Jay Nash

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With Some Kind of Comfort, Jay Nash recalls a Los Angeles thought to be long since extinct, a romantic dream land where inspiration flowed from one artist to another with songs about late nights, friends and lovers, songs which grew organically and were created spontaneously. He’s a throwback for sure, smart with a hook, and brave enough to bare the fragile truth in a song.

His debut for KUFALA Recordings, Some Kind of Comfort, is a document of Nash’s rising star, as well as a personal diary. It’s an album rooted in the classics—Cat Stevens, the Dead, Dylan—but breezy and airy enough to swoon fans of acoustic pop from coast to cast. Mixed entirely to analog tape, the album exudes a warmth rarely found in many of today’s recordings. As Some Kind of Comfort chronicles the lives of conflicted lovers, it wears the influence of the past few years in which Nash’s world has gotten increasingly hectic and, at times, complicated

“One of the strongest voices in the Los Angeles singer songwriter scene,” Nash has “Loose, gorgeous melodies and songs full of confidence but without swagger”, says Jeff Miller of the Los Angeles Times.

In 2002, after scoring gigs and kicking off a Monday-night residency at what was then called Bar F2 (now known as Room 5), Nash started booking other bands at the club, and quickly thereafter began forming tight friendships with many of the artists that he looked up to. In a sense, Some Kind of Comfort, is the embodiment of the singer/songwriter scene Nash helped create through these Room 5 residencies and song-swapping sessions.

When it came time to record the tracks that would become Some Kind of Comfort, Nash extended invitations to his entire Room 5 posse. Whoever was there at the time dictated what was cut, creating a rare free-form, family vibe. Having felt uninspired in recent years, Nash likened the experience to a “creative awakening.” Recorded over a continuous 48-hour session in North Hollywood, the album features Nash’s core band of bassist Matt Delvecchio and ex-Charlie Hunter drummer Chris Lovejoy, with guests Gabriel Mann, Adrianne, Stewart Cole, Sally Jaye, Joe Purdy, Krister Axel, Geoff Pearlman, Bart Ryan, Chet Dixon and Chris Pierce.