James's New Show About Country Towns
A new project from James celebrating regional Australia
Black Crow Road
Words & music from Black Crow Road are available here.
Black Crow Road is available at all good record stores (distributed in Australia by MGM) and is available online from Waterfront Records.
Songs for a Season at Ghost Town Bridge
Songs for a Season at Ghost Town Bridge is a combined CD and book of songs and prose poems. The songs and poems in the book are also presented as a CD album of sung and spoken word performances. All the tracks are one-take recordings of James singing / reciting and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar or mandolin.
An excerpt from James' performance video,
Ghost Town Bridge, live at fortyfive downstairs
The CD/Book is available from Readings St Kilda, Carlton and State Library of Victoria stores or online here: Readings Online.
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James Griffin is a songwriter, singer, poet, spoken word performer and broadcaster who has shared concert stages with Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, co-written hit songs with Joe Camilleri and Lee Kernaghan and hosted literary television and radio programs.
James is a current recipient of a Creative Research Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria where he is researching Victorian country towns to complete a trilogy of Ghost Town Bridge song, poem and story collections.