Jason Riley
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BIO
Riley’s uniquely personal playing style, an improvisation-based approach utilizing “live” looping and tongue-in-cheek technical and technological effects, is demonstrated through his humble stage presence, acclaimed work with acoustic and electric instruments and heart-felt tributes to his many musical influences. His versatility of style, mood and character is seemingly unlimited: he can play soft and subtle, frantic and aggressive, he can swing, he can rock, he can play unaccompanied, with other guitarists or with symphony orchestra. His work on stage not only reflects his understanding of classical form and balance, but shows a highly original combination of this classical/rock/jazz background that very few guitarists can successfully execute in live performance. Jason has won competitions and reader’s polls in both the rock and country genres and has opened for and performed with national and international artists. He has also made numerous radio and television appearances. When not on tour, Jason serves as adjunct professor of guitar at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS and Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph, MO. He has also served as co-director at the Festival Chartres – an international guitar festival in Chartres, France.
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song list
Layla
Brain Damage
Take the $ and Run
Wonderful Tonight
Lay Down Sally
Flowers on the Wall
Wind Cries Mary
Never Going Back Again
Stormy Monday
Oye Como Va
Yesterday
Fire and Rain
Come Together
No Woman No Cry
Friend of the Devil
All Along the Watchtower
Whiskey River
People Get Ready
What Would You Say
Sweet Caroline
Have A Cigar
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink
Evil Ways
Slip Sliding Away
Sundown
Sweet Home Chicago
Tequila Sunrise
The Thrill is Gone
Walk This Way
The Weight
What I got
Black Betty
Bulls on Parade
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
All Around the Kitchen
Stand By Me
Instrumental
Sunburst (120)
Recuerdos (120)
Samba (96)
Canon in G (136) slapback
The Claw (96)
Jiffy Jam (118)
Vals #3 (150)
Invention #4 (150) loop
The Cascades (114)
Canarios (104)
Waltz #2
Bron-y-aur
Angel Foot (110)
Black Mountain Side (122)
Classical Gas (148)
Prelude in Dm (88)
Prelude to a Kiss
Bourree (114)
Sweet Apple
Stella By Starlight
What a Wonderful World
Rainbow Connection
Georgia On My Mind
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Amazing Grace
Instrumental Loops
Bright Size life
Take 5
Vals #2 (146)
Which One’s Dave
Dozen Gypsies
I’m the Man
Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Stang’s Swang
House of the Rising Sun
Grete (92)
Donna Lee
Chitlins con Carne
Blue Monk
Blue Bossa
Villalobos Blues
CJam Blues
Minor Swing (140)
Peter Gunn
Walk, Don’t Run
Scuttle Buttin’
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Blackbird
Froggy
Andante
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