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Justin King (born June 13, 1979) is an American musician and artist, from Eugene, Oregon. King runs a recording studio in Brooklyn, New York called Vinegar Hill Sound, as well as doing part-time war photojournalism, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.[ citation needed ]
King attended Marist High School, before attending South Eugene High School.[ citation needed ] He dropped out of high school as a sophomore and entered the San Francisco Art Institute to study painting.[ citation needed ] He began playing drums and guitar around age 14 and wrote and performed songs with his current bassist, Drew Dresman. King began to focus on acoustic guitar at age 19, and in 1999 he released his self-titled album, followed by Opening in 2000.[ citation needed ] In 2001, King recorded "Le Bleu".
King returned to the US and began construction on his own studio "Blackberry Hill". The studio took about two years to complete during which time King toured the country as a solo guitarist opening for James Taylor, B. B. King, Diana Krall, North Mississippi All-Stars, Al Green and others. Just after building Blackberry Hill King recorded another instrumental record, "I-XII". Shortly after that King started a band with James West (later replaced by Nadir Jeevanjee), Troy Sicotte (later replaced by Drew Dresman), and Ehren Ebbage (later replaced by Chris Plank). The band toured the country for about one year before being signed to a major label record deal with Epic Records in 2006.
The band recorded the self-titled "Justin King and the Apologies" record at King's Blackberry Hill studio as well as studios in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. The band broke up around the end of 2007. [1]
In 2001, King released Le Bleu . [2] [3] He assembled a new band with longtime friends Ehren Ebbage (lead guitar) and Drew Desman (bass). In 2005, drummer James West and was replaced by Nadir Jeevanjee.
On March 20, 2007, King and his band, after a long struggle, ended their contract with Sony BMG/Epic Records. [4] The band released a five-song EP, Fall/Rise, in spring 2007 before resuming touring, which included several performances in South Korea. The band's debut album, Justin King and The Apologies, was released on September 28, 2007.
His Myspace page announced the title of the new album as Humilitas Occidit Superbiam, and it was subsequently released digitally in November 2009.[ citation needed ]
1. Something About Angels
2. Spring
3. Sunday Morning
4. Scotland
5. Interlude
6. Sunshine
7. Square Dance
8. Sedona
9. Flying
10. Lullaby
11. For Jordan
1. She
2. Opening
3. Flying
4. After the Storm
5. Sunshine
6. Interlude
7. Riomaggiore
8. Something About Angels
9. Dreaming
1. Taps
2. Seville
3. After The Harvest
4. A Saucy Jig
5. Scrabo Tower
6. Northwest of Ju Ju
7. Loco Motives
8. Amazing Grace
9. Pam and John's House
10. August Train
11. Knock on Wood
12. Winter on The Hill
13. Ashokan Farewell
14. Paris Morning
15. Phunkdified
16. Child's Toy
17. Prinsengracht
18. The Mill Creek
19. Ashes
1. Beauty Bar
2. Change
3. Postcard
4. Devil and The Deep
1. Change
2. March 19th
3. Inside the Lines
4. Burning Bridges
5. 3 a.m.
1. On Our Sleeves
2. March 19th
3. Goodbye, Goodbye
4. Instrumental
5. Nowhere Fast
6. Walkaway
7. Sweetheart
1. Same Mistakes
2. Nowhere Fast
3. On Our Sleeves
4. Reach You
5. Rewind
1. Beauty Bar
2. Bailing The Titanic
3. Missing Something
4. Postcard
5. Hours
6. 25 Signs
7. Change
8. Sweetheart
9. Devil and The Deep
10. Same Mistakes
11. Bright and Dirty Lights
12. Outro
(Disk 2:
1. Nowhere Fast
2. Reach You
3. On Our Sleeves
4. Rewind
1. Mill Creek
2. So Close
3. Landing Pads
4. Guitar Shrapnel
5. Especially You
6. Skipping Stones
7. Irish Glen
8. Broken Blue
9. Dreams
10. Last Light
11. Periwinkle Dubs
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
7. VII
8. VIII
9. IX
10. X
11. XI
12. XII
(Same 12 Tracks from I ~ XII)
Bonus Tracks:
1. Spring
2. Scotland
3. Interlude
4. Square Dance
5. Sedona
6. Lullaby
7. title unknown [hidden track]
8. Black Sparrows
1. Almost There
2. Driving
3. Brightest As They're Passing By
4. Anchor In Your Veins
5. Rivers
6. No Escape
7. Sparrows
8. Homeward
9. On My Mind
10 A Toast
1. Your Black Hair
1. Paris Morning
2. Taps
3. Pam and John's House
4. August Train
5. Cadillac, France
6. Northwest of Ju Ju
7. Jig
8. Square Dance
9. Amazing Grace
10. Knock on Wood
11. Audra
12. After The Harvest
13. Untitled
14. Scrabo Tower
15. Locomotive
16. Phunkdified
17. Hilltop
18. With You (Bonus Track)
1. Alright
2. Sister
3. Don't Wait
4. Jenny
5. Can't Be
6. Fix It
7. Lonesome Nights
8. With You
9. The Valley
10. Thousand Yard
11. Ain't To Pray
12. Tomorrow
1. Adaline
2. Flood
3. Get Right
4. Tomorrow V2
1. Blink
2. Forest
3. Memory of You
4. Road Trip
5. First Frost
6. Fallen
7. Talking
1. Ok For Colors
2. Tennis Court
3. Fire And Glass
4. Cannonball
5. El Crepúsculo Duerme
6. Heartbeats
7. Thinkin Bout You
8. Something New
9. Come Away With Me
10. In Dreams
11. Shine
12. For Audra