Jeremy Bass

Jeremy Bass grew up in Massachusetts, went to school in Chicago, and lived in New York City for 20 years before recently finding his way to a little cabin in Woodstock, NY. “I had been coming up here for the better part of 10 years, working with collaborators and other musicians I knew here,” he said. “We did a couple of residencies, but we had a chance to come up here and rent a small cabin on a friend’s property. It’s a little tight quarters, but so is an apartment in New York City,” he quipped.

He decided to make the switch official – which coincided with the work Jeremy was starting to do musically anyway. His new song, Cabin Songs, is actually named after the cabin he is living in. “I essentially came up here with my guitars and started a new musical adventure.”

Reflecting on his musical trail that led him to Woodstock, Jeremy said, “I’m a guitarist and I’m obsessed with guitars, but I have to admit that the first thing that really pulled me in was the synthesizer,” he recalled. “My parents took me to a music class when I was three years old, and they had this crazy little machine with these keys on it, and it lit up, and made all these crazy sounds, and I just could not stop playing with it – so they got me piano lessons, playing classical piano of all things – but I got the rock and roll bug and the guitar started calling me, so after a while I picked up the guitar.”

Jeremy said in a recent press release; “I’d been a classical guitarist since I was very young, and still am, but I’d made songwriting my world for a long time. I wanted to bring these two passions together.”

And the result is Cabin Songs; Instrumental songs in an Americana, Celtic, classical, finger picking style that takes you on a journey through a cabin in the mountains vibe. Jeremy taught himself Travis picking, and alternative thumb patterns; patterns he’d never really learned, but wanted to showcase on this project.