ABOUT

Jeremy Moses Curtis — “Moses” to his bandmates — is better known for his work as the bassist for artists as diverse as Booker T, Twinemen, Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst, Caitlin Canty, and Chris Smither, or as the composer in the instrumental band Thank God For Science. A musician par excellence, a card-counter, the minister of the low end.

But in the spring of 2022, Curtis approached his old friend and road companion Kris Delmhorst to help him shepherd a pile of his own songs into the world. A series of observations, reflections, love letters to the times lived through and the people loved along the way, Midlife Chrysler is the fruit of that collaboration.

Drawing from a chaotic and peripatetic childhood, twenty-five years in the tour bus, the vagaries of marriage and fatherhood, the right drugs and the wrong ones, Curtis turns in a collection of songs that inhabit the borderland of memory and forgiveness.

In ten starkly rendered songs Midlife Chrysler locates the tension between here and gone, love and motion, music and silence, work and calling in a country where the exceptions make all the rules, and everything feels like a racket, except music. The big mystery, the one that still brings people together. 

CONTACT

Booking: Liam Farrell - tweedriverbooking@gmail.com

Label: Blueblade Records - blueblade@jeffreyfoucault.com

General inquiries: Moses - jmcurtis72@gmail.com

Instagram: @fancyassmusic

YouTube: @jeremymosescurtis

Facebook: @jeremymosescurtis

CREDITS

Midlife Chrysler was recorded in May 2022 at Great North Sound Society in Parsonsfield, Maine. Engineered and Mixed by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter) and prduced by Kris Delmhorst, the album features musicians handpicked by Curtis including Jeff Berlin on drums (Bow Thayer, Jeffrey Foucault), Matt Murphy on Upright and Electric bass (Eilen Jewell), and Mike Castellana on Pedal Steel and Electric guitars (The Blue Ribbons, Amy Correia, Eddie Kirkland).

All songs written by Jeremy Moses Curtis - JASPEROOMUSIC(SESAC) “Little Painted Scenes” written by Jeremy Moses Curtis and Kris Delmhorst Big Bean Music (ASCAP)

PRAISE

"Destined to become one of my most listened to personal favorite albums. Musically refreshing and a talented lyricist." — Booker T

“Midlife Chrysler is the kind of record it takes a lifetime of music to make: wry and wise, heavy and light, simple in the best ways, with an uncanny turn of phrase and a bone-deep pocket… I hear Tweedy in the magpie eclecticism, Prine in the strangeness that lands, Bobby Charles in the patient groove. American music is starving. This is a banquet.”

— Jeffrey Foucault

“Jeremy Moses Curtis sings songs that are more like conversations draped across a landscape that is in constant movement. Folk tales of ordinary moments, observations and revelations.”

-Dana Colley (Morphine)

“Spinning Tires,” Jeremy Moses Curtis

“I’ve spent my life spinning tires,” sings Jeremy Moses Curtis, sublime and weary. “I pay the bills, remember the highlights, thank my stars when the weekend arrives.” So worn out, so beautiful, like something between “Nashville Skyline” and “Blood on the Tracks,” an old Wilco ballad and Jason Isbell on NyQuil Extra Strength. As a sideman and producer, Curtis spent most of his career helping others make great stuff (Booker T, Jeffrey Foucault, Tim Gearen). On this lonely, wonderful tune — and all over new album “Midlife Chrysler” (how’s that for a fall album title?) — Curtis makes his own magic out of a sort of noir version of Americana.

-Jed Gottlieb (The Boston Herald)

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credit: Joe Navas