifted to the energy pop group the chances and worked well the I-5 circuit. Jarvis offers mentioned that while he started his music existence inside a blues music group and subsequently caused a rock clothing, he was raised consuming his dad’s nation music albums. He also cites radio as a significant source of motivation, recalling the times when industrial radio was in fact interesting and playlists experienced some variety. Jarvis’ proceed to LA was pivotal. As he recalled: “I had been type of starving in Portland within the mid-’80s, therefore i figured I would as well proceed starve in L.A. where it’s warm. And there have been a lot of great rings down there at that time. The Blasters had been happening, in addition to Rank & Document, los Lobos, the Plimsoles, Peter Case, Lone Justice. My initial season in L.A. sucked, but I did so okay from then on. It’s difficult to go from an extremely comfortable spot to one of the primary cities on earth, especially without the friends, nonetheless it exercised great. I got to play with a whole lot of my heroes.” Marvin Etzioni, founding person in Lone Justice, became a major way to obtain help and motivation for Jarvis. It had been through Etzioni that Jarvis fulfilled Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, and Rosie Flores. Jarvis also performed in Etzioni’s music group Long High Marvin in 1986-1988. Jarvis honed his songwriting skill during his L.A. times, influenced by the task of George Jones, Ray Davies, and Dave Alvin, amongst others. After 11 years in LA, nevertheless, Jarvis was prepared to move. He was established to mind for Austin, TX, but a telephone call to Lucinda Williams, who got relocated in Nashville, confident him to look at Tune Town initial. “I spent three weeks in Nashville, proceeded to go home and loaded my luggage,” Jarvis stated. “I used to be sold onto it.” Jarvis found its way to Nashville in 1994, at that time his debut single record, D.J.’s Entrance Porch, premiered on Medium Great Information. His second record, DEFINATELY NOT Perfect, implemented in 1998 in the now-defunct Watermelon label. His most recent U.S. discharge, Certified Miracle, premiered by Slewfoot in 2001. Jarvis also released an record entitled Combo Platter for the German label Glitterhouse in 1999. Furthermore to his documenting projects, Jarvis in addition has been an employee article writer for Lieber and Stoller since 1998.