Oliver Benjamin Thayer was born in Okalahoma and was soon whisked away by a storm cloud of dust. He spent his youth traveling the globe with his parents, vinyl and book collectors, bouncing from Turkey, to Israel, to Italy as if no boundaries existed and time and space were a vague superstition. Briefly attending college in Vermont, Oliver was writing songs in liue of attending classes. Drawing upon his love of Hip -hop, George Clinton, Bob Dylan, Counry/Western, as well as the strange and mercurial blues music he discovered through archival recordings and the collections of Harry Smith and Alan Lomax -Oliver set out on his musical odyssey. He took to the road, blowing through New York City where he squatted in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn - chasing demons through the projects and catching images for songs. He made it back to Oklahoma to meet Arlo Guthrie, found the road again and rambled around some more, landing in Colorado then Minnesota, where he became a producer and studio engineer. He now dwells in the environmental apocalpyse of modern Taiwan.

Taichung, Taiwan

Oliver Benjamin Thayer

Beck, Bob Dylan, Wu Tang, Woody Guthrie, Ennio Morricone, MF Doom, Grateful Dead, Leadbelly, Townes Van Zandt, Public Enemy, The Clash, DJ Premier, Odetta, Son House, Dave Van Ronk, Kool Keith, Parliament/Funkadelic, Al Green, Dr. Dre, Metallica, Pete Seeger, John Hurt.

Beck, Bob Dylan, Wu Tang,  Parliament/Funkadelic.

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Watching the World Burn

  

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Substance Abuse

  

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Pretty Girl On Roller Skates

  

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Mall of America

  

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A Million Dollars In Her Eyes

  

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Extraordinary Handcuffs

  

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The Money

  

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Lady Liberty

  

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A New Summer

  

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Clubmare

  

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I'll Find You There

  

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