Dan Jewett - Music

Music

Jewett was a founding member, guitarist and songwriter for the Bay Area rock band, The Himalayans. The Himalayans featured singer, songwriter Adam Duritz before the formation of the Counting Crows. Jewett co-wrote the song "Round Here," the Himalayans song borrowed by the Counting Crows to become the second hit off their 1993 release August and Everything After. Duritz discusses these early days, The Himalayans and "Round Here" in a Rolling Stone article entitled "Adam Duritz: 1991 and Everything After." "Round Here" has been performed on The Howard Stern Show, Late Show with David Letterman and has appeared on television shows such as Party of Five. The song was also covered by the band Panic! At the Disco and appeared in the 2011 movie Something Borrowed (film) covered by PT Walkley.

The album She Likes the Weather was produced by Jewett from a December 1991 studio recording and their original demo tape, produced by Counting Crows guitarist David Bryson. She Likes the Weather was re-released in April 2007 by Duritz' boutique record label Tyrannosaurus Records.

Jewett helped many Bay Area bands sharpen their sound working as a producer out of San Francisco's now defunct Found Sound Studio. He has played and written songs for numerous bands such as The Batmen, Groove Pigs and Creeping Charlies. In 1995 Jewett and popster Allen Clapp, calling themselves The Winthers, wrote the song "Where's Larry?" which appeared on the spinART Records compilation Lemonlime. Members of Jewett's first band, Foster City–based The Batmen, included Allen Clapp as well as Maz Kattuah and Larry Winther of The Mummies.

Jewett currently plays with The Hollyhocks, a Bay Area–based indie-pop band. The band released its debut album, Understories, on Mystery Lawn Music in June 2012.