jaime michaels

​Jaime Michaels (from the album If You Fall available on Appaloosa Records)
 
For many years, Jaime Michaels set list was filled with the songs of other writers. Rather than simply playing covers, Jaime worked his way into the music, finding the path the words take to the story and developing an understanding how the players can accent and help the tale along. A move west to New Mexico was the spark for Jaime Michaels own songwriting, his nine-album output since relocating to the Southwest steadily showcasing his originals tunes. The If You Fall title track jumps in finding inspiration with the simple wisdom of ‘if you fall, you fall’. The accordion rattles “Bag O’Bones” with its persistent musical breaths while the rhythms of “Red Buddha Laughs” meditate on a rolling percussive mantra as Jaime Michaels pedals through a midway memory in “Carnival Town” and tells the tale of Billy Pilgrim with “So It Goes”.
 
Returning to the producer’s seat, Jono Manson guides the recording of If You Fall for Jaime Michaels. The album offers the songs of fellow musicians when Jaime Michaels travels with Townes Van Zandt’s “Snowing on Raton” and revisits a small town story in Greg Trooper’s “They Call Me Hank”. If You Fallquietly ponders the randomness of the universe with “Any Given Moment” and offers council on finding comfort in “You Think You Know” as Jaime Michaels surrounds a personal accounting of the man behind the music with notes flickering like starlight across “I Am Only – What I Am”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Jaime Michaels from AMAZON
 
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