Jason Myles Goss
Coming to Ohio May 28th
- 2003 Finalist in Newport Folk Festival National Songwriters’ Contest
- 2006 Finalist in the Music Makers Northeast Songwriters’ Contest
- Jason’s song “Irish Eyes” voted as #4 in the Top 10 Acoustic songs of 2007 by OurStage.com
- 2009 Northeast Regional Finalist in the Mountain Stage New Song Contest
- Jason has performed with artists such as: Josh Ritter, Ellis Paul, Duncan Sheik, Peter Mulvey, Lori Mckenna, Martha Wainwright, Vance Gilbert, Julian Velard, Jess Klein, Anais Mitchell, and Ryan Montbleau
“Every Sunday my dad and I would go flea market shopping in his black Lincoln town car, which, when you’re eleven, feels as big as an oil tanker. He would smoke Garcia Vegas and play Bob Dylan records. Now, every time I hear Dylan’s voice it reminds me of the squeaky leather seats of that car and my father’s cigar smoke.”
As a teenager Jason began recording not far from the flea market he and his dad would frequent and, in May of 2003, he pressed up 1000 copies of his first full-length album called "Long Way Down" — recorded in several stints while Jason attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he received a BA in English literature.
In August Jason was chosen as a finalist in the Newport Folk Festival Songwriters’ Contest and in the Fall he traveled to Ireland for a month, performing on the street, playing in pubs, and writing songs for a follow-up record.
When he returned, he began booking small tours, performing throughout the Northeast at venues such as: The Living Room (NY), The Stone Church (NH), World Cafe Live (PA), the North Star Cafe (ME), Club Passim (MA) as well as many colleges and universities. Over the next three years Jason shared the stage with artists like Ellis Paul, Duncan Sheik, Peter Mulvey, Lori Mckenna, Martha Wainwright, Vance Gilbert, Julian Velard, Jess Klein, Anais Mitchell, Ryan Montbleau, and others.
In the Spring of 2005 Jason released a second album called “Another Ghost,” which debuted to a sold-out crowd at Club Passim. Reviewers described the music as "dark and disarmingly sweet," sung in a voice “raw as whiskey and soothing as honey.” Boston’s Insite Magazine dubbed Jason “a diamond in the rough” and he was hailed as “one of the brightest on the folk circuit today” by the esteemed Stone Church in Newmarket, NH. In 2006 Jason was selected as a finalist in the Music Makers Northeast Songwriters’ Contest.
Later in 2006 Jason moved to Brooklyn, NY and began writing a host of new songs.These songs were different sounding and were filled with the apprehension and excitement of being someplace entirely new. After some initial delays in getting back in the studio Jason released a limited-run live EP called “Dreamland,” recorded at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA.
“ I was writing all these songs and they were filling up most of my live sets and I wanted to get something else out there. I liked the feel of the Lizard Lounge recordings, it was a midnight set on a Thursday; it was rowdy, you could hear the bar staff clearing glasses, and we were all going for broke because we hadn't really rehearsed.”
More shows followed as plans to record a new full-length record continued to develop. In the summer of 2008 Jason began recording basic tracks for an upcoming release, working with drummer Joel Arnow (Julian Velard, The Vanity Band) who had a newly-acquired work space in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. It was a small room in an old warehouse which used to be a brewery in the early 20th century. With the help of Austin Nevins on guitars and glockenspiel (Josh Ritter, Anais Mitchell), Zack Hickman on electric and upright bass (Josh Ritter, Mark Erelli), and Sam Kassirer on keys (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim), Jason’s third record, “A Plea For Dreamland” was completed and released on June 13th 2009.