User:JJ Jenkins

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JJ Jenkins

A native of Alameda California, an island in the San Francisco Bay, JJ is a guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter. JJ has been writing and recording songs with George Petersen for the past 20 years both for ARIEL and other artists. He occasionally performs solo and with other bands and produces records for a variety of artists. JJ is also a musicologist of note specializing in compositions of the early 20th century. His songwriting influences include (in no particular order) the Beatles, Becker and Fagen, Don Henley, Frank Loesser, the Gershwins, Duke, Dylan, Arlo, Woody, Fats (both of ‘em), Hoagy, Mozart, Nesmith, Nilsson, Newman, Smokey, Stevie, and the late, great Warren Zevon. JJ and George are also the authors of “Crazy Campsongs,” a whacked hardback collection of children’s songs illustrated by famed MAD magazine artist Jack Davis