Jamie Granger’s “True Hearted Kind” charms listeners with poignant lyrics and appealing melodies — a lyrical journey through museums, roadside motels, and the dreams of lost cowboys.

Y&T Music is very proud to announce the release of Jamie Granger's debut album, "True Hearted Kind." Jamie follows in the vaunted footsteps of his folk music heroes with a set of winsome and winning tunes that tell stories with both warmth and humor, his words and melodies intertwined with intricately finger-picked acoustic guitar. Jack Shawde produced "True Hearted Kind" with Diane Ward. They illustrate the songs with the occasional wash of reverb Americana electric guitar, banjo or even minimalist violin accompaniment; Ward adds a harmony vocal here and there. Mostly, they chose to keep the focus squarely on Jamie's worn-leather singing voice and acoustic guitar.

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About Jamie

All the people, places and events in your life, it is said, become the DNA markers of your personality. A great storyteller can draw from this internal well at will, and turn memories and reflections – along with made-up stuff, too - into words and music that resonate with others.

On True Hearted Kind, his debut album for Y&T Music, singer/songwriter Jamie Granger follows in the vaunted footsteps of his folk music heroes with a set of winsome and winning tunes that tell stories with both warmth and humor, his words and melodies intertwined with intricately finger-picked acoustic guitar.

The songs recall John Prine, Leo Kottke, Nick Drake and early Bob Dylan, along with the 1920s string band Charlie Poole’s North Carolina Ramblers (a particular favorite from Jamie’s dad’s record collection).

Brought up on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and later in a tiny cowtown in western Montana, Granger began collecting words and pictures as a youngster. “I think storytelling is the one thing that runs through both of those places,” he says. “On the island, everybody had stories to tell. They would tell them, embellish them and change them around. So I was always impressed by that. And intrigued by that.

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