Jason Collett

Toronto native Jason Collett has earned accolades for his solo albums and tenure with a number of different bands — especially Broken Social Picture — nonetheless it was his association with fellow songwriter Andrew Money that first garnered him critical acclaim. After carrying out in the Andrew Money Band through the past due ’80s and early ’90s, Collett became a member of up with Ursula, an alternative solution rock and roll spinoff of Cash’s earlier group. The music group toured Canada and exposed for acts like the Chances, but after many years in the music business, Collett made a decision to give the occupation up for quite some time. By the middle-’90s, nevertheless, the music insect was still in his program, and Collett teamed up with Money and Hawksley Workman to create the alternative nation outfit Parrot. The group’s single album, Chrome Representation, borrowed greatly from pop, rock and roll, and country customs, which would afterwards resurface in Collett’s single work. Before starting his very own songwriting profession, though, Collett initial began hosting some singer/songwriter shows that featured associates of Blue Rodeo, 54-40, and Skydiggers, amongst others. A popular conference place for regional musicians, the occasions helped concrete the growing reputation of Toronto’s indie music picture. In 2001, Jason Collett released his debut record, Bitter Beauty, and continuing hosting the Overflow Family songwriters’ community forum. He also became a member of the Canadian supergroup Broken Public Scene, which discovered him playing alongside several his Toronto peers. Collett had taken a rest from the music group in 2005 to spotlight his solo profession; he released his sophomore work, Idols of Exile, immediately after. Buoyed with the album’s important acclaim, Collett (today a dad of three) discovered time to focus on another discharge, whittling down the catalog of 40-plus music he previously amassed over the prior years. Here’s to Getting Here was documented in two quick periods during the wintertime of 2007, as well as the Toronto-based Arts & Crafts label released the disk in early 2008. He continued to be with Arts & Crafts for the next record, Rat A Tat Tat, which made an appearance in March 2010. Pony Tips, an all-acoustic, 11-monitor group of reworked tunes, arrived later on that 12 months. The anxieties of the election 12 months seeped into 2012’s Reckon, which resolved the troubling condition of the globe and a far more personal type. After his longest space between single albums however, the songwriter came back in 2016 with Track & Dance Guy, called after a Bob Dylan comment inside a 1965 interview (“I believe of myself even more as a track and dance guy”). It had been made by Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas, who added a breezy contact to Collett’s reflective arranged.