Omaha, NE, native and singer/songwriter
Simon Joyner has been putting out delicate, intimate, mournful songs since 1993, when the One Hour label released his
Room Temperature CD.
The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll,
Heaven's Gate,
Songs for the New Year, and
Lousy Dance, as well as an EP (
Christine) and several singles followed through 1999. In 2001, along with his band
the Fallen Men,
Joyner released
To Almost No One, a tribute to ten singer/songwriters, including
Paul Siebel,
Anne Briggs,
Kris Kristofferson, and
Jerry Jeff Walker. The bleak but critically lauded
Hotel Lives arrived that same year, followed by the equally introspective
Lost with the Lights On in 2004. A compilation of singles and rarities,
Beautiful Losers, was released in 2006.
Skeleton Blues from Jagjaguwar Records appeared that same year. In 2008,
Joyner released
Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll on Team Love.
Out into the Snow followed in 2009 also on Team Love. ~ Gina Boldman, All Music Guide