Selection of Ghosts I've Met Press
06.04.10"Ghosts I've Met balance out a sincere delivery of late-night head-on-the-bar songs and slow-burning love ballads for the brokenhearted. What's even more impressive is that this wonderful sound comes from a band without a record on the shelves." - Portland Mercury
"The loneliness in their music feels like less of a curse and more like it did in '70s country music, when isolation was a welcome but no less painful blessing." - Seattle Weekly
"The group's contemplativ...
(more)"Ghosts I've Met balance out a sincere delivery of late-night head-on-the-bar songs and slow-burning love ballads for the brokenhearted. What's even more impressive is that this wonderful sound comes from a band without a record on the shelves." - Portland Mercury
"The loneliness in their music feels like less of a curse and more like it did in '70s country music, when isolation was a welcome but no less painful blessing." - Seattle Weekly
"The group's contemplative, melancholy tunes never descend into nostalgia or self-pity they're the quiet guy in the corner spinning fascinating yarns for anyone with the attention span to listen."
-Nashville Scene
Selection of Ghosts I've Met Press
06.04.10"Ghosts I've Met balance out a sincere delivery of late-night head-on-the-bar songs and slow-burning love ballads for the brokenhearted. What's even more impressive is that this wonderful sound comes from a band without a record on the shelves." - Portland Mercury
"The loneliness in their music feels like less of a curse and more like it did in '70s country music, when isolation was a welcome but no less painful blessing." - Seattle Weekly
"The group's contemplative, melancholy tunes never descend into nostalgia or self-pity they're the quiet guy in the corner spinning fascinating yarns for anyone with the attention span to listen."
-Nashville Scene
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Location: Seattle, WA, United States
Formed in: 2005
Label: Yer Bird Records
"Ghosts I've Met" is a musical project that came to be in Seattle in 2005 by singer songwriter & musician Sam Watts. There are often a cast of musicians that find themselves anchored by the songwriting talents of Sam Watts that then become "Ghosts I've Met".
In late 2005 the band featuring Ben Blankenship and Brent Arnold both former members of the Seattle band Modest Mouse traveled to Nashville to record "Hidden Driveways and Sunken Ships" at the Kitty Wells Family Studio.
The songs were Watts's first collection of songs. The record although never released gained the band quite a following resulting in Frequent rotation on Seattle's famous indie radio station K.E.X.P.and two on-air performances and countless shows up in the Seattle area. During this time Watts penned over thirty songs and recorded numerous home-made demo's that are piled into many a hard-drive.
In 2006 Sam Watts left Seattle for Brooklyn, NY to start work on new material with Margaret White of Sparklehorse and Brent Arnold (Modest Mouse, Built To Spill) also joining the band was drummer Michael Lerner of the Antlers.
That lineup returned to Nashville in 2007 to record another batch of songs that were also never released but were sold as a tour e.p that warranted a cross country tour where the band played at top venues such as Stubbs in Austin, TX, Hotel Congress in Tuscon, AZ and The Bottleneck in Lawrence, KS.
After the tour Sam Watts returned to New York to drum up ideas for the next move. This time was spent focusing on the lyric writing of the newest songs with more attention than ever. At this Time Watts formed a great lasting friendship with fellow songwriter Darren Jessee of Ben Folds Five and frontman of the band Hotel Lights. Jessee was a huge influence on Sam Watts and introduced him to many authors and poets that have since shaped the songwriting. Darren Jessee plays piano on the batch of songs that Watts and Co. would record called "Payphone Patience".
