Biography

Omaha's Simon Joyner crept onto the indie scene in the early 1990s as part of the burgeoning DIY lo-fi scene, alongside acts like the Mountain Goats and Beck. The singer-songwriter maintained a burgeoning release schedule through the decade, beginning with 1992's UMBILICAL CHORDS and including high points like 1994's THE COWARDLY TRAVELER PAYS HIS TOLL. In the next decade, his pace slowed a bit and began to include retrospective albums like BEAUTIFUL LOSERS: SINGLES AND COMPILATION TRACKS 1994-1999, CD and vinyl reissues of his earlier work, and collaborations with artists like the Fallen Men and Dennis Callaci.

Top Tracks

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• Birds Of Spring

• Dreams Of Saint Teresa

• Flannery O'connor

• Forgotten Blues

• Hollywood

• Hotel Suite

• Hotter Than Satan's Heels

• I Will Find You

• I Wrote A Song About The Ocean

• Kerosene

• Long Dark Night

• My Side Of The Blues

• New Year's Song

• Now We Must Face Each Other

• Open Window Blues

• Oxygen

• Robin Hood

• The House

• Three Well-aimed Arrows

• When She Drops Her Veil

• When Will The Sun Rise Again?

• You Don't Know Me

Discography

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• Skeleton Blues

  Jagjaguwar

  2006

• Lost with the Lights On

  Jacaranda / Jagjaguwar

  2004

• Hotel Lives

  Atavistic Records

  2001

• The Lousy Dance

  Truck Stop

  1999

• Yesterday Tomorrow and In Between

  Secretly Canadian

  1998

• Songs for the New Year

  Shrimper

  1996

• Heaven's Gate

  Brinkman (Dutch import)

  1995

• Room Temperature

  Jagjaguwar

  1993