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All my music is now available free to download. If you really like it, there is a donation box opposite. If you really really it, I'm trying to book house concerts across the world and would love to come and play in your living room. Please use the contact page to get in touch.

No questions, please

Recorded in Philadelphia with Kevin Wesley Williams during two tour of the States. The album gets its title because Americans ask so many questions.

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Every moment matters [2:48]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Mortgage on mind [3:03]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
ADD [2:34]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Debt train [2:16]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Dreams of plenty [3:01]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Mr Pleasure Man [3:29]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The sorrow of Gaia [1:50]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The searcher [4:24]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Will Perrin [4:01]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Nights like these [2:52]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Sleep [4:48]  Choose a price   Add To Cart

Live in Eddie's Attic

Recorded in Decatur Georgia on 26th March 2010.

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Short songs for the twitter generation [3:27]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The American influence [5:45]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Couchsurfing as a career [4:36]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Miseries two and three... and the mission for energy [12:20]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Commercial break [5:33]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Finally a standing ovation [4:38]  Choose a price   Add To Cart

The quest for less

It gets its name for three reasons. The first is that I'm a committed reductionist. Secondly, it's clearing out a backlog of songs that I haven't recorded yet. And thirdly, they're recorded in the most minimal way, just me and my guitar.... and fourthly there's Rise of the Renunciate on it. Fifthly the album cover is mostly white.

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IKEA [0:38]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Rise of the renunciate [4:19]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Daytime TV [1:21]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Bad for good [1:46]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Work eat shit sleep [1:22]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Gordon Brown blues [2:51]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The trial of Toni Terry [1:44]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The cabin song [3:50]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Nick Helderman and the immortals [2:11]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Letters from a long arm [2:26]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Strange times [3:11]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Anywhere but here [5:08]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Dance for me [2:49]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Soulseller [2:45]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The waiting game [3:49]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Cold cold world [3:33]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
All-knowing girl [1:52]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Peace of mind (on the road) [3:00]  Choose a price   Add To Cart

Live album: The flophouse sessions

Stripped-down semi-acoustic performances from some of the best bands from Boston and beyond.

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Mother feeder and the homecoming kid [3:15]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
The debt train [1:56]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Dreams of plenty [2:07]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Cold cold world [3:42]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Anywhere but here [5:14]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Mr Pleasure Man [3:45]  Choose a price   Add To Cart

T-Rexmas

Jack Stafford's 2009 Christmas Cover Album is a collection of songs from T-Rex, the seminal 70s British rock band. It stars Jack's brother Simon on harmonica and backing vocals and was recorded in Austin Texas at Million Dollar Sound. Kurtis D. Machler produced the record and also played guitar and bass, while Mike Meadows supplied percussion. The cover art is by Rune Preuthun.

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Get It On [4:22]  Free   Download MP3
Ride A White Swan [2:12]  Free   Download MP3
Foxy Boy [2:17]  Free   Download MP3
The Flats [1:48]  Free   Download MP3
20th Century Boy [3:17]  Free   Download MP3
20th Century Baby [2:57]  Free   Download MP3
Metal Guru [2:35]  Free   Download MP3
The Soul Of My Suit [2:05]  Free   Download MP3
Hot Love [3:14]  Free   Download MP3
Life's A Gas [2:14]  Free   Download MP3
Christmas Bop [3:36]  Free   Download MP3

Every day's a joy (EP)

The Copenhagen sessions

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Five years on [2:36]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Viva la revolucion [3:44]  Choose a price   Add To Cart

Starman

A tribute to the Duke, recorded for Christmas 2008. Enrique on piano and Jack and Jasmine on vocals.

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Quicksand [4:00]  Free   Download MP3
Kooks [2:54]  lyrics
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Starman [3:01]  lyrics
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Space Oddity [3:33]  lyrics
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Ashes to Ashes [3:15]  lyrics
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Life on Mars [3:23]  lyrics
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China Girl [3:39]  Free   Download MP3
Ziggy Stardust [2:37]  Free   Download MP3

Tall folks from little big town

A collection of songs about characters in Amsterdam. The desperate housewife, the unhappy office worker, the lonely stoner, the pimp, the protestor, and many more. We recorded it on a mini-mic plugged into an ipod. The sound is extremely compressed and has an intimate quality, like an old Nick Drake recording or one of Daniel Johnston’s cassettes.

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Ode to the lonely stoner [4:08]  Free   Download MP3
Song to Woody [1:35]  Free   Download MP3
Vanessa & Sebastian [3:17]  Free   Download MP3
Big fish little pool [0:53]  Free   Download MP3
City life [4:26]  Free   Download MP3
Mother feeder and the homecoming kid [3:46]  Free   Download MP3
Gay OK [3:45]  Free   Download MP3
The art of conversation [2:57]  Free   Download MP3

Long Live Love

The title says it all. Odes to that loving feeling.

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Intonatio Gravis [0:22]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Cedar Room [2:10]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Not Another Love Song [3:20]  €0.99   Add To Cart
The Love Drug [4:18]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Hollywood Goodbyes [2:53]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Blind To See [2:19]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Intonatio Cum Lacrima [0:23]  €0.99   Add To Cart
The Coming Change [4:01]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Midnight Show [4:13]  €0.99   Add To Cart
I Think I Like You Just The Way You Are [8:01]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Long Live Love [1:59]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Me Amore [2:37]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Together [5:13]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Big Blue Ball [1:57]  €0.99   Add To Cart
The World Is Wonderful [5:02]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Intonatio Voluptarius [0:21]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Bonus track: Roadside dream [2:37]  Free   Download MP3

Exes

Debut album. A long tale of ex-girlfriend toubles.

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Nothing in common [2:38]  €0.99   Add To Cart
In it on your own [3:24]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Ex-boyfriends are the bane of my life [3:15]  €0.99   Add To Cart
The hard way [3:37]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Opportunity cost [3:47]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Free from you [3:31]  €0.99   Add To Cart
I can't hear you [1:23]  €0.99   Add To Cart
The best way to live is to grow [3:09]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Nothing in common - reprise [1:43]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Claustrophobia [3:25]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Why does this keep happening to me? [2:53]  €0.99   Add To Cart
The other side of the world [4:07]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Bury St. Edmunds [1:54]  €0.99   Add To Cart
Bonus track: Little Rich Girl [3:13]  Free   Download MP3
Bonus track: Open up [2:31]  Free   Download MP3
Bonus track: In it on your own (original bside version) [3:20]  Free   Download MP3

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