Jarvis Hart Music

This one has a little bit of a country vibe to it, and the premise is pretty straightforward (I think). Basically, a love song about taking a secondary position to the person you love and going where life takes you.

Here is my new single, called "In the City", which was released on Spotify today. I also put together a music video for it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kr9S9uqEgnA?si=Ua_50omt8lXaAlPQ

This is a fun little road trip song I wrote. It's acoustic pop rock with a slight country/folk vibe. I just released it to streaming today.

For some quick background, I previously had all my music listed under one "umbrella" artist, but it was all over the place in terms of genre, tone, subject, etc. Earlier this summer I made the decision to pull it all down and branch it into two entities. I just wanted to have a more deliberate, focused approach that would have a more consistent appeal to people other than myself. I also started experimenting more with pitching songs to Spotify, doing some other promotion (ads, etc.). I'm still trying to get my footing with that. So, Jarvis Hart was born as my more serious, singer-songwriter persona, and then I kept The Cobra's Gyrations as my more fun, lighthearted retro/nostalgia pop punk band. I'm currently in the process of reworking my catalog to fit into one of those two personas. And I'm still writing more new songs as inspiration comes, but trying to do so with those existing "voices" in mind. So, today is a pretty big day for me, as my first Jarvis Hart album is being released on Spotify. A few of these tracks have already been released as singles, which I've posted here. "Passenger Seat" has been the most successful thus far, in terms of streams/engagement, and it was even picked up by Spotify for Discover Weekly algorithmic playlisting. But there's some new stuff, too, including this track, which is a pretty straightforward homage to my mom. I don't think there is anything more rock 'n roll than that.

I've been posting a lot of songs/videos, and many of them have personal meaning to me. However, this might be my favorite song I've written thus far. There are a lot of different feelings/emotions built into this one, but rather than provide any literal meaning/background, I'll just let the song speak for itself.

This song is a tribute to one of my childhood heroes, Ryne Sandberg, who passed away last week. A big part of my childhood was watching baseball games with my dad. Less specifically, it's about the idea of watching your heroes get older, and getting older yourself, and how quickly time passes.

This song will be on the debut Jarvis Hart album, which is releasing this coming Friday - August 15th. The album is a collection of love songs, and it's a mixture of both new material and some old material I reworked. This track is one of the first songs I wrote on Suno, and it was for my wife to celebrate our anniversary. For the video, I wanted to explore how love evolves as you get older, and how a relationship can grow in different ways. I also wanted to contrast the romantic ideal of love with how love manifests itself in reality.

This song is a little different from most of the songs I've posted for Jarvis. It has a darker vibe, but it's still a "love song" at heart. The song and video are both somewhat of a slow burn, but I thought the story of the video matched the intensity and message of the song.

I have been meaning to post this one for a couple of weeks. It's an existential folk/pop song. I did a lyric video.

I wrote this song awhile ago, but I redid it for Jarvis Hart.

I released this track a couple of weeks ago, but I've been so busy with other projects that I didn't have a chance to make a video for it. It's a silly little love song.

This one is a conflicted love song about Savannah, Georgia, which is a beautiful and historic city in the Southeast United States. I wrote it about Savannah specifically, but the main themes are also true of a lot of places in the American South, where beautification and preservation efforts tend to conveniently gloss over the more sordid parts of history. In a more general sense, it's about recognizing the past, and sometimes being haunted by it. The video takes a more general, personal approach to being haunted by the past, but the imagery helps tell the story in a different way.