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Simon Joyner Releases Grass, Branch & Bone

Issue 6.06 | apr 2-9, 2015

The Musician’s Musician

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The Musician’s MusicianSimon Joyner Releases Grass, Branch & Bone

By Kyle Eustice

Omaha-based singer-songwriter Simon Joyner flies under the radar and prefers it that way. Since emerging in the early ‘90s, he’s created an extensive body of work, but his “celebrity” has never gone beyond the casual mention from Beck or Conor Oberst citing him as a major influence. Although it’s extremely flattering, to Joyner none of that stuff matters. It has been and always will be about the mu-sic. Beginning with 1992’s Umbilical Chords and culminating with his newest album Grass, Branch & Bone, Joyner crafts each song with immense care, making his penchant for song-writing is evident. It takes the listener on a unique journey through Joyner’s intelligent and creative mind. Released on March 31, 2015 via Woodsist Records,Grass, Branch & Bone delivers nine enticingly beautiful tracks,

which come to life on Saturday, April 4 at The Slowdown. Joyner took some time to explain why fame is something that has never interest-ed him, growing up in the South, his upcoming book, and Omaha’s music scene. Check out www.simonjoyner.net for tour dates.

Shout Omaha (Kyle Eustice): I see you will soon be playing in another living room in Fort Collins soon, among other cities. Why do you prefer these types of shows?

Simon Joyner: I love the intimate living room shows because they give me a chance to play face to face for my audience. It reduc-es the artifice of the whole rock show thing and boils it down to the song. Most musi-cians started performing by passing the guitar around at parties with their friends. At least, I did. The living room shows are a way to get close to that feeling.


You have been a staple of the Omaha music scene (and still are) for so many years. How did you get into music in the first place? If you’re named after Paul Simon, someone in your fam-ily had to be a music lover.

I got into music as a kid. My parents were southern hippies. They had a big record col-lection and music was important in our house growing up. My Dad played guitar and sang to all us kids. He played songs by Kristoffers-en, Dylan, Donovan, Cohen, The Beatles and Stones. He sang us to sleep. It was great. So I had it in my head that playing guitar and sing-ing songs was a normal thing to do. I got a guitar pretty young and he taught me enough chords to play “As Tears Go By” and “House of the Rising Sun.” Both those songs have all the chords you need, maybe more than anyone really needs.

How long did you live in New Orleans grow-ing up? Did that period of your life have any ef-

fect on your songwriting?Only for a little while. My Dad was trans-

ferred to Biloxi, Mississippi when I was three, I think. But New Orleans was an important time in my parent’s life and it took on a mythical kind of importance in my life as this strange and fas-cinating place where I began. In trying to figure out who I was, especially as someone whose family left the South, I explored that southern heritage over the years and tried to understand it. Both my parents were from a small town in Alabama so my grandparents and aunts and uncles and all my history was there in the South and I had become this yankee fish out of water whenever I spent summers in Alabama with my grandmother. I felt a strong connection to it but knew that having left so young, I’d never really be able to call it home, and something about that tormented me.

Have you always been into writing? I was always into storytelling. You start off

lying about where you’ve been all day as a kid, telling outrageous tall tales about this or that, and you end up writing fiction. I guess I got a little more serious about writing in high school. I thought I was going to be a journalist, but I wasn’t really interested in facts as much as you need to be when reporting.

How do you balance family life with tour life?I don’t tour that often, that’s the easiest way

to balance it. I basically make room for the tour-ing rather than the other way around. When I go out, it’s just a couple weeks at a time. Sara hasn’t come along yet, but when the kids are off in college it will be easier to arrange that, I think.

Is “fame” something that interests you?No, I’m happy doing this as an artistic outlet.

Fame is a distraction from the work, an unpleas-ant one at that. The best situation is to be able to do what you do and also live your life without people really recognizing you or becoming too interested in what you do when you aren’t writ-ing and singing songs. Who cares? You know what I mean? The songs are everything and the recognition is nothing. At least to me. I’m proud to be able to do this semi-seriously, but I wouldn’t trade this relative obscurity for any-thing. Financial security would be nice, but I’m pretty sure I’ve found the sweet spot.

What do you think of all the Omaha bands that have come out of our small Midwestern city? I can see why Conor cites you as an influ-ence. On the song “Medicine Blues,” I can hear Conor a bit.

I love Omaha’s various music scenes. There is a lot going on all the time and there always has been a lot happening here. It’s a struggle

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to make music here, in some ways, and that’s what makes it interesting, I think. The Midwest-ern work ethic comes through and prima donna posturing isn’t really a problem. Even the most well-known musicians in our city are down to earth, loyal people.

Can you tell me a little bit about Grass, Branch & Bone? How long did it take to write this album?

It’s a stripped down album, much more spacious than Ghosts. The songs seemed to require a more acoustic approach. I always ap-proach each album as a collection of related songs. The narratives determine the musical approach. This new album has a lot of reflec-tive characters, dealing with memory and time and so I felt like the louder, electric approach that we took with Ghosts wouldn’t really fit the stories here. I wrote the songs for the record over a period of a year, I guess, for the most part. There was one old song, “Some Fathers Let The Sunset Bring Them To Their Knees” which I had written in the late 90’s but it wasn’t any good and languished in a notebook. I found it and re-wrote it and it worked finally. So, that ended up on the album with all of these fresh songs.

Slowdown is a big venue. How does it feel to go from more intimate settings to such an expansive space?

I’m playing the smaller front room of the Slowdown. Even when playing venues I prefer the smaller show. Again, it’s nice that I’m not more popular than I am because I don’t enjoy the large venue performance nearly as much as I do the intimate gathering. I’ve played large festivals and I’ve opened for artists who have gigantic followings so I can do those shows but in situations like that, I feel like the connection I’m able to achieve is with the band on the stage and that the vastness of the audience is inher-ently disconnecting or less personal. It’s fine, but I definitely prefer these kinds of shows. If more than 400 people are in a room at once, it becomes a “concert” not a “show.” I go to shows.

What is on the docket for 2015?I’m going to do a few short tours for “Grass,

Branch & Bone”. There are a couple 7” records coming out over the next several months. I’m also excited because a small publisher is go-ing to release a book of my selected lyrics. That may be out by the end of the year but it could be 2016 if I don’t meet some deadlines, so I better get to work.



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The Scoop: Simon Joyner is a renowned American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence during the Lo-Fi movement of the early 90’s alongside contemporaries mining similar territory, like Will Oldham, Peter Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, Smog, and Alastair Galbraith. Joyner was championed early by the late British DJ, John Peel, who famously played Joyner’s 1994 LP, “The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll”, start to finish on one of his BBC programs, initially making Joyner more well known overseas than in his own country. One of Omaha’s favorite sons, he’s been releasing critically acclaimed albums on various independent labels every few years for over two decades. Joyner and his band The Ghosts are celebrating the release of his thirteenth proper album, “Grass, Branch & Bone”, set for release on Woodsist March 31st.


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The Quilted Conscience Project (TQC Project) is an arts education experience that fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural bonds between people who, otherwise, might never meet. The project works with immigrant/refugee children, newly arrived in the United States, and traditional-American communities, here for many generations, who don’t yet know their newest neighbors. It encourages creativity, respect, and friendship. TCQ Project honors the living legacy of Nebraska born-and-raised social justice pioneer Grace Abbott and is guided by Abbott’s words: “Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.” TQC Project will be on display at KANEKO as a part of the FIBER collective exhibition until April 25. The Quilted Conscience Project, April 2-April 25, at KANEKO, 1111 Jones St., Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Saturday, 1–5 p.m. Admission is free. www.thekaneko.org The Strategic Air & Space Museum announces the opening of a traveling engineering exhibit as a way to inspire learning and interest in careers that focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The Tech City exhibit is designed with interactive learning that will appeal to visitors of all ages and is designed with features just for girls. Visitors can design a model for a city plaza, build a structure that will hold up under the force of an earthquake, change traffic lights and solve traffic jam problems, dam the creek to prevent it from flooding, build a bridge, experiment with sound engineering to produce their own recordings and more.‘Tech City’ Exhibit, April 2-May 10, at Strategic Air & Space Museum, 28210 West Park Highway, Ashland, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $12. www.sasmuseum.com This special exhibit at the Durham Museum uses a combination of images, interesting artifacts, personal items and a video to bring to life the history and service of the Sisters of Mercy. The first sisters arrived by steamboat in 1864 and continue to minister in the Omaha area and beyond. Sisters of Mercy: 150 Years Serving Omaha, April 2-April 12, at The Durham Museum, 801 S. 10th St., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.durhammuseum.org THEATREThe Dinner Detective is the largest, award-

winning, interactive comedic murder mystery dinner show in the United States. We are now running public and private shows in cities across the country every week. Our immensely popular shows are set in the present day. Unlike other murder mystery dinner shows, here you will find no cheesy costumes, no recited campy dialogue and no hokey song and dance. Our performers are dressed just like everyone else, leaving all of the guests to suspect who is a part of the show and who is not. In many instances, guests are seated with the performers and don’t even realize it until they die...the performers, that is! Our Detectives proceed to interrogate everyone and find clues as more people die. At the end of the night, prizes are awarded to the Top Sleuth who solves the crime.Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Show, April 2-December 19, at Doubetree Hotel, 1616 Dodge St., 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are $54.50. www.thedinnerdetective.com COMEDYLocal comedian Dusty Stahl hosts an open mic night every Wednesday. Bring your best material and come on down. Open Mic Night, April 7, at Barley Street Tavern, 2735 N. 62nd St., 10 p.m. Admission is free. www.barleystreet.comCalling all quizzies and quizzettes. If you are looking for a way to cram some knowledge into your brain and cram some beer down your gullet – why not try to do both at the same time? If you would like a chance to get that beer for free along with a night of fun and facts – you should head down to the Sydney on Tuesdays. Grab a team of 5 or fewer and answer 40 fun questions for lots of opportunities to win great prizes (most of them obviously and awesomely include alcohol). Don’t mind your own quizness. Sydney Pub Quiz, April 7, at The Sydney, 5918 Maple St., 8 p.m. Admission is free. www.thesydneybenson.com Aly Peeler presents LIVE at The Tavern! This week’s feature: John Larsen, featuring live art from Omaha’s finest musicians, comedians, poets and artists.John Larsen, at The Tavern, 514 S. 10th St., 9 p.m. Admission is free. www.thetavernomaha.com


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Lancers VS Cedar Rapids Roughriders, April 3, at Ralston Arena, 7300 Q St., 7:35 p.m. Tickets are $16.95-$22.95 (Advance Tickets); $20.95-$26.95 (Day Of Tickets). www.ralstonarena.com COMMUNITY Get to the Sydney at 8pm Thursday for your chance to win awesome prizes and the eternal glory of bragging to your friends that you know more about movies than them! (For this month, anyway!) For any movie quiz noobz, all of the information, rules, et-ceteruh is below! *The Rules:* There will be 40 questions, broken up into five categories of eight questions each (with a ten-minute break between the second and third category). No use of smart phones, laptops, phoning a friend, etc. In fact, you should probably just not have your phone out at any point during the quiz. Teams of FIVE or less. If you have more than five, you can still play, but you won’t be eligible for our fantastic prizes. And what are those fantastic prizes?! *The Prizes:* There will be a first place prize, an individual prize, and Best Team Name prizes! All of which have been donated so graciously by local film-based-businesses/groups and the Sydney. Movie Trivia Night, April 2, at The Sydney, 5918 Maple St., 8 p.m. Admission is free. www.thesydneybenson.com A guided walk of 8 blocks lasting 75-90 minutes through an ethnic historic and commercial district currently with a Latino flavor. We note architecture, the arts, ethnic

culture, local business, and the past/present. Tour happens from April-October on the first Thursday of the month.La Veinticuatro: South 24th Walking Tour, April 2-October 1 (first Thursday of the month), at 24th and N St., 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. www.south24thomahatour.com Omaha leaders will be praying for the needs of the community. This is a sit-down plated breakfast attended by over 600 city business and community leaders. Keynote speaker, Lee Truax, will deliver an inspirational salvation message. A great way to start Easter. 50th Annual Omaha Leadership Prayer Breakfast, at Embassy Suites LaVista Hotel & Conference Center, 12520 Westport Pkwy., 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Tickets are $49-$89. www.omahaprayerbreakfast.com

Public Ice Skating is only $5 admission per person and skate rental is free at Ralston arena until April 25. LEARN TO SKATE: The Ralston Skating Academy’s professional coaching staff will be offering 15 minute private Learn to Skate lessons at each Public Ice Skating for a $10 fee.Visit the RSA table upon arrival to reserve your spot and coach! Learn more about RSA by visiting their website.The Ralston Arena stocks Jackson Ultima leather figure skates. Sizes available on a first-come, first-serve basis or bring your own skates. Please enter through the Southeast entrance. Cash only. Public Ice Skate Times may be pre-empted at any time.Public Ice Skating, April 3-April 25, at Ralston Arena, 7300 Q St., Check website for times and admission prices. www.ralstonarena.com



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