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Finally we are starting to see some progress, well to hear progress at least! The first single we are releasing from our album, is called Last Time Around.
It is a emotive love song that was written for Angie while I was away from her. I was sitting on a porch and had my guitar in my lap, and a person walked by the fence in front of me. I went to stand up because i thought it was Angie! I sat down and strummed three chords, F, Am, and G, and sand the words “I saw you there”.
My friend and band mate Chris helped work on the chorus and harmonies, with the final singing done by Angie herself for the win. Below is the final youtube link for free listening, and this tune is available on all platforms. please enjoy and let me know what you think!
This is the year of Singles. We’ve released three new songs this year. All songs feature the tender gentle sounds of Angie. A hero of feminity, a songwriter with the prowess of a cloud floating in the sky as if she’s always been there and knows exactly what sound should feels like.
All Music was recorded and produced with Joel Noftle. He has be instrumental in producing, recording, tracking and composing this music in his studio. as a day job, he is his School District’s paramount music teacher, with staff and admin asking weekly for him to come teach at their schools. He’s the expert we all want to have in our corner, and i’m grateful he agreed to take on this project.
This new album still pending release but named “Handle Was My Name” is a full of full production music, with session players, Will McCarty and Jason Noftle,
Last Time Around is a acoustic vibing song about the missing of a lover, the day before they arrive. Written at the door steps of family home in Penticton, BC, this song sings the love of my heart to that of my wife.
Confident Love is sweet duet of Angie and I, along with trio of guitars and other full live instruments, along with shakers and noise makers. This song gets it’s name from the mountains of Kootney National Park in British Columbia. While hiking and camping at Flow Lake at the base of the Rock Wall, these lyrics came to my mind and this song was born.
Cold Hard Cash was written long before my 6 child came into our lives. My sister has struggled with many things in her life, including all the things that promote a life less desired on the Downtown East Side of Vancouver. When i wrote this song, she had one daughter. That daughter moved in with family at 9 years old, is now married and graduated with a bachelors from UBC in linguistics and moving onto finishing her Masters in Social Work. My sisters youngest daughter, is now my daughter, and lives in our home. This song gets its name from that life that victimizes anyone that touches it. Cold Hard Cash was written for those daughters that I love, and you should love too.
Friends, Fans, Fam, my best wishes are that you are fantastic. If you are fantastic, then I know you are in the right head space.
Anything less that outstanding won’t do.
The past few pandemic years have been challenging to make music for me on a personal level. Keeping the financial status quo has been hard, and many other things have joined our focus. How ever for the past 2 years exactly, with my most loving wife, and extended family, we’ve been creating new music. Vocally speaking, this music is the best we’ve ever created. Angie together with myself on vocals, have created such epic sound scape, that I think it’s the best music we’ve ever created.
I’m excited and want you to know, that soon more music is coming. Jan 2024 will hold our glory.
Look for the brighter golden lining to all your dark clouds, and you’ll forever find the riches you seek.
Music Blog, News | Comments Off on My Ledge Still Waits…
Covid sucks, and deserves to die a horrible death! We released another Album during COVID and didn’t tour, didn’t get pysched, did do shows, didn’t do anything we wanted to, but that’s ok. because the music got out and that’s what we love. So to get fully stoked on life we are making more music. here is a link to the old ones however.
Crew, We have a new Album EP released today! It’s title is Parade on Fire, it’s been a long time coming, and full of all the tunes you’ve heard us play in the last 3 years. funky, rock ballads of fun and excitement, mixed with a ton of somber contemplation and angst! Enjoy and find us somewhere on social media and let us know what you think of it!
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Friends, Jared and the Social WOrker have been invited to play at the world famous international festival of sound and musicianry, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival! We are playing a full band, full sound set at the Railway Stage and Beer Cafe on June 21st, 2019. door is at 8PM. We will be fired up, new songs are being released every month on all platforms, so come watch if you care to do so, and share this event if you don’t!
Friends, I hope you are doing well. I’ve written up an advertisement on
Facebook. I did this because the show is happening at the famed Railway Club
which is now rebranded as “Railway Stage and Beer Cafe.” It’s the
Same place since 1932. This show for my band, Jared and the Social Worker, will
be a release of our first single from our Debut EP “Parade on Fire”.
You may think to yourself, “Jared, why are you doing this, why are you acting
like a young man when you are, in fact, becoming an old one? Doing the things
that young men do, wasting time, spending energy that you are running out of?”
This my friends is a
good set of observations.
Here is what I am:
I am 39, husband of a beautiful and supportive wife for 19 years. I own and run
a successful IT consulting business that has taken 15 years to gain a modicum
of success. I’m a lover of music. I’ve been writing poetry since I was 13. This
is when my mom and dad told me that my mom was going to die from AIDS. I’ve been
playing guitar (passionately and terribly) every week since I was 15.
I’m also a survivor of the kind of childhood abuse that they make movies about.
The kind of movie, that no matter the happy ending, no matter the 10 years of
counseling, lawyers, police, court cases and testimonies, and court sentences,
that you never feel resolution for. The kind that leaves a darkness that only
truth and light can drag into oblivion. The one thing that left me intact as I
passed through this hell was the love of an incredible family. They knew my
worth, knew my strength and knew my path.
My success has been measured. Any amount of success I have is from that love
that couldn’t protect me from the horrible things of my past but could hold me
tightly while my soul felt like it was being torn apart.
So every horrible
story you’ve seen on tv or on film, I have passed through that. It didn’t end
my life and I didn’t give up the challenge that is adversity. Even though that
small, violent voice said I should.
You may feel like
saying right now “Jared, why are you telling me this horrible story?” or “Why
are you trying to make me feel this way?”
What I’m actually
doing is sharing my story and sharing my reasons for why I started a band
called Jared and the Social Worker.
This band is not Jared and the Happy Story Tellers, Jared and the Easy
Memories, Jared and the Happy Coloured Rainbow Unicorn Dancers (which was an
original theoretical title we practiced with). After countless practices and
rehearsals and before our first show our band name still took 6 months to
create.
This band is all about bad things happening to good people. And those good
people wanting to stay good and stay on that right course regardless of the
previous examples that came before.
This band has given me a direction to help make sense of my childhood.
And provided an outlet to talk to others who didn’t have it as good as I did,
those that weren’t made whole.
I know every band in the world thinks that their music is amazing. I
know this. Just as I know that my music may not fit everyone’s taste. But we’ve
written outstanding rock tunes, peppered with punk ballads and dash of
romance.
You are going to love something from this album.
On our upcoming album “Parade on Fire”, our single “Young Savages” will
be available on all streaming and downloading platforms. This song is rock and
Roll at it’s finest. A simple, anthemic chorus and a catchy bridge that really
should be played nice and loud.
So we have a life
story, a show on March 2nd,
and we have a single coming out.
You are getting this message, so you know why you are seeing what you
are seeing in your Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, quora, Mewe, and other such
feeds. We are giving this effort every possible chance to find success. We are
advertising, posting without being spammy, and doing what we can to not be
weird or rude and respecting other’s space and time.
My friends thank you
for reading. Thank you for supporting and not blocking us over the last 3
years.
For details, check out
our secure site at Https://www.jaredandthesocialworker.com.
Here you can purchase some tshirts, other music from my past project, named
after my beautiful late step-father “Jared Fowler” band.
You can sign up for a
newsletter type thing in your email to stay directly up to date on things. We
are trying to find success in a dying industry and genre of music that almost
no one listens to. I wouldn’t trade any of our tunes for the inspiration from
someone I am not connected with.
If you are around the Valley, come out to the Railway Show on March 2nd. It’s going to be a show stopper. We are so stoked, and our
promoters are stoked to see how well our turnout can be. This is the kind of
show, we need absolutely everyone to show up for. This is the kind of show, the
takes JATSworker to the next level. So
you have a simple choice, encourage our groupthink delusion, or silently watch
a train wreck of success.
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We have our first single tune release happening on March 2nd, at the Railway Club. Young Savages is coming out!
My band Jared and the Social Worker start 2019 with a release of our new single “Young Savages” on March 2nd.
It was written for the youth of today and tomorrow. It was inspired by the book written by William Golding called “Lord of the Flies”. The book describes youth on an island, that when left without adult direction, they turn into murderous savages and civilization for them crumbles.
Jared and the Social Worker song “Young Savages” was written as a commentary for children and youth that are raised without parents, or without guidance, without help or direction on how to become better than their teenage selves. They are raised with parents for friends, and with friends as enemies. They have become savage.
“Young Savages” is written for those people that want help, that want supervision, that want stability, knowing that their lives will be better only once they realize the growth they need to go through. I was raised the best way my single mother could. She died of AIDS when i was 15, I was given no parental direction, except that I could choose whatever way I wanted to go. I was a young savage once, and I wrote this song for those that might be just like me.
Enough pontificating, this song plays hard and is sung loud. If you come please chant the chorus with us
“We’re Young Savages! We’re Just no ones kids Where are the villages We are Young Savages!”
March 2nd at the famed Railway Club, my band Jared and the Social Worker are performing our single, as well as original tunes from our up coming EP- “Parade on Fire.”
The show lineup will include:
BlackRiff Keith Kiss Me Jared and the Social Worker Cheese Haüg
This day will be the actual release to all digital play for our tune, found across all platforms that play such things amazingly.
Come and Listen to this epic night of music. Share this event if you can’t! Visit our website for more information and to stay current with all our events, merch, tunes, releases, videos, loves and hatreds. www.jaredandthesocialworker.com
Like us on Facebook and IG, add me on Facebook, enjoy our music. Do nothing or do everything. Listen to the music though.
Music Blog | Comments Off on What is your greatest fear Jared?
Meeting another a pedophile?
My children meeting a pedophile?
Becoming a wife beater?
Becoming a bad husband?
Becoming a terrible person?
Becoming a savage?
Losing my mind?
Losing my family and all that I love because of the lack of money?
Losing my friends?
Breaking Angie’s heart?
Destroying my faith?
Manipulating others directly?
Coersion?
Being a bad friend?
Hurting others?
Failing at fatherhood?
Failing at husbandom?
Not learning anything from your life?
Crying for no reason?
Being weak?
Being a small child?
Being a violated boy who let a man rape him?
Not confronting your fears?
Being fake?
Not saving people?
Not helping people?
These are my fears.
These are the fears in the deepest pit of my soul. I cried tonight writing them. I’m not sure why. I say that but I know why. Because it makes me feel better to know that if I can see my darkest fears ahead of me, that I can do everything I can to avoid them.
This is how I deal with my history of pain and abuse and violence and fear. I confront them and share them, so that I never feel alone with them.
Some people are born for competion. From day one they compete around everything around them.
I have never been this way and understanding it is foreign to me, like another language or breathing under water, it’s unatural.
In my simple understanding, I believe I was born to collaborate. Meaning working with others. One on one to help others, and in helping them, I am also helped. Sharing my struggles with others appropriately has been a goal. Not competing, but collaborating. Not working against but working with.
I think this is what I’m born to do. Anything outside this is foreign to me.
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FVMA – BOOOOOM!
We have made it to the FVMA awards this Wednesday! We are on the list for two categories for our new music in the Metal and Punk categories! We are so excited to even be invited! Thanks for the support team!
