Jalan Crossland

Jalan Crossland

Gallery: Jalan Crossland Rocks the Stage at Beartrap Summer Festival 2011 [PHOTOS]

Johnny Cash. Elvis Costello. Eric Clapton. Dustin Kensrue. These are the men that define a certain style of music. But, it's more than just a style of music. It's an attitude, a lifestyle. It's folk music, but it's so much more. It's blues, rock, pop, classical, and more all rolled into one. It's a public diary of a broken soul, and if there is one man that gets what folk music is, it's Jalan Crossland. Read More...

Jalan Crossland Talks to Tee Roy in the ‘Green Room’ [VIDEO]

Tee Roy caught up with Beartrap's consummate return artist Jalan Crossland. The Ten Sleep native opens up about his latest album and the possibility of a hiatus from music in his future. Read More...

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Jalan Crossland: Spinning Those ‘Strange, New Old-Timey Tales’

Despite the stagemanship and repertoire that has earned singer/songwriter Jalan Crossland the upbeat sobriquet “The Trailer-Park Troubadour,” he's much more than just a pretty face.

Though (because?) he lives in a town whose population is 307, he has an almost uncanny grasp of the machinations of heartbreak and human nature, as expressed in lyrics such as “Checkout time / And the Sunday morning sunshine / Is a jury trial...”

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Jalan Crossland Returns To Beartrap (Video)

"There ain't much to see in a small town, but what you hear sure makes up for it" is the old adage.  In Ten Sleep WY population 307, what you'll hear - more often than not - is a clanky old banjo ricocheting off the storefronts and buttes, like a renegade Read More...