Jason Bennett

Jason Bennett has been playing music in front of audiences for well over 30 years.  He's been in a barbershop quartet, a thrash metal band, a jazz band, a 90s rock band, an 80s hair band, a country band, a pop dance band, a biker band and even a polka band.

Jason's full name is Jason Bennett Greenwald.  First and middle name, Jason Bennett is the name chosen for this Americana project which began in 2017.  He began writing songs for the project thinking it was going to be a country music project.  After a couple songs had been written he realized it was mostly not country at all.  But, it wasn't rock, it wasn't blues, it wasn't jazz or even polka.  "What is this stuff I'm writing?" he wondered.  He asked a radio friend familiar with many genres and was told it's alt. Americana.

Jason's first EP was released in 2018.  It's called Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'.  It has a number of originals and a folky cover of Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' from Oklahoma! (the '!' is in the title though it is quite exciting nonetheless).  A brief tour followed where he crisscrossed America all the way to the Pacific and back.

Admittedly, the first EP is rough and unpolished.  But, the new 2022 release, simply titled COWS is nicely polished.   A considerable amount of time was taken to get parts just right.   On this new 12 song CD, there's a wide mix of genre influence.  A couple of the songs could even be called emo-folk.  Some are very country while others very indie.  Plus there's a countrified cover of late hair-band era Steelheart's I'll Never Let You Go.