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DRIED UP DREAMS on video

JAY AND THE COOKS don’t beat around the bush: the sexagenarians express themselves loud and strong without digression, the subjects are simple and direct with tracks like “Poor Everybody” or “Dried up Hearts”. All the songs are inspired by real life stories or very close to reality.

All songs are in video realized by the canadian Mirkö Lafrenière or the french Lucas Ranoux.

All is available on the Youtube chanel Juste Une Trace.

Jay Ryan – Lead Vocals, Guitars
Stephane Missri – Guitars, Banjo
Paul Susen – Fiddle, Mandolins
Christian Poidevin – Harmonica, Dobro
Marten Ingle – Bass, Double Bass
Marty Vickers – Drums, Percussion

Produced by Paul Bessone for Juste Une Trace
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Arnaud Bascuñana at Studio 180
Published by Éditions Amoc

DRIED UP DREAMS is here

Amazing video for Jay and the Cooks – part.1

Watch, watch, watch ! LE COEUR SEC is a full French album by JAY AND THE COOKS. Original songs by Jay Ryan except one cover by Serge Gainsbourg. We produced videos for all songs. Here, you can find ON RASE TOUT, PRESQUE FOUTU and JE SUIS VENU TE DIRE QUE JE M’EN VAIS.

All the songs tell stories inspired by real life stories or pretty close to reality. Jay Ryan takes a look at society through the eyes of an American that has lived for more than 30 years in France. Mirkö Lafrenière realize videos.

Ligne 13, a «cartoon-song»

Line 13 of the Parisian subway system (“metro”) crosses the capital from North to South, from top to bottom and back up, from suburb to suburb through Paris.

Hauling more than 125 million passengers a year, it’s one of the most fully loaded lines in Europe, in short, saturated. Therein lies its dreadful reputation.

Thanks to Jay and The Cooks, now it’s got its own song! (album I’M HUNGRY)

Drawings by Xavier Delaunoy

LIGNE 13 (Jay Ryan, Marie-France Floury, Éditions AMOC)

Kamel a franchi les montagnes
Kamel a traversé la mer
Mais il a vraiment connu la pire des galères
Sur la ligne 13, même si c’était pas la grève
Sur la ligne 13, il a eu comme un malaise !
Marie Louise a soixante-quinze ans
Elle n’a plus que 3 ou 4 dents
Si elle veut descendre à Invalides,
Il faut qu’elle se speede !
Car sur la ligne13, son dentier, elle l’enlève
Sur la ligne 13, fais gaffe à ta prothèse !
Michelle de Saint Germain en Laye
Arrive sur Paname par le RER C
Mais elle ne rigole pas du tout même si elle s’arrête à Gaité
Et sur la ligne 13, elle pourrait écrire une thèse
Sur la ligne 13, une thèse vraiment balèze !
Boubakar a dégoté un job
Mais le wagon était blindé, il n’a pas pu y monter
Alors pour pas être en retard, il a démissionné !
Il fait la manche sur le quai
De la ligne 13, c’est la crise et elle te baise
Sur la ligne 13, ou tu pousses ou tu crèves !
Marie-France va voir son pote à Saint-Denis
Elle connaît le Carrefour Pleyel
Mais dans le couloir du métro pas de piano
C’est une vraie poubelle !
Sur la ligne 13, entre les canettes de 16
Sur la ligne 13, que des bémols pas de dièses
La ligne 13, tu vas l’avoir mauvaise
La ligne 13, fais toi une ligne, ça apaise !
La ligne 13, y a comme un truc qui pèse
La ligne 13 dis adieu à tes rêves

Up The Mississippi – The origins of the project

Blues, Rock, Country, Cajun, Folk… UP THE MISSISSIPPI is a musical creation by Jay and The Cooks.

From Louisiana to the Great Lakes, we’re going up the Mississippi, traveling through sound landscapes that unify and don’t divide. Sounds, many and varied, but with strong roots.
A real cake walk through North American music enhanced with photography, video and reading from famous authors.
New album out now !

Interview with Jay Ryan

When I was in high school I played trombone in the Algonac Michigan High School marching band. In 1966 we were invited to march in the big parade in Chicago that brought together the best Marching bands from the area.

I didn’t even know that Muddy Waters was playing in a blues club that same night in the South Side. I didn’t even know he existed!

Jay Ryan – Photo Bernard Rousseau

Later my family moved to Elkhart, Indiana, which is even closer to Chicago. but I still hadn’t heard a thing about Muddy Waters, the real thing!

When I finally got ahold of a record and spun it on my record player in Texas at the age of 19 it changed my life.

In ‘75 I lived in Austin, Texas. Down there they mix it up. At the Armadillo Club they had every kind of band you could think of. In particular, there was Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen… they played rock-a-billy, blues, country, whatever, trucker songs….The Fabulous Thunderbirds played straight blues, Clifton Chenier form Louisiana played Zydeco at Antone’s every month…. all this music came from along the Mississippi.

From New Orleans up through the Delta, on to Memphis, Saint Louis, its tributaries (The Ohio and Chicago rivers) into Kentucky and Chicago, Nashville isn’t far, and well, Bob Dylan was born in the State where the river starts.

In 1998 I was at the Folk Alliance Music Conference in Memphis. We rented a big Cadillac and drove it across the Mississippi into Arkansas. It’s big, it’s dangerous, it’s muddy, the people that live along its banks are mostly poor, but it is one of the most stupendous sights and metaphors in the USA for many Authors.

This project is not trying to reproduce the same thing that has already be done by the greats. It’s a very personal take on and homage to the music that has influenced me and the band for our entire lives with a majority of original songs.

There’s no getting around it. I don’t come from Mississippi, I can’t and don’t want to sing like the guys from Clarksville, but the message they and the folks in Memphis and Nashville sent out to the world is what this is all about.

With this creation, I also wanted to give a good place to the literature. I contacted Greil Marcus who accepted that I integrate into the show extracts of « Mystery Train ». The Minnesota Historical Society Press also accepted that I insert passages of « A Stretch on the to river » by Richard Bissell. Also, you will hear short extracts of « Adventures of Huckleberry Finn » by Mark Twain in a traditional and improvised sound atmosphere.

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