Jason Falkner - Other Groups

Other Groups

In 1993, Falkner worked with Fabulon as a guest musician. This led to jobs as a session player for several other bands, and he worked in this capacity when he met Jon Brion. Reluctantly breaking his vow against joining another band, he found himself in The Grays with Jon Brion, Buddy Judge, and Dan McCarroll. Composed of three separate songwriters/lead singers/multi-instrumentalists and a drummer, the band fervently disliked the pitfalls and self-imposed politics of most rock bands and did all in their power to avoid them. In spite of this, musical differences led to a rift between members. They released only one album, 1994's Ro Sham Bo, before disbanding.

Afterwards, he continued recording in his home studio, with the intention of releasing an all-covers album; however this album, and most of its songs, was left unreleased until 2001, when, titled Everyone Says It's On and augmented with demos of songs released and left over from his two solo albums, it was issued by Air Mail Recordings, a small Japanese independent label.

In 1995 he worked with Eric Matthews on his album It's Heavy in Here, which led to a recording contract as a solo artist with Elektra.

Falkner also collaborated as a songwriter, producer, instrumentalist and backup vocalist with singer-songwriter Brendan Benson on Benson's first two albums, One Mississippi (1996) and Lapalco (2002). Benson is currently a member of The Raconteurs.

Falkner produced "The Tourniquet" by the Norwegian singer-songwriter called "Magnet" in 2006.

In 2009, Falkner collaborated with Dutch singer and guitarist Anne Soldaat on the album "In Another Life", co-writing several songs and getting credit as the album's producer and mixer. The same year he also produced the acclaimed Daniel Johnston's new album Is and Always Was. Johnston wrote all the songs and Falkner added guitar, bass and keyboards.

In 2011 he produced "Franklin 101" 2nd album of a French pop band "TV Guests" and a Norwegian singer "Thom Hell".