Jay Nash joined forces with Matt Duke and Tony Luka for an EP called "TFDI" and the collaboration has paid off. Today "TFDI" sits a top the iTunes Singer Songwriter charts. The four song EP features a nice cover of The Band's "The Weight" and may represent a new promotional model for indie artists. By drawing on the fan base of multiple artists the release may spur more sales than a solo effort. Of course, individual releases get publicity too from the collaboration's success.

Jay Nash is not new to teaming up with fellow artists. He's collaborated with chart topper Sara Bareilles in the past and he brought long time show partner Garrison Starr to play with him on his Sun Studio Sessions appearance:



A full half hour version of Jay's Sun Studio Session will air this January on PBS and public tv stations (check local listings) across the country. Meanwhile you can check out more Jay Nash songs and tour dates here.

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Jay Nash is on a roll. He's been touring from coast to coast here in the States and managed to find time to head over to Copenhagen to record for his new EP, all the stars in Copenhagen that hits iTunes and other outlets on June 16th.

In Copenhagen, Jay's drummer Frederik Bokkenheuser assembled a band of his old friends - Søren Andersen, Jesper Edvarson and Lars Andresen. Together with Frederik, Nash and the Danish musicians spent two days in Copenhagen's legendary Medley Studio rehearsing and and recording the four new tracks.

The next stop on the tour for Nash was Berlin, where he met up with an old friend, singer/songwriter/producer, Erik Penny. Penny had just moved into his new studio space and Nash had the Copenhagen masters with him, so the two decided to take advantage of the situation and lay down some additional tracks. Penny added the ghostly synth sounds that help to define the spooky intimacy on "everything." Jay also borrowed Erik's 1960 Gibson ES-330 to add a little something extra to the the track "Rainiest September."

Once he was back home in LA, Jay got together with Grammy award winning engineer, Seth Atkins Horan to put the finishing touches on and mix the songs. The end result is a short collection of songs that sound like they were recorded in one continuous lock out session, though they traveled half way around the world in order to be fully realized. The bonus track "Baby Tornado" was recorded right at Sun Studio.

Meanwhile, check out Jay, accompanied by the talented Garrison Starr, perform "Hard Lesson To Learn" live from here at Sun Studio:



Never one to sit home Jay has a slate of dates around the country this month. You can find all of Jay's upcoming tour dates over on his MySpace page.

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Jay Nash is an L.A. based singer-songwriter who fits right in with the Hotel Cafe vibe (where he often plays). Best Music Live says Jay's sound "congers up similarities somewhere between John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Dave Matthews and Jack Johnson." I'd agree on the Cash and Johnson comparisons in particular. Jay makes it clear Johnny is an influence so it is particularly interesting to see Jay perform in the very room were "Walk the Line" and "Folsum Prison" where first recorded.

Here on this installment of Sun Studio Sessions Jay performs "Baby Tornado" and is joined by the talented Garrison Starr:



Jay is currently on tour with Greg Laswell, you can get dates here.

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