Jesse Dayton
{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}
{{For|the 19th-century New York politician|Jesse C. Dayton}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
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| image = Jesse Dayton.JPG
| caption = Dayton in 2014
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| birth_place = Beaumont, Texas
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| genre = {{Hlist|Alternative country{{cite web |url=https://www.houstonpress.com/houston/Print?oid=6566723 |title=Local Rotation |last=Wood |first=Roger |date=September 23, 1999 |work=Houston Press |access-date=2023-07-19}}|rockabilly{{cite web |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/How-Texas-musician-Jesse-Dayton-avoided-becoming-13276245.php |title=How Texas musician Jesse Dayton avoided becoming a zombie |last=Dansby |first=Andrew |date=October 4, 2018 |publisher=Houston Chronicle |access-date=August 31, 2021}}
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| occupation = Musician, actor, record producer
| instrument = Guitar, singer
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| associated_acts = Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Glenn Danzig
| website = {{URL|http://www.jessedayton.com/}}
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Jesse Dayton is an American musician, actor and record producer from Austin, Texas best known for his guitar contributions to albums by country musicians including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson.{{cite web|url=http://www.indie911.com/directory/country-and-western/jesse-dayton |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060507125317/http://www.indie911.com/directory/country-and-western/jesse-dayton |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-05-07 |title=De beste bron van informatie over indie911. Deze website is te koop! |language=nl |publisher=Indie911.com |date= |access-date=2012-03-04 }}{{cite web|last=Solomon|first=Jon|title=Jesse Dayton Wonders Where the Protest Songs Have Gone|url=https://www.westword.com/music/jesse-dayton-talks-bill-clinton-rob-zombie-waylon-jennings-and-nazis-10969705|website=Westword|date=November 5, 2018|accessdate=December 3, 2018}} He is also notable for his collaborations with horror film director Rob Zombie, who has commissioned Dayton on multiple occasions to record music to accompany his films.
Career
Dayton was born in Beaumont, Texas, where he was raised on the music of George Jones, Hank Williams, and Lefty Frizzell, all the while harboring an affinity for the spirit of punk with bands like the Clash. After touring with two rockabilly bands, the Road Kings and the Alamo Jets, Dayton ventured off into solo territory, recording his Americana-chart-topping record Raisin' Cain.{{cite web|last=Gray |first=Christopher |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:93829 |title=Austin Music Database |publisher=The Austin Chronicle |date= |accessdate=2012-03-04}}
With Lucinda Williams Dayton performed at Bill Clinton's second inaugural ball.
Since then Dayton has released several different solo albums and worked with a variety of country rock artists, most notably Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash on Right for the Time (1996){{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Right-Time-Waylon-Jennings/dp/B000000NRU |title=Right for the Time: Waylon Jennings: Music |website=Amazon |date= |accessdate=2012-03-04}} after Jennings injured his picking thumb and required a guitar stand-in. Dayton also contributed guitarwork on albums by the Supersuckers and Kris Kristofferson.
In 2004, horror film director Rob Zombie commissioned Jesse Dayton to record an album for the fictional characters Banjo and Sullivan from his sophomore feature The Devil's Rejects. The resulting album was a collection of tongue-in-cheek honky-tonk country entitled Banjo & Sullivan: The Ultimate Collection. In Zombie's Halloween II, Dayton performs as the lead singer and guitarist of the fictional psychobilly band Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures. He released an album entitled Rob Zombie Presents...Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures on August 28, same day as the film Halloween II premiered.[http://www.fangoriaonline.com/features/halloween/2731-halloween-ii-captain-clegg-a-the-night-creatures-cd-on-the-way.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607093202/http://www.fangoriaonline.com/features/halloween/2731-halloween-ii-captain-clegg-a-the-night-creatures-cd-on-the-way.html|date=June 7, 2009}}[http://www.fangoria.com/musick/lists-of-doom/2893-exclusive-lists-of-doom-xvi-capt-cleggs-top-10-horror-films.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620001145/http://www.fangoria.com/musick/lists-of-doom/2893-exclusive-lists-of-doom-xvi-capt-cleggs-top-10-horror-films.html|date=June 20, 2009}} Following this, Jesse Dayton wrote and directed the 2013 horror film Zombex, starring Malcolm McDowell, Lew Temple and Sid Haig.{{Cite web|last=Whittaker|first=Richard|date=May 20, 2013|title=Jesse Dayton Walks With a 'Zombex'|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2013-05-20/jess-dayton-walks-with-a-zombex/|access-date=2021-02-18|website=www.austinchronicle.com|language=en-US}}{{Citation|last=Dayton|first=Jesse|title=Zombex|date=2013-10-26|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1916763/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|type=Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller|others=Lew Temple, Malcolm McDowell, David Christopher, Sid Haig|publisher=Baumant Entertainment|access-date=2021-02-18}}
In 2014 he toured with John Doe both as the opening act and a member of Doe's backing band. In 2015 Dayton played guitar in the band X on their US tour, filling in for Billy Zoom who had been diagnosed with cancer. In 2016 he again toured with John Doe as well being the opener on the Supersuckers European and US tours.
On September 16, 2016, he released his ninth album titled The Revealer on his Hardcharger Records imprint through Blue Élan Records. This was followed by The Outsider in 2018.{{Cite web|date=2018-06-08|title=Jesse Dayton: The Outsider « American Songwriter|url=https://americansongwriter.com/jesse-dayton-outsider/|access-date=2021-02-17|website=American Songwriter|language=en-US}} 2019 saw the release of a live album, On Fire in Nashville, and Mixtape Volume 1, a collection of covers.{{Citation|title=On Fire in Nashville|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/6piEzYrtM6CKlyWvPb7nU6|language=en|access-date=2021-02-18}}{{Cite magazine|last=Hudak|first=Joseph|date=2019-08-05|title=Hear Jesse Dayton Cover Neil Young, AC/DC on New Album 'Mixtape Volume 1'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/jesse-dayton-mixtape-album-stream-listen-867446/|access-date=2021-02-18|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}} In 2020, Dayton released the Gulf Coast Sessions EP, as well as Texas '45 RPM Showdown, a limited 7 inch vinyl made in conjunction with Record Store Day.{{Cite magazine|last=Hudak|first=Joseph|date=2020-07-22|title=Jesse Dayton Is a One-Man Band on New EP 'Gulf Coast Sessions'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/jesse-dayton-is-a-one-man-band-on-new-ep-gulf-coast-sessions-1032076/|access-date=2021-02-18|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}{{Citation|title=RSD '20 Special Release: Jesse Dayton - Texas 45 RPM Showdown|url=https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/11979|language=en|access-date=2021-02-18}}
On October 30 & 31, 2021, Jesse played guitar at the Danzig Sings Elvis shows (along with Glenn Danzig-vocals, Steve Zing-drums, and Ronnie King- piano) at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Awards and honors
In 2023, Dayton and musician Samantha Fish received OffBeat
Discography
=Albums=
- Raisin' Cain (Justice, 1995)
- Hey Nashvegas! (Stag, 2001)
- Tall Texas Tales (Stag, 2003)
- Country Soul Brother (Stag, 2004)
- Banjo & Sullivan: The Ultimate Collection with Lew Temple (Hip-O/UMe, 2005; as 'Banjo & Sullivan')
- South Austin Sessions (Stag, 2005)
- Holdin' Our Own with Brennen Leigh (Stag, 2007)
- Captain Clegg and the Nightcreatures (Zombie A Go-Go/Stag, 2009; as 'Captain Clegg and the Nightcreatures')
- One for the Dance Halls (Stag, 2010)
- Jesse Sings Kinky (Stag, 2012; tribute to Kinky Friedman)
- Tall Walkin' Texas Trash (Dayton Productions, 2015; limited edition/sold only at shows)
- The Revealer (Hardcharger/Blue Élan, 2016)
- The Outsider (Hardcharger/Blue Élan, 2018)
- On Fire in Nashville (Hardcharger/Blue Élan, 2019)
- Mixtape Vol. 1 (Hardcharger/Blue Élan, 2019)
- Sings Doug Sahm & Townes Van Zandt (Texas 45 RPM Showdown!) [7" single] (Hardcharger/Blue Élan, 2020){{Cite web|title=Jesse Dayton - Texas 45 RPM Showdown - 7"|url=https://www.roughtrade.com/us/jesse-dayton/texas-45-rpm-showdown|access-date=2021-02-18|website=Rough Trade}}
- Gulf Coast Sessions (Hardcharger/Blue Élan, 2020){{Citation|title=Gulf Coast Sessions|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/3FilcGhbRHlEb87BV3KhxN|language=en|access-date=2021-01-26}}
- Beaumonster (Hardcharger, 2021)
- Death Wish Blues with Samantha Fish (Rounder, 2023)
- The Hard Way Blues (Hardcharger, 2024)
=With The Road Kings=
- The Roadkings (Bullet, 1993)
- Rockabilly (Bullet/My Way [Finland], 1994)
- Live At The Satellite Lounge! (Alter Ego, 1996 [1997])
- Road Kings (Surfdog/Hollywood, 1999)
- 17 Classics [compilation] (self release)
References
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External links
- [https://www.jessedayton.com Official website]
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Category:American male guitarists
Category:American alternative country singers
Category:American male singer-songwriters
Category:American country singer-songwriters
Category:Singers from Austin, Texas
Category:Guitarists from Texas
Category:Singer-songwriters from Texas
Category:Country musicians from Texas