Discography

A personal index of all the artists and recordings that life has brought before me and the rich experiences shared creating original and unique interpretations of music.

Below is an expanding discography of moments through the years – some recordings are in the studio with various artists and others are live unmixed recordings from performances along the way.

May 2012 – Present – JV Squad

September 2011 – Present – Folk Soul Revivals (Side man on performances)

July 2010 – Present – These Undowners

September 2007 – 2010 – Slow Motion Trio

Following the Bristol Rhythm and Roots performance in 2007, Clear disbanded to recreate a new group including Jared Bentley, Lance McCloud and myself. Looking to create a newer sound and compliment some of the songs Jared was writing, we began rehearsals in Elizabethton working with Adam Graybeal who performs with several artists in the area including his father’s band (The Nomads) and Ivy Road. We also attracted Mike Sams who was the former drummer with the progressive metal band Blindsight. From there, we rehearsed for several weeks and performed a few gigs at private parties, an art gallery opening and Halo. Recordings are available for the Nelson’s Art Gallery which was recorded by Keith Smith. In 2008, we replaced Adam Graybeal with guitarist and music store entrepreneur Lance Williams. Lance had performed with Jared and Lance McCloud as a trio and is an excellent compliment to our sound. He brings a great sense of humor, a shamanistic common sense and steel guitar.

All songs written by Jared Bentley

Slow Motion Trio
First Recording – UNO
Recorded by Jeremiah Nave

Slow Motion Trio
Demo Recordings from December 2008
Recorded by Jeremiah Nave
– Coming Soon
• Breathe
• Forgive Me
• Wandering Lonely
• Home

Slow Motion Trio
Live Recordings from Nelsons Art Gallery – December 2007
Recorded by EKS Sound – Keith Smith
– Coming Soon

May 2006 – September 2007 – Clear
This band began as a reunion of Clear, a jam/funk band that was popular during the 90s in Bristol featuring singer/songwriter Jared Bentley, Lance McCloud, Greg Smith and Willie Simpson. The guys invited me in to their group to prepare for fall performances and Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion. This band had a terrific sense of humor and chemistry reliving some of the stories from the past and performed several performances during the 12 months of the union including shows at Halo, Bristol Rhythm and Roots, Damascus Old Mill, The Vinyard, State Line Bar and Grill and others.

Click here for the C L E A R Discography…

February 2006 – Occasional performances with Josh Green
Josh is a talented singer/songwriter recording a new album and producing a new video in Los Angeles. He invited me to perform on his new recording and a few performances in the Tri-Cities including a spot on WCYB back in the summer of 2006.Click here and visit Josh Green and keep up with this bright, talented songwriter from Kingsport.

2004- May 2006 – Reagan Boggs Band
I’m fortunate to have performed with Reagan Boggs over a couple of years. We met each other in the winter of 2004 and since then have performed on many stages. Reagan is a spectacular voice and a true gem of the Appalachias with talent that blends everything from Loretta Lynn to Bonnie Raitt and Nora Jones. She’s a honest songwriter and bold heart alpha female and my time with her has been some of the most enjoyable opportunities I’ve worked with.From humble original songs filled with local color to hard-hitting blues and entertaining covers, we’ve had great fun and along the way, played with incredible players including;

Doug Habenna – Bass
Greg Smith – Guitars
Jason Crawford – Banjo/Mandolin
Alan Gamble – Drums
Kevin Light – Bass
Kevin Jackson – FiddleReagan released her second album (‘Never Looking Behind’) and I worked with her to promote this in small rooms and was replaced when she transformed into a more mainstream bluegrass personna.
Click here for the Reagan Boggs Live Discography

December 3, 2005 – A special benefit performance with John Cowan
This is a recording of a live performance with a room microphone at Gatsbys’s during a benefit for Mike Maheffey. This show featured great performers and a wonderful live set from John Cowan.

John Cowan – Vocalist
Terry McCoy – Guitars
David Cate – Piano and Organ
Tad Dickens – Drums
Bo Bradley – Bass
Jason Crawford – Banjo

Baby King – Recorded by Quinten Horton ; 9.8 mb
Little Wing – Live John Cowan at Gatsby’s ; 15.5 mb
Trouble Down Here Below – Live John Cowan at Gatsby’s ; 4.1 mb

2003-2004 – David Cate and Kevin Adams
The Blue Ridge Ensemble eventually ran out of enthusiasm after a brief exploration of some of the old jazz songs we loved to play as friends. Derek was working out of town and found it hard to mix music, his new home and the road work, Steve had misgivings about playing drums altogether. Ultimately, it was Kevin Adams and I who kept in contact and booked alot of gigs playing as a duo.Thinking back, these were some great performances too. We would show up in black suits, blue shirts – Kevin would don his hat and black overcoat and we would smoke cigars and drink wine. That’s about as close as we came to “jazz cats” that I know. Together, we performed for Jazz at Allandale with Charlie Goodwin and Rick Simerly. There were gigs at Fun Fest, fundraisers, Java J’s, private cocktail parties and more over the 12/16 month period.There were a number of recordings made from this period and as a musician it was one of the most ambitious and exploring times as an artist. Playing without a net (full band), Kevin and I truly challenged each other with our improvisations and we’re the better for the union. My obligations with Reagan and Kevin’s work at church ultimately led to a disbandment, but I still long to work with him anytime. He’s a great instrumentalist!

2001-2003 – The Blue Ridge Jazz EnsembleStudio One Performance on WETS-FM – May 25th, 2001
Dave Carter, Mike Strickland and all the folks at WETS-FM in Johnson City have been supporting live music in Northeast Tennessee for well over 20 years now with their unique Saturday special programming called ‘Studio One.’ Over the years, I’ve been more than fortunate to share the music I’ve created with several friends and this performance with Blue Ridge was a challenging 60 minutes.The Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble grew out of a passion and love for old improvisational jazz from the cool era of Miles and Monk. This was our first performance live and a rough one at that. Most of us were making a switch to a new genre altogether with the exception of Kevin and Steve who were already adapted to jazz and me, Derek and Bo were just getting our feet wet with these new tunes.Live radio is always a challenge and it’s easy to rush, flub a note or get totally obsessed about all you do wrong rather than all you do right. This is not a recorded statement of originality and excellence, but rather courage.

Kevin Adams – Saxophones
Bo Bradley – Bass Guitar
David Cate – Piano
Derek Helvey – Guitars
Steve Thompson – Drums

Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble – Blue In Green – Miles Davis ; 2.8 mb
Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble – Four on Six – Wes Montgomery ; 4.4 mb
Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble – Monk’s Dream – Theloniuos Monk ; 3 mb
Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble – Round Midnight- Theloniuos Monk ; 5.9 mb
Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble – So What – Miles Davis ; 5.9 mb
Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble – Scrapple from The Apple – Charlie Parker ; 5.9 mb

1998-2000 – The Retro Rockits
Toward the end of the century, I was immersed in the Internet business and riding the early bubble of the dotcom era. That’s when I met Dave Seig, the owner of ZFX. A creative talent in many ways, Dave went to Dobyns Bennett High School – graduating in the early seventies I think and while in school he played with Bill Robinson in a band called ‘The Carousel.’ Dave and Bill grew up on the Beatles and started jamming. After all those years and logs of great old songs, it was too tempting for me and The Retro Rockits were in the sky. Besides, the instrumentation was full of horns and they called in my old friend David Sproles (he sang with the Carousel and played drums during the sixties – plus we played in TenPenny-see below) and Alan, a drummer who also worked with them some time ago.We got together in the Mt. Carmel basement and worked up a set of old classic r&b songs and in many ways they were cheesy, but when these guys got going and we were all together, we had a blast! It didn’t last long, but we played a few clubs and private parties before everyone started getting hit from all sides with life things. Me and Sieg were pack rats with the audio though. Here are collection of rehearsal numbers we recorded around 1999 or 2000.

Bill Robinson – Vox and Guitar
David Sproles – Vocals and Conga
David Sieg– Bass & Vox
David Cate– Keyboards
Alan Wilder – Drums
Alan Seig – Aux. DrumsAnd the music we created together;

Retro Rockits @ Rush Street
2-20-1998

Times Won’t Let Me – Rascals
I’m a Believer – The Monkees
Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
Third Rate Romance – Amazing Rhythm Aces
Domino – Van Morrison
Spooky – Classics Four
Devil in a Blue Dress – Mitch Ryder
Takin Care of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive
Givin it Up – Delbert McClinton
Get Ready/My Girl
Return To Sender – Elvis
Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis
Piano Man – Billy Joel
She’s Not There – Evil Ways – Santana
Thunder and Lightnin
Here Comes The Sun – George Harrison
Heard it through The Grapevine
Lean on Me – Bill Withers
Back in the USSR – Beatles
Rocky Racoon – Beatles
Happy Together – Turtles
Love Potion No#9 – The Clovers
She was Just 17 – Beatles
Something – Beatles
Obla Dee Obla Da – Beatles
She’s Got a Ticket to Ride – Beatles
Taxman – Beatles

Rush Street Live @ Rascals
March 28, 1998

Kodachrome – Paul Simon
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
James Brown Medley
Drift Away – Dobie Gray
Get Ready
Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis
You Can’t Do That – Beatles
Something – Beatles
Heard It Through The Grapevine
Doctor My Eyes – Jackson Browne
Thunder and Lightnin’ – Eddie and Floyd
Here Comes The Sun – George Harrison
Back In The USSR – The Beatles
Jet – Paul McCartney
You May Be Right – Billy Joel
Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
Rocky Raccoon – Beatles
Let ‘Em In – Paul McCartney
Time Won’t Let Me – The Outsiders
I’m a Believer – Monkees
Happy Together – The Turtles
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Love Potion #9 – The Clovers
Third Rate Romance – Amazing Rhythm Aces
Lean On Me – Bill Withers
Givin It Up – Delbert McClinton

1991-1997 – Ahab and The Wailers

– Call me Ishmael! No…not really.Matter of fact, noone ever knew who Ahab was, but Joe Hoskins would have certainly taken the bow and he probably deserved it. Ahab and The Wailers began and ended in the rented home I moved into in 1990 in Mount Carmel, TN. I moved into this house with Chris Jones and we were working with Derek Helvey and Bo Bradley writing songs for The Watch. Joe would come over often, party a bit and he always brought his Strat and amp. We would end up playing cover songs and pretty soon we decided we wanted two bands and Ahab was born. We played several times around Kingsport, but never really got off the ground like we wanted to. The Watch was doing well and we put the band aside.Sometime after The Watch broke up, Bo and Jo came to me and wanted to put Ahab back together, sort of a Ahab 2.0 Reunion and during the winter of 1996/1997, we put together a set list. When we were ready, I booked a job, but Joe couldn’t play because he was performing with someone else and that ended that. What we were left with was this recording….tunes and a sound never heard before because we never played a gig with the 2.0 version of Ahab and The Wailers, so here you go…The Band;

Bo Bradley- Vocal and Bass
Joe Hoskins – Vocal and Guitar
David Cate – Keyboards
Chris Jones – Drums
Bart Duncan – Drums

The Wailers- Soul Cages / Sting
Ahab and The Wailers- Let The Good Times Roll/ The Cars
Ahab and The Wailers- Invisible Sun/ Police
Ahab and The Wailers- Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo
Ahab and The Wailers- Broken
Ahab and The Wailers- Some Dave Matthews Song
Ahab and The Wailers- Comfortably Numb/ Pink Floyd
Ahab and The Wailers- Josie/Steely Dan
Ahab and The Wailers- Stone Cold/Rainbow

1991-1993 – The Watch

At the end of my second marriage, I moved in with my good friend Derek Helvey at his farm in Blountville, TN. We became good friends while attending Sullivan Central High School where we played jazz together under the direction of Bill Canny and we played in our first band together as Infinity.From his farm, we began to explore with our love of progressive rock music, particularly bands like Kansas, Yes, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, UK, Genesis and others. As we began to record our original ramblings, several songs started to emerge from riffs and experimentations with effects and tones. One day while hanging out at Morrell Music in Kingsport, a long-haired, charasmatic bassist walked in with a “Roll The Bones” Rush t-shirt popped into the store one afternoon and we immediately began a new friendship Bo Bradley, who had moved back to Boones Creek from Miami after touring with The Smithereens.Chris Jones worked at the music store and he was at pivotal moment in his life and I moved to Mount Carmel from Derek’s farm, moved in a drummer, Jones and pretty soon we had two bands – Ahab and The Wailers and our primary focus The Watch.The lyric from the Peter Gabriel song was the empitus for the band’s name and in the basement, we created a unique studio where we practiced with both bands up to three times a week and hosted parties on the nights in between. From this location, we would write, record and produce one of the most original rock sounds of the era. Our original song, The Law of Diminishing Returns was our first song that caught the attention of WIMZ in Knoxville. Their Sunday night “Homegrown Showcase” would eventually play all five of our original songs and voted the band into the 1992 Rock and Blues Awards. The band was nominated as best new act and I was humbled with a best instrumentalist award. We would perform many times in the Old City, Gatlinburg and the Knoxville College strip before disbanding in 1993 for various reasons of entropy.Chris left the band, got married and moved to Nashville. Jones was replaced by Morgan LaFay drummer Steve “O’ and later by Eric Augenstein who later moved to West Virginia and joined a Russian Orthodox monastery.The band would perform at many places in the region and we collected lots of great memories and recording experiences. We had a great time and shared moments of the greatest hope as a band. Below are the five primary tracks that were picked up by WIMZ and video will be coming soon to mark Halloween 1992 where the band performed their best.

Bo Bradley- Vocal and Bass
David Cate – Keyboards
Derek Helvey – Guitars
Chris Jones – Drums

Discography – All Original Music written by The Watch

LODR
Plant Life
Watch Song
At The MomentNew World Order

1990 – Brenda Bass

1983-1986 – Unity

1984-1990 – Kingsport Fun Fest and various recordings

1980-1984 – TenPenny

1978-1980 – Infinity