Artist description Solo act with a little help from my friends.

Music Style AAA Pop Rock (Acoustic/Electric)

Musical Influences Beatles, Springsteen, Dire Straits, Elton John, Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, Poco, Badfinger, Procol Harum, Eagles, Tom Rush, John Gorka, The Band, Gerry Rafferty, Paul Simon, Brian Eno

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Artist History Journeyman musician and songwriter for more than three decades. Original and cover bands and an original solo act working from Maine to Guam. Current home is Austin, Texas with more singer/songwriters per hectare than anywhere else. Jeffrye sings and plays acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, bass, keyboards, harmonica and drums.

Group Members Jeffrye Glenn Tveraas

Instruments Voice, Guitars, Keyboards, Mandolin, Bass, Drums.

Albums CHESHIRE MOON (1998)

Press Reviews It's the third song, but start with "It's Over. " Tveraas makes reference in the liner notes to 1964, but it sounds more like the Raspberries from its plaintive but forceful vocal to its memorable happy guitar. ?You Pushed Your Love on Me" sounds very much like Gin Blossoms. The title song has a country/ pop feel thanks to an insistent mandolin line. On the folk side Tveraas offers "You & I" and ?This Guy Is Blue." They are, however, girl-guy songs, folk only in instrumental presentation. Lyrically, I associate ?folk" with mistreated immigrant farm workers and rivers poisoned by huge chemical companies.And then there are the rockers. ?Jeffty?s Boogie" is the best, a blues-tinged, guitar driver with a sax-like synth part. "Tonight's the Night" and ?Take Me With You" both have that night-pregnant-with-possibilities sound common to the best Meat Loaf. There's even a decent rock ballad called ?The Long Ride." Tveraas is a true veteran, with almost three decades of live performance behind him. And?get this?he also spent a few years composing video game soundtracks. (Star Wars Arcade?that's him.) Now he's settled into the Austin, TX area, so you have a chance to hear a craftsman at work either solo or accompaning other regional acts.

Additional Info Outer Green Records, South Paris, Maine

Location Austin, Texas - USA

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