James Pequignot - Brent Kirby's 10x3 9.6.2023
Channel: VidMag Media
Date: 2023-09-26

From Cleveland's Scene Magazine:

Pequignot, who grew up in Richmond Heights before moving to Macedonia at age 15 got hooked on songwriting after his parents bought him an 8-track digital recorder. “I had been writing songs for a couple of years at that point, but after I got that recorder, I started getting into recording,” he says one afternoon from Dark Current Productions, the studio where he rehearses and records with the local indie band Terrycloth Mother. “My favorite bands at that time were Barenaked Ladies, which got me into wanting to be a songwriter, and They Might Be Giants, who made me want to do self-recording. I was 17 visiting my sister in Los Angeles, and I went with her boyfriend to see this documentary about Wilco and [2001’s] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. That opened my whole musical world up.”  

While he was still in high school, he released his first album, Rockefeller. “It was terrible,” Pequignot says. “I listened to a bit of it not that long ago and had to turn it off.” Undeterred by that first attempt, he went on to release four solo albums between the ages of 15 and 25. “I’ll still put on the last one occasionally,” he says. Over the past 15 or so years, Pequignot has also played in local indie acts such as Emmet and the Singular.   

You can hear his music at https://iprefersadsongs.com/