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Dang Head

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Louisville, CO

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Dang Head is Jamie Smith (and whomever else shows up), a former member of Denver's d.biddle, a former member of New Mexico's the Lords of Howling, and a former member of San Francisco's Granfaloon Bus, and an occasional collaborator with Portland, OR, outfits Rollerball and the VI Foot Sloth, New Mexico's the Art of Flying, and Denver's A Dog Paloma and Porlolo. --------------------------------------------- Folk-grounded exuberance with startling elements of random noise might best describe Nounsville, the fifteen-song offering from Montana transplant J-ME Smith, aka Dang Head. Fans of musical deconstruction could argue that the ornery fella is merely skippin' down the junkyard path of poetic stray animals with a butterfly net -- and they'd be right. But the critters, duly nabbed (with the help of a few long-lost members from Questa, New Mexico's Lords of Howling), deserve a zoo of their own, and they get one on Smith's homegrown Discobolus imprint. It's an arresting batch of enjoyable songs, all right, strewn with dadaist humor, the occasional broken instrument and that unique mix of blessings an curses that can't help but glitter in the dust. --Westword

REVERB: Dang Head
By Ricardo Baca
Denver Post Pop Music Critic

There's something special brewing in Denver's underground lo-fi acoustic scene. And while this is about Dang Head, a.k.a. Jamie Smith, check out the other artists he's linked with at shows and on his MySpace page (myspace.com/danghead), because they're all equally worth knowing.
When Dang Head played the Old Curtis' Tear In My Beer night on May 24, the room was silent save for the attentive applause that followed each composition. Smith's honest voice and love for words are unique. The music is straightforward, but the sentiment's hardly easy to nail down.
Listen to a song like "Basket," which he sang at the Old Curtis with a lulling drawl, and you're quickly let into a world of love, humor and something that resembles regret.

... And from Tom Murphy's on going and extremely admirable blog/writings detailing 700+ of Denver's bands, musical creatives, and musical history:

607. Dang Head: One of these days Jamie Smith's name will be kind of a Denver legend for reasons that go beyond "just" this project. A few years ago I bought this weird, paper cover CD at Twist and Shout from this "band" because Ben DeSoto had told me a couple years before that he'd been a member of this band. It was a collection be beautiful folky songs with some psychedelia mixed in and a certain something else that was equal parts noise, lo-fi sensibilities and just plain coming at things from a different angle on the world. Never got to see the band until last week when I just made it in time to catch a couple of songs with Jamie performing solo. Great songwriting and a good ear for creating moods and sounds that are just ever so slightly off in a way that is refreshing when we've heard music that is trying to be something this unique but not always making it. I keep forgetting that Jamie was in D. Biddle for a while there. Shocker that he'd be in a band with one of our other best songwriters.

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