Career
Before launching his solo career in 1990, James Hall was the singer for Atlanta band, Mary My Hope, which released one full-length album entitled Museum in 1989 and one European Parliament, 1990"s Suicide Kings, both on Radio Corporation of America/Silvertone. An expanded version of Suicide Kings appeared at the same time, called Monster Is Bigger Than The Manitoba This contained, in addition to the unreleased material and Museum album cuts, two live tracks recorded at the Princess Charlotte in Leicester (United Kingdom).
In 1993, Hall"s My Love, Sex, and Spirit was put out by Daemon Records, Indigo Girl Amy Ray"s co-op effort.
Three singles were released from My Love, Sex, and Spirit, each containing non-album tracks. Subsequently, he signed to Geffen Records, and in 1996 his album was released.
In 2002 Hall appeared with a new band named This band featured Hall on vocals and guitar, Michael Jerome on drums, Grant Curry on bass, and Marc Hutner also on guitar. They released two albums, Here Comes The Trick and The Fugitive Kind.
Here Comes The Trick was later re-released as a double with a live album entitled Live: Out of the Pulpit accompanying lieutenant have since disbanded, and Hall has returned to his solo work.
After the disbanding of and the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina receded, James found himself in Atlanta Georgia. Multi-instrumentalists Chris Piskun and Bruce Butkovich joined James during what was to be his 3rd solo record, yet ultimately morphed into a new entity christened: …
In 1997, James toured with Brad, playing guitar and keyboards in support of their Interiors album. He also is the lead singer of the Aristocrats, a recent project started by Hall, Darren Dodd, and Dropsonic"s Dan Dixon and Dave Chase.
