John Snell the Tenth

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Minnesota native John Snell (the Tenth) started writing music when he was just fifteen, but his musical admiration was apparent at an even earlier age. Johns mother can attest to him dancing to the hum of the vacuum cleaner while he was still in cloth diapers. Since these early days, JS10 has written over 200 songs, grown out of diapers, and released 5 full-length albums (Including In The Key Of Vacuum, The Alien Highway, Audibly Oriented, and recently The Clock Stops Here). Vocal training was started on John in his third grade of school; his writing wavering melodic harmonies is a result of singing nine years with organized choirs. And yes, he is actually John Snell the Tenth.his fathers John Snell the Ninth and everything.
Ignition to On Position is the most recent album in the Catalog. Musicians include Peter Anderson, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Michael Lewis and his Father Greg Lewis, Ryan Smith, T-bone Ted Thomas, Zack Lozier and Devon Evans on percussion. It was recorded on a 24 track 2 inch tape machine by Tom Herbers at Third Ear Recording Studio in Minneapolis. The new album is diversely arranged with orchestration including string players from the Minnesota Chamber Orchestra (backing a live studio performance of "A Message with Perspective" by John Snell, Jeremy Ylvisaker and Peter Anderson). And several songs on the new album have live french horn, saxophone and trumpet.
John also gathered some great singers in Minneapolis together to sing on the Song on Global Warming. The finale of the song has a flood of guest singers including The Original Mark Edwards, Mark Mallman, Chris Perricelli (of Little Man), Ryan Smith and Kat Smith (of The Melismatics), Maria May and Allison (of The Owls), Josh and Jenny Richardson (of The Flavor Crystals & Luke's Angles), and Matt and Nate Stevens (of Mad Love, Wookie Foot, The New Primatives & the Beads). The song will be on John's new studio album due out early 2008.
The previous Studio album is titled The Clock Stops Here. But 2008 saw the completion of a double album of strange home recordings. It's titled "Peculiar Songs for a Particular Audience--The complete home recordings of John Snell the Tenth". Both of these albums (and others) are available at http://www.JohnSnellX.com. To read quotes from John Snells Journals, to read song lyrics and philosophical writings, or to download MP3s, visit http://www.johnsnellx.com/newindexj.htm. John's goal for the future is to release albums fast enough to keep up with his song writing and artwork compositions.
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