Jesse Lenat is a singer/songwriter and actor living in Brooklyn, New York. Jesse has played roots and rock driven music with his brother David since they were young, growing up on a cactus farm in Pennsylvania. Jesse’s songwriting has shifted from rock such as AC/DC to more of a folk style like Woody Guthrie.
Proud to be a son of a cactus farmer graces the inside of Farm-Aid veteran Jesse Lenat’s fourth self released album “Cactus Farmer.” It is a storytelling album that is completely real throughout from the lyrics to the selected arrangement and instruments. Not so often do you find an artist speaking in a song, but Jesse has done so since music holds no rules or limits. The album has 13 songs all titled with a hint of nostalgia woven between them. The album was crowd funded on Kickstarter and recorded everywhere from home recording studios to dinner tables to studios in New York. The project passed its original goal of $3,00 by $2,000.
Jesse’s risks of the crowd funded album in his own words was, “…I could be hit by a bus or be thrown onto the subway tracks, earth could be hit by a meteor, some sort of electromagnetic confluence could come and wipe all hard drives and computers clean and since we didn’t record on tape, everything would be lost! But I have a pretty strong feeling that I will be able to keep going long enough to make this modest album of 13 autobiographical songs get completed! And if one of these things does happen, I will do my best to become a superhero and fight the aliens to give me access to my hard drives!” I thought that was really funny.
