"Western Justice" - First ever live performance of this Jack Rieley song. Jaye Muller, 2003 USA

"Western Justice", song by Jack Rieley. JAYE MULLER (Count Jaye) - LIVE in VERMONT July 5, 2003. The band are Ben Patton (g), Carli Munoz (kb), Debbie & Mark Bond (kb&b) and Don McAulay (dr). With Mark Gardener (RIDE), James Prosek, Joe Dochtermann and Matthew Peck. Jack Rieley, about this performance: "One of the few really respectable people I've met in the music industry, Roel Kruize, first talked with me about doing an album. At first the thought of me singing on a recording scared me, then turned me off, but eventually seemed possible. After all, I thought, Brian Wilson got me to sing the lead on A Day In The Life of A Tree for The Beach Boys' album Surfs Up. Eventually, I wrote both a bunch of songs for the project and a fictional diary about drought hitting the western world. I was to produce the album as well, though fortunately the brilliant producer John Leckie was brought in to engineer the recording. We do many of the tracks at EMI's studios in Holland, then followed with overdubs at Abbey Road in London, where John and I also mixed the album. It must have been a fright for John to put up with my insistence on continually lowering the volume of my vocals, a reflection of my own insecurity about my voice. There was a release of the project and even a bit of press, but Western Justice was no commercial success. Then, a few years ago, Jaye Muller and I decided to put on a free concert for the people of a small southern Vermont town where we had a villa. Fine musical artists such as Mark Gardener, Carli Munoz and Ben Patton were among those who took part. Rehearsals were at the sprawling villa, where somehow Jaye managed to be certain that I would not know of his plans for the concert's final song. He did the first public performance of Western Justice, and did it really well. I was amazed."

Added 1 Jun 2026