"His music is, as it has always been, an intimate fusion of country and soul.” - MOJO

A modern-day Renaissance Man, Jeb Loy Nichols is a musician, songwriter, and visual artist whose creative path has taken him from his birthplace in the American Midwest, to London, and rural Wales.

PARISH BAR “was made at home, over the past couple years, in-between other projects. Some of the tracks came quickly, other tracks crawled into being, a layer at a time,” explains Jeb Loy Nichols.

“It all started because I was involved in doing a series of wood cuts entitled Ghost Yard. Ghost Yard was a public park in the Bronx where Afrika Bambaataa birthed Zulu Nation and helped bring about the age of hip-hop. When I lived in NYC in 1979-83, I went to the parties that Bambaataa threw there. Like the music, the parties were grass roots affairs, a collection of sounds and influences that said: what you see is what you get! This is who we are and that’s what I wanted to say with Parish Bar. ‘This who I was and who I am!’ No big deal—just relax and have a good time.”

“The first song, “COUNTRYMUSICDISCO45” was based on a real happening - I was at a dance and we were all dancing to great disco grooves when out of no where the DJ dropped a Charlie Rich record. It was a great moment. It reminded me of being in

Jamaica and going to the local parish bar and listening to a dub session that lasted all night. Finally, as the sun was coming up, they put on some country tracks. It's all roots music.”

“So I've included some covers, some jazz, some country, some soul - all the stuff that matters. It's an in-between time record - this is what it soundslike at my house.”

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