Jamie N Commons

With a desert-smoked vocal that hints at Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, John Smith, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Gomez, Jamie N Commons, a former student of music at Goldsmiths, University of London may not be a name that is known to many yet, but if you’re a fan of any of the above named prepare yourself to be impressed. For Mr Commons sings like a man who has already seen far too many years. It’s gritty, gravelly and full of the blues, which gives his songs an unquestionable authenticity whatever he’s singing about.

Yet, Commons is a whipper-snapper in his early Twenties. Commons has the potential for his country / folk /rock sound to find acceptance with a more youthful crowd just as the likes of Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling have done so over the last year or so. In fact Laura Marling is a good reference point as we could quite easily imagine this cheeky chick covering his song The Preacher - a potent tale of religion, death and loss touched with hints of dark Americana. It streams below together with the tender piano torch song Wasted Time.

Jamie N Commons is undeniably talented and as long as he avoids the clichés of the genre and gets his music heard, could find his whisky-glugging-shards-of-glass-vocals popularity rising very quickly. This gent will go far!

  Wasted Time by Jamie N Commons   Wasted Time by Jamie N Commons

  The Preacher by Jamie N Commons

  15 Petals by Jamie N Commons
(thanks to breakingmorewaves for some of the words)