Jasper Brown

With Jasper Brown's the Plan we were introduced to his world, now with Murder Jasper is taking us into the dark corners of that world. The title track Murder leaves us all hoping for an end where the trigger is not pulled and yet in this moments of desperation reason has no home. By the second track reason has returned but the outcome is still very much the same and once again the trigger is pulled.

Jasper was raised in the southeastern deserts of New Mexico. There he began performing gospel music in local churches at the age of three. He proved to be a man ahead of his time after being barred from performing in several churches for singing the Chuck Berry classic "My ding-a-ling" during a Sunday evening service at age four. A few years later while studying music in public school, he was dismissed from the school band for disruptive behavior; it seems that Jasper wanted to play solos on his trombone. Discouraged with being stifled, Jasper went on to pursue his other passion…girls. It was during this time that he was introduced to the theatre where he was encouraged to create and thus the passion for performing was rekindled once again.

Drawing from gospel, country, Texas blues, and Southern Rock, Jasper Brown has created his own brand of Americana. Jasper has managed to stay grounded in his roots while playing in rundown bars and smoky coffee houses throughout New Mexico and West Texas. He tells stories of life's hardships with an emotion that makes you believe the stories, which in turn make you a part of it. With this simple approach, he captures the truth of the story being told leaving you to decide what the song is really about.

He has been compared to John Prine, Townse Van Zandt, Nick Drake and Chris Rea.

"Jasper Brown has a unique brand of music coupled with a classic voice"
-J. Vance (music critic, Conroe, Texas)

Jasper found himself in Albuquerque, NM in hopes of finding a record label. After several failed attempts to find the right label, he stumbled into Little Kiss Records; a group of innovative musicians with similar vision. His first CD at Little Kiss with guest appearances from local luminaries such as Jeffery Richards of Brightcarvers, Shine Cherries, and Ryan Martino of Jason and the Argonauts, and also formed a band with long time friend John Rutledge (bass) and Dan Camera (drums).

His debut CD The Plan was released in the fall of 2005.

Jasper Browns second release on Little Kiss Records is called Murder .  
I am hopeful that you will take a moment and listen to a track or two.   Perhaps a more sincere request would be that you play the CD about ten times, all of the way through over several weeks.   It has been my experience that Jasper kind of grows on people like a slow burn, but barring ten extra hours, which most anyone just would not have... Just another aspect of the riddle that is Jasper Brown and his music.

Things happen slowly in New Mexico.   So, for us it is no surprise that Murder took several years from concept to completion.   There is a certain joy within the dark slow desert bake that shines through these tracks.   The Murder here is not the murder where the camera looks away nor is it the murder where the camera gorges on the carnage.   This Murder looks inward at the soul and explores very common emotions that have gone quietly out of control.

The first two tracks on the CD share feelings that anyone who has ever been in a serious relationship can identify with, but Jasper not satisfied there takes us over the edge and into a realm that few have traveled.   The remainder of the CD continues the odyssey, eventually ending with what might any other day be something more, but here is just left behind as a sort of vague recollection.