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Aaron Lee Tasjan plays The Grey Eagle on Dec. 12
What do Jack White, Texas Country Superstar Pat Green and Steve Carrell have in common? Answer: Songman and guitarist, Aaron Lee Tasjan.
Over the past few years, Aaron Lee Tasjan has been quietly ascending the world of popular music in his own unique way. A formidable songwriter, Tasjan has penned tunes that have resulted in recording collaborations with Jack White, BP Fallon, Pat Green, Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Famers Nigel Harrison and Clem Burke of Blondie and Faces/Small Faces keyboardist, Ian Mclagan. He was also honored this past year by ASCAP at The Kennedy Center as being on e of America’s most prominent new songwriters. In addition to all this, his songs have been featured in major motion pictures like “The Way, Way Back” staring Steve Carrell and “Serious Moonlight” starring Meg Ryan.
With the release of his first solo, EP The Thinking Man’s Filth in November of 2012, Tasjan has begun to build a career as an extraordinarily engaging solo performer often relating mostly true stories about his experiences on the road and in the music business to the audience during his shows.
Says Tasjan of his influences, “My hero of all music is Kevn Kinney. The other people I dig are Tim Easton, Todd Snider and Tom Petty. It’s not hard to figure out where I’m coming from.”
Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller agrees, adding, “Tasjan has a way of writing us back into moments and years that we’re no longer a part of. He sets us back in the 1980s when John Cougar, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty were writing and releasing their seminal recordings about the lives of Americans, about all-American virtues and the girls that they wanted to make their own, to be the wives that they’d have all-American children with.”
All his hard work this past year has paid off. Tasjan just signed with Rockwood Music Hall Records, a new label based out of NYC, owned by Ken Rockwood, proprietor of the famous Lower East Side music venue, The Rockwood Music Hall. His next EP, “Crooked River Burning,” will be released by the label this spring.
Tasjan will be performing December 6th at The Grey Eagle with Joe Fletcher. Doors open at 8pm. Please check out http://www.aaronleetasjan.com< /a> for more info.
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