Jay Munly

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Jay Munly (also credited as Munly and Munly Munly) is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He has played a role in the development of the “Denver Sound”, music that mixes elements of country, Gothic, and gospel. He is a member of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club and Denver Broncos UK as well as the leader of his own band, Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots. Prior to working with the Harlots, Munly released several solo albums recording with a vast array of musicians. Some of these performers included members of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, DeVotchKa, and future members of Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots. In July 2006, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots was voted the best band in Colorado by over 100 music experts in the Denver Post Underground Music Poll.[1]

Munly is also a published author who has received the Southern Heritage Award and the Young North American Playwright Award for his work

Munly’s music has ties to alt-country and gothic americana. Common themes include religion, violence and dysfunctional relationships; often they are intertwined. His increasingly narrative songs often feature banjo and, since the recording of Jimmy Carter Syndrome, strings.

Munly and the Harlots are currently working on two new records, neither of which has a release date.

Discography

* Blurry (1996 What Are Records?; 2006 Smooch Records (reissue))
* Munly de Dar He (1997 What Are Records?; 2006 Smooch Records (reissue))
* Galvanized Yankee (1999 What Are Records?; 2006 Smooch Records (reissue))
* Jimmy Carter Syndrome (2002 Smooch Records)
* Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots (2004 Alternative Tentacles/Smooch Records)

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alt-country, gothic americana, singer-songwriter, southern gothic, country
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1	My Darling Sambo full track	68
2	Circle Round My Bedside full track	63
2	Dar He Drone full track	63
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5	Spill the Wine full track	52
6	The Denver Boot full track	49
7	Amen Corner full track	47
8	Haggie Hennies Almost Dirty Dress full track	46
9	Censer From the Footlights full track	44
10	chant down cap'n full track	40
11	Big Black Bull Comes Like a Caesar full track	37
12	My Second Salvation Army Choir full track	34
13	The Fabulous History of the Churchill Falls Barrel Races full track	30
13	Cattle, I Will Hang full track	30
15	Goose Walking Over My Grave full track	29

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gosio wrote:
16 days ago

anyone knows who sings 'Censer From the Footlights' along with munly?

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jeffbell25 wrote:
20 days ago

Love the Lee Lewis Harlots Album, about time to see you in London!

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annadoll2001 wrote:
last month

I read something somewhere about Munly living in a black-gloss painted house filled with medical pickles and dead things. Maybe he would like to buy... no, wait...

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missionair wrote:
last month

> Question is: Where can we get 'em without selling bodyparts? < Oh my, I think I just laughed my kidney out, where do I sell it?

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annadoll2001 wrote:
last month

Question is: Where can we get 'em without selling bodyparts? Oh, and has anyone heard his hotdog commercial? Bound to be a winner if 'Math made easy' is anything to go by...

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missionair wrote:
last month

I heard he has not only one book

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Lord_Krichian wrote:
last month

epic

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annadoll2001 wrote:
last month

'Ten songs with no music'. I haven't ever seen it anywhere other than the Ebay auction I bid on and didn't win. It goes for silly money.

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eternalcowboy2 wrote:
last month

i did not know he had a book

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annadoll2001 wrote:
last month

At one point, you could get 'Blurry' on re-release. I agree, it's not my fave by far either, but then each of the albums is different. Me, I want his book. Now that is impossible to get. As for his looks, at least he is distinctive...

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eternalcowboy2 wrote:
last month

blurry kinda stinks and is boring

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eternalcowboy2 wrote:
last month

prob the grossest lookin dude alive, would not want to touch his freaky dead hands

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missionair wrote:
last month

I also have "Galvanized Yankee" and "De Dar He" CD-Rips @ 320. wondering if I ever will be able to get "Blurry" in the same quality though

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pobodys_nerfect wrote:
October 2009

This man pretty much is the heart and soul of gothic country. Good luck trying to find anything other than Jimmy Carter Syndrome, Munly &t the Lee Lewis Harlots.

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fundevogel wrote:
October 2009

I don't think it's been released yet but does anyone know the name of the song with the chorus "dance you cunts"? I saw it performed a couple years back and I've been hoping it shows up on disc.

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Psamanthe wrote:
September 2009

Jay looks like he's been dead for years but I like what he does.

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sofar_nofurther wrote:
September 2009

spill the wine.

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jezebeljones wrote:
September 2009

Jay Munly's music is tremendous...gives me the shivers.

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e8ghtmileshigh wrote:
August 2009

DEE with a meth addiction. awesome.

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schizzm wrote:
August 2009

Jimmy Carter Syndrome - masterpiece!

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