Jerry Oliver

Jerry Oliver is a singer/songwriter, guitar teacher and poet who originally hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota where he spent several years as a fixture in the Midwest music scene. Jerry made his mark playing with The Cherokee Rose Band and his own original rock band Peculiar Red. In 1996 Jerry formed the label Odd Records to release Peculiar Red's album and has released over a dozen original music projects since then.

After the demise of Peculiar Red in 1998 Jerry began performing and writing with his wife Sheila as the duo Pushin' Daisies, who were featured on the 1999 CD compilation of Minnesota's best songwriters, Minnesota Homegrown which was compiled by the weekly paper Pulse Of The Twin Cities and released by Coldwind Records. For the next few years Jerry built a loyal Midwest following with Pushin' Daisies and as a solo artist.

In the summer of 2003 Jerry sold his house and made a bold move with his family to Nashville, Tennessee where he has been busy in the local music scene and teaching guitar at The Musicians Hall Of Fame And Museum School Of Music and now independently. Jerry last released the critically acclaimed solo album Death Of The Avant-Garde in 2008 and the limited release, little known Spider Poets album in 2010. With it being five years since Jerry last released an official recording he is ripe with two new solo albums of songs featuring just Jerry and his guitar, voice and harmonica. The first album, Believe, comes out August 4, 2015 with The Wood and the Spark slated for a November 3 release. The new singles Lookin', Unpredictable Moments and Top Of The Hill are out now.