Jason Myles Goss September 8, 2011

Jason grew up in the small mill town of Hopedale, MA. His earliest musical memories include banging on an electric organ in the family dining room and driving to flea markets each weekend with his dad to scout for junky guitars and old marine band harps.

"Every Sunday my dad and I would go flea market shopping in his black Lincoln town car, which, when you're eleven, feels as big as an oil tanker. He would smoke Garcia Vegas and play Bob Dylan records. Now, every time I hear Dylan's voice it reminds me of the squeaky leather seats of that car and my father's cigar smoke."

Jason began recording not far from the flea markets he and his dad would frequent and, in May of 2003, he pressed up his first full-length album called Long Way Down - recorded in several stints while Jason attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he received a BA in English.

That summer Jason was chosen as a finalist in the Newport Folk Festival Songwriters' Contest and in the Fall he traveled to Ireland for a month, performing on the street, playing in pubs, and writing songs for a follow-up record.

In the Spring of 2005 Jason released a second album called Another Ghost, which debuted to a sold-out crowd at Club Passim. Reviewers described the music as "dark and disarmingly sweet," sung in a voice "raw as whiskey and soothing as honey." Boston's Insite Magazine dubbed Jason "a diamond in the rough" and he was hailed as "one of the brightest on the folk circuit today" by the esteemed Stone Church in Newmarket, NH. In 2006 Jason was selected as a finalist in the Music Makers Northeast Songwriters' Contest.

Later in 2006 Jason moved to Brooklyn, NY and began writing a host of new songs.These songs were different sounding and were filled with the apprehension and excitement of being someplace entirely new. After some delays in getting back in the studio Jason released a limited-run live EP called Dreamland, recorded at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA.

" I was writing all these songs and they were filling up most of my live sets and I wanted to get something else out there. I liked the feel of the Lizard Lounge recordings, it was a midnight set on a Thursday; it was rowdy, you could hear the bar staff clearing glasses, and we were all going for broke because we hadn't really rehearsed."

In the summer of 2008 Jason began recording basic tracks for an upcoming release, working with drummer Joel Arnow (Julian Velard, Heather & The Barbarians) who had a newly-acquired work space in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick -- a small room in an old warehouse which used to be a brewery in the early 20th century. With the help of Austin Nevins on guitars and glockenspiel (Josh Ritter, Anais Mitchell), Zack Hickman on electric and upright bass (Josh Ritter, Mark Erelli), and Sam Kassirer on keys (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim), Jason's third record, A Plea For Dreamland was completed and released on June 13th 2009.

Jason is currently residing in Brooklyn, touring, eating sandwiches, and working on his fourth record, due out early 2012.

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