Capture Music presents The Release of Nesting - Saturday @ the Workplay Theatre w/ The White Oaks, RandyPan,Mike Creager of Capture Music, and Irv The Birthday Guy

'Songs From Beyond The Leaves' has been reviewed by one of the industry's best Indie magazines! The Big Takeover's editor, Jack Rabid, has placed the review in his Top 40 at 38. Others in the Top 40 include Death Cab For Cutie (3), Band Of Horses (9), and Willie Nelson (13) just to name a few!



Issue No. 62 of The Big Takeover also features REM, My Morning Jacket, Built To Spill, New Pornographers, and many other great artists. You can pick up a copy at Joe Muggs, Barnes and Noble, and many record stores across the US and Canada.

click here to watch new music video for "Skeletons"

(Short but Sweet)


Hear/Say Magazine Review


Review in October 2007 issue of Hear/Say Magazine



Bands of the Month: by Deborah Singer

Who: Jesse Payne

What: He has a beautiful yet very different voice that mixes together well with his guitar skills.

On The Web: jessepayonline.com

Sounds Like: If Snow Patrol were a one-man band

Stand Out Single: "In the Morning"

Grade: A-

"Thief Among Us" featured on Laser's Edge 2007 Sampler along with Sondre Lerche, Ryan Adams, Josh Rouse, Rufus Wainwright, Marc Broussard, The Avett Brothers, and Vulture Whale

Well, today marked the pre-release of the ep, "Songs From Beyond The Leaves." It became official at 8:30 this morning on FOX 6 Good Day Alabama. It has been pre-released at Laser's Edge in Homewood, AL and on cdbaby and iTunes! You may also purchase these songs straight off our myspace page, thanks to SNOCAP's online stores!


We would like to thank Naomi Muchiri for all of her support and kindness in not only promoting us but the entire Birmingham music community. Also, thanks to FOX 6 for helping mark the pre-release of the ep (one that I'm personally very excited about). Thanks to everyone who has emailed and commented as well!


We are currently negotiating a tour schedule set to take place late Fall 2007 and into the Spring of 2008. We will keep you posted.


Be sure to check out the myspace site, MyMusic Birmingham in our top friends section!
until next time,

JP


links to video footage of the show:

myfoxal.com
myspace

Degrees Of A Season

I awoke this morning with a fever that I thought would have broken during the night. It's as if my body took all it could throughout the year and finally had enough. Thankfully, there were no footsteps, voices, or noise of any kind to irritate my head. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, cursing my illness but feeling obligated to rise. As the sunlight seeped through the crevasses between the blinds, my squinting eyes focused on a piece of chocolate posing like a statue on my bed stand. The milk chocolate, wrapped in foil, quickly reminded me that, despite my fever, it was Christmas morn.

This season has a funny way of mixing emotions until you become completely confused on how you are actually feeling. Gifts seem to mend depression, which in turn, always has made me feel somewhat greedy. The feeling of greed subsides as the smiles on my family's faces bring a sense of joy. Of course, the joy is promptly forgotten when siblings decide to argue about the most insignificant things. This usually brings on feelings of frustration and regret. Frustration stemmed from the time you have wasted arguing, and the regret you have for spending so much on their gift. Yet, as the day marches on, all of these feelings seem to merge into somewhat of a dark sense of happiness.

Still laying in bed, I stretched my limbs and prepared myself to stand. As I sat up, feet now touching the floor, I realized that everyone was still asleep. I snuck back to the kitchen, fixed a cup of coffee, and grabbed my guitar. It felt like the first time this year that I had played my guitar just to play. I wasn't getting ready for a show or gearing up for the studio. I was simply playing music. Other peoples' music.

An hour or so must have passed before the family began waking up. I was smiling from my gut with my harmonica around my neck and guitar hanging from my shoulders. I felt like a child. Suddenly, the fever that had loomed over me, was gone. All forms of negativity had slowly disappeared. Through all the work that had been done, the tours that had been traveled, and the recordings that had been released, I felt somewhat relieved that 2006 was close to an end. Not for reasons of animosity, but due to the fact that 2007 would soon begin. I was thankful for a beginning. I was thankful for an ending. Most of all, I was thankful for the ones that I love.

We are truly blessed.

peace.
JP