What’s up, Our Basement!
Baby Jey was founded by two singer-songwriters – myself (Jeremy Witten) and Dean Kheroufi. For our forthcoming new record, Someday Cowboy, we threw Montreal producer Mitch Holtby into the mix. His multi-genre background spans a hip-hop career that saw him open for acts like Big Boi, Cadence Weapon, Buck 65 and Chali 2na. This unique match between singer-songwriters and a hip-hop producer may partially explain the album’s unique blend of shimmery synths and pulsing rhythms with lap steel guitar and jangling mandolins.
When we wrote these songs, we were listening to all kinds of different stuff. Lots of country music from the 80s like Tanya Tucker, Keith Whitley and Johnny Lee, lots of soft rock like America and Carole King, lots of Prince. I guess our first single – “Someday My Space Cowboy Will Come” – is a play on “Someday My Prince Will Come.” It’s a fun little tune about having a mirage in the desert.
Someday Cowboy was recorded in two days in my childhood home – we wanted a cozy and intimate setting to record and we were too broke to rent a studio. There’s a certain feeling of nostalgia to a lot of the album’s lyrics – we reminisce about tobogganing as kids and dreaming about cowboys, so it’s fitting that I was able to play the same piano that I first learned on. Since Someday Cowboy was recorded live off the floor in a living room, the piano had to be covered in blankets to prevent the sound from leaking to other mics.
The release of Someday Cowboy on September 14th (on NYC label Maintenance Records) will mark an important transition for both Dean and myself as we move to New York City. I’ve been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to complete an M.A. in History at The New School, while Dean is set to begin working full-time in the city. We plan to continue performing and will begin recording a new album in late 2018.
Baby Jey
Good morning!
hello
I’m actually “here” today! How’s every little thing? What should we complain about?
brexit?
The lack of proper poutine in England?
Why is there not proper poutine in England? Cheese curds, real ones, should be available from cheddar (and other firm cheeses?) makers; you already master chippies; and as for brown gravy…
“…even President Trump’s dumb tweets…” just said by a writer being interviewed on q. Just like that, in passing, as a secondary statement.
Interviewee “…the arrival on the scene of the one who will not be named…”
q: “uh-huh…”
i.: (…)
We do have a few places that sell poutine but they are few and far between and there are even fewer that do it well
and cheese curds are not common here as you would think, I have to get mine via mail order.
Hi guys. Mmmm poutine. I have a poutinerie a couple blocks from my house and don’t get there near enough.
I am getting far too excited that a top class poutinerie from Manchester will be attending Cheese Fest near here later this month
https://www.cheesefestuk.com/newcastle
https://www.facebook.com/bluecariboucanteen/?ref=br_rs
Yeah, garf, I wasn’t thinking curds were common, just that they could be had (by chippies) if they only communicated their interest to cheese makers. Of course, poutine is still somewhat marginal, I would think.
I think most of the potential poutine market here is catered for by cheesy chips (with optional gravy)
You make a good point. Is the cheese in that flavourful, or standard, little taste stuff?
I think it’s usually your standard mild chedar
Ah. A smidgen of cheese taste. (Curds taste like milk, I find.)
the curds we get here are a little salty (but I think we tend to eat less salt in general over here)
I might be wrong on that salt thing, hmmm
One needs salt. I find my taste for salt — not huge, but usually there — goes up when I sweat a lot, as in: the summer.
Going out. Need a couple of things (a bike brake cable, for instance). It’ll also get me away from the house being vibrated all to heck (they’re backfilling the street with sand, and they have a vibrating roller machine. WORKS REALLY WELL.
I the Space Cowboy track. Interesting mix of sounds and seems very space cowboy.
Idee Fixe is hiring…temporarily.
http://ideefixerecords.com/newposition.html
Do they need a tea boy? I could just about manage that
It’s mostly handling social media. You can manage that too.
they are asking for a
Minimum 3 years music marketing experience.
I saw that.