Artist Damien Jurado

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Damien Jurado

For more than a decade now, songwriter Damien Jurado has made his name with folk-based sounds and stunningly direct yet finely measured lyrics. As he proved on 2008’s Caught In The Trees, Jurado still has the strengths that won him a loyal following in the first place: “I’m no lie detector, he’s no bullshit talker,” went the chorus of album-opener “Gillian Was A Horse,” summing up an artist who maintains perspective instead of playing games to court an audience. However, he still enjoys the occasional conceptual exercise: The new follow-up, Saint Bartlett, was recorded in just one week with all the parts performed by Jurado and producer Richard Swift.

Updated 05/25/2010