thanks so much for joining me Brent I'm in Kentucky I'm visiting family um but happy we could jump on a call so um yeah I I've looked up your music a little bit I know that you used to play with the sorted seeds um still do still do okay cool that's good to know I wasn't totally sure if you were like doing more solo stuff now or I do but we're just doing uh we're doing more um kind of just like two three shows every four months and we kind of just do kind of like …

thanks so much for joining me Brent I'm in Kentucky I'm visiting family um but happy we could jump on a call so um yeah I I've looked up your music a little bit I know that you used to play with the sorted seeds um still do still do okay cool that's good to know I wasn't totally sure if you were like doing more solo stuff now or I do but we're just doing uh we're doing more um kind of just like two three shows every four months and we kind of just do kind of like bigger stuff to like uh private parties or stuff like that so what have you been up to recently uh I'm putting out a new single in the next few weeks called Mother Earth um really excited about I went to Costa Rica and did the music video and so we're just working on the video right now oh um what's the video going to be like can you share a little bit about that uh it's total it's really Beach Vibes it's real beautiful a lot of shots of Costa Rica as well just how beautiful uh our planet is do you like Costa Rica have you been down there a lot no but I love it yeah I just went for uh a month this time so I know you've been playing music in the flly head Valley a long time um pretty much you mentioned the last time we talked almost your whole life could you or you've been playing music your whole life could you tell me about when you came up to Montana and what brought you up here um well I was 17 I got in a bunch of trouble and so my dad sent me to Montana to live with my brother and um I stayed and just started do doing music then here cool so where are you from originally Cincinnati OH very cool yeah so what got you into music there oh I've just always been since I was nine I've been playing music nice so I started playing guitar at 10 and just started writing songs at like 11 and have just continued I'm actually going to stay here another year and then I'm going to head to a city for five years and really try to focus on um uh reaching more people yeah yeah definitely what city are you thinking about moving to I don't know yet I want to go south so I want to really I'm studying with Ben Dar great friend of mine he's like a book of knowledge as far as Jazz and I'm just learning all these new chords and I'm just going to try to um change up my style not completely but you know where I put Reay into Jazzy bluesy and and just continue focusing on songwriting and putting music out yeah that's that's really interesting so when you're thinking about switching up your style what other elements are you drawing from that are going to be like new um well I'm gonna kind of I'm kind of going for like more soul and like Marcus King with some Ray gay roots for sure like I'm really going to study music this next year into um just learning as much as I can and then putting it into uh what I already am yeah do you often go through periods like that where you're just like eager to learn something new new or eager to do something different yeah I mean living in a small town the ego will tell you you're good but like if you really want to like watch greatness of other people and their knowledge and stuff you're really not that good and so I am going to put all my focus into um learning and growing because I got kind of stale there I've done everything I wanted to do here um as an artist and been things I'm a little crazy because I I make a good living here and have a good thing going but I I kind of want more I want to tour nationally eventually and it's going to take you know 3 four years of hard work but I I believe I can do it and so that's what I'm kind of going to do the next five years all my focus is on music yeah totally I think you have a really unique sound I think you have a really unique voice um that kind of makes you a stand out so best of luck to you and hey you can always come back and totally in the Flathead you've got a great fan base here so yeah that makes L you mentioned that you've been writing songs since you were 11 so I'm just curious what kind of songs were you writing at 11 years old they were actually not bad I mean I still have a song I wrote at 11 I mean it was just kid stuff right it's like you're in a band my dad always uh let my friends come over and play he was super cool and I've always had bands my whole life and uh yeah just fun I think a lot of that like uh when you're like a teenager kid writing like poetry or songs I think that can be very like raw and uh you're a kid you know what I mean you don't even have a clue but it's good to start somewhere yeah definitely so nowadays when you approach songwriting um what are some of the things you think about when you sit down and try to try to write something like that I don't really sit down and write um some something will come to me inside and I'll just kind of like the last single I put out Grace I was at a bad place in my life and so that kind of came one morning I woke up and I went on this porch and I wrote it I didn't write any words down for Grace I it just kind of came so and then like Mother Earth the single I'm releasing I spent a long time on that song like with the band and parts and so it's good to demo stuff out it's good to be around people that aren't attached to you to your art like and and that could give you advice because you become so attached to it that you'll make it not as good so it's nice to have other people around yeah some like fresh ears yeah not to become attached to it like I work with Mike Murray he's one of my favorite humans he's done a lot of my stuff um he just released Grace with me and Mother Earth and I got this new single I'm going to release uh in the winter time and I'm going to spend all winter on it spent a long time on one song in the studio a long time and so because it makes it just gets better and better yeah does is that kind of why you're leaning more towards singles right now rather than putting together like a big album yeah yeah I would like to a couple years from now put a big album when I have super pro people working my band right now uh is the best I've got to play with people in the valley I mean they're just all amazing so it's been real nice working with them because they're all so good at what they do yeah who are you playing with currently um my buddy Paul uh he's a known drummer in the valley he plays with the glacier Symphony he plays with all kinds of bands but Paul's the by far the best drummer I've played with uh far as feel in my life I'm playing with uh my horn sections from Missoula and uh they're amazing Lana my saxs player she tours with March ivth band which is a bigger band and so I'm playing with Bob on Bas he's amazing local guy living in Libby right now so I'm excited I mean and the attitudes are all amazing it's all positive yeah very very comfortable environment with the these guys that's great I feel like that's uh that's good for Creative collaborators you need a good vibe yeah everybody gets so serious there's nothing to be serious about yeah so you might have already mentioned this but remind me what uh Ben plays and what's he gonna be playing for press play Oh Ben do say he's my best friend he plays um he plays guitar left-handed upside down Ben is just a knowledge he is just a walking library of Music he's a he's amazing yeah so Ben used to come up to me for years here in White Fish and be like we should play together a couple years ago he came up to me and we did and we just you just beat certain people in your life who are like you were meant to meet and yeah I'm really fortunate to have been in my life and he's a brother of mine and good friend and we do well together we have fun but he's always encouraging me to be better and that's what you want in life people around you yeah definitely can you give us a little preview of what you guys are going to play for press play um I don't even really know but I'm just going to do like 12 12 of my originals yeah and so U really excited Ben knows me pretty well and so yeah it's going to be fun I'm actually excited yeah we're excited to have you it's it's a cool a lot of the musicians we've had um now we can kind of confidently say it's a it's a unique venue it's it's really intimate um it's inspired by this I think it's really neat I think it's uh you know for for you guys um a lot of the musicians in the valley play events or bars um where people are doing other stuff but this is like people you really have everyone's full attention so I hope you enjoy it I think it's going to be fun I wanted to ask so you mentioned you had recorded some albums previously um but I couldn't really find them online but could you kind of go through everything like you've done recording wise you might have been looking it's Jameson and the sorted seeds and now I'm just coming out as Brent Jameson in the sorted seeds I I figured that's probably where I went wrong but um yeah I walked down your street was done in 2016 that was really some of my best work as a songwriter and musician some of the songs got picked up and went throughout the west from Colorado to here to Oregon to Cali on the radio so that was really good then I followed it up with me and Eugene which is one of my favorite records as well and they play that here on the radio and me and Eugene is probably like the song I get asked to play the most from people they love it that kind of follow me and so yeah it's been good yeah and then I just put out Grace and then I put out Mother Earth and then I'm going to put out another single come winner so could you I I really like the song Me and Eugene could you talk a little bit about what inspired that uh

depression I was depressed it was raining in Oregon and Eugene and I was like sleeping on my friend's couch and I woke up and I started the intro RI and then I was like looking around Eugene which I love Eugene but then I just started with the phrases of the words in my head I didn't even write down me and Eugene I never wrote it down I just kind of started looking around Eugene and then I just applied it to the song and I really liked it yeah I think it's a really great um to me I know it doesn't totally sound like folk music but it really reminds me of some when you listen to folk songs and you hear those truths and it really reflects like what you're seeing like so that's definitely the vibe I got it's it's a really beautiful song yeah the pre fontain was like my favorite Runner I love um cycling and swimming and running and he was my favorite Runner growing up and so I added him in the song and because they love him there you know he's like Phil night made Nike not because of Michael Jordan but because of Steve Prefontaine yeah but then Steve died and and that's when you know and he was so close to winning a gold but I really really liked Steve preon Tang growing up and so my dad loved him my dad was a runner and so yeah he was like he's a legend out of there but I added him in the song too so I guess I'm a big believer personally that you don't have to be going through something hard to like write and be creative but is that do you find that like a driver for you in your hard time yeah my best work has come from suffering yeah it's almost like God or the universe that inside emotional pain becomes like inspiring and it just that's where I write the best is suffering do you think it helps you like process some of that yeah I mean when I was really healed at T years stobber I I I wasn't good at writing that much so I had to go [ __ ] up my life again and then come back and I got all these good songs at least you got some good songs out of it yeah but I'm good on that I'm I I want to stay healthy and strong where I'm at right now so yeah well it seems like Mother Earth your next single coming out that is really drawing from some like really positive energy yes it's it's a very positive energy it's kind of beautiful yeah do you know around when that's going to come out uh when my other best friend Landon finishes the music video and quits being lazy I'm just kidding Landon he'll probably listen to this but it'll be out like first week of August okay cool cool that will line up nicely maybe with the Press Play that'll be good so the the decision to play a little bit more solo play a little bit more uh as a Duo even though you still play with the sorted seeds could you tell me about that decision yeah I like to be home at 9 yeah it's 6:00 to 9: it's amazing I don't like being at the bars all late and kind of a I love people but I'm kind of an introvert guy so I don't I'm boring I'm 40 I I want to just play restaurants bring Good Vibes and go home with the band I do love playing like when I go to a big city my my main focus will be on both but will be on songwriting and band style yeah those like smaller venues and more like dinner hour shows or more suited for like a solo or Duo right is that kind of yeah of course yeah and I love it because you know me and B are so close that I rarely ever go to a gig and I'm like when you're stressed out I'm like oh I gotta play it's always with bid and he's so positive and so fun to play with that we actually look ex like forward to it like last night we were at the Red Room and he was real tired it's just it's stressful we've done like you know 30 shows in a row since summer still just going there and be a little irritable and stressed out and then we just see each other and we just click he's just he's like one of my soul brothers in life he really is that's awesome yeah it's great to have those kind of connections with people in your life cool all right Brent well I'll let you go but hey I appreciate you jumping on this real quick and and chat with me thank you I'm going swimming and thank you so much for having me