James Germain & The Grey Gray Days

Soothing, yet visceral, James Germain’s lyrics show more of an acute approach towards musical narrative. A Seattle-based musician, his songs are more acoustic short stories, juxtaposing intimate imagery with abstract metaphors. His sophomore effort, Missing Pages, is a four song, self-released EP that hit streets in August of 2010. Often performing live as a four piece ensemble, James Germain & the Grey Gray Days, fans have often compared him to likes of the Weakerthans, Bright Eyes, and Damien Rice. Focusing more on bare-bones songwriting without getting lost in the current movement of throw-back, rugged farm songs, Missing Pages lends itself well as both a camp fire sing-along and rainy day ambience. James has appropriately shared the bill with talented bands Lucero, The Honorary Title, The Young Evils, Ghost of Kyle Bradford, Yuni in Taxco, Noah Gundersen and the Courage, Blue Checkered Record Player, Sadie Ava, Nick Boone Band, Paper Astronomer, The Coyotes, 17th Chapter, Starving Art Family, Kimo Muraki, Lost Dogma and has been seen on Seattle stages of Neumo’s, Chop Suey, the Tractor Tavern, Showbox SoDo, the Hard Rock Café, the High Dive, the Sunset Tavern, the ... more...