Shawn Persinger is Prester John
Discography

ACOUSTIC DUO: Acoustic Guitar and Mandolin

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All vocal "Pop/Rock/Acoustic" songs.
Prester John
Release Date (physical): Jan. 25th, 2011 on Quixotic Music
Limited Edition: 250 signed and numbered copies.

RISE
All vocal "Pop/Rock/Acoustic" songs.
Prester John
Release Date (physical): Sept. 21st, 2010 on Quixotic Music
Limited Edition: 250 signed and numbered copies, sold out Nov. 2010.
Second Edition: Dec. 2010

DESIRE FOR A STRAIGHT LINE
All instrumental
Prester John
Release Date (physical): May 4th, 2010 on Innova Records
Release Date (digital): July 27th, 2010 on Innova Records

SOLO: Acoustic Guitar and Vocals

THE ART OF MODERN/PRIMITIVE GUITAR
All instrumental
Shawn Persinger is Prester John
Released: May 4th, 2004 on Innova Records
Limited Edition Release: December 2003 on 6 or 7 Records

PEERLESS
Shawn Persinger is Prester John
10 Instrumentals, 5 Vocal songs
Released: September 2001 on E.H.P.

REASONABLE HORSE
Shawn Persinger is Prester John
12 Instrumentals, 4 Vocal songs
Released: February 2000 on E.H.P.

BOUD DEUN: Avant-Rock Group: All Instrumental

THE STOLEN BICYCLE
Boud Deun
Released: September 1998 on Cuneiform

A GENERAL OBSERVATION
Boud Deun
Released: March 1998 on E.H.P./Syzygy

ASTRONOMY MADE EASY
Boud Deun
Released: May 1997 on Cuneiform

FICTION AND SEVERAL DAYS
Boud Deun
Released: August 1995 on E.H.P.

COMPILATIONS

156 STRINGS
Compilation CD of Acoustic Guitar pieces.
Includes one previously unreleased track,
"An Extra Dollar" by Shawn Persinger is Prester John.
Released: May 2002 on Cunieform

HELP US GET HIGH
Compilation CD of "Jam" bands,
featuring one previously unreleased,
live, BOUD DEUN track. By the way Shawn had
NOTHING to do with the title of this record or the cover art.
Released: May 1999 on Shanachie

GUEST APPEARANCES

FRENCH TV: THE CASE AGAINST ART
Released: April 2002 on Pretentious Dinosaur.
Shawn plays on 1 track of this release...at least
the liner notes say he does.

DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY: S/T
Released: April 2000 on Out of Phase.
Shawn plays on 5 tracks of this release
from former BOUD DEUN drummer, Rocky Cancelose,
and UNCLE GUT bassist, Mike Galaway.

OTHER PROJECTS

MAIN STATION
Music for the film, "MAIN STATION" by Laura Horak
Scored for: Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin and Cello
Released (limited): December 2002

For a bit more info on the film: MAIN STATION

DAVENPORT VARIATIONS
Featured Music and Incidental Music for the poems,
"DAVENPORT VARIATIONS" by Keith Winston
Scored for solo guitar and guitar duets
Available: 2004

And if that isn’t enough for you here is a, more or less, complete list of works. These pieces exist in many different forms. Obviously there are the songs that are on the above mentioned CDs but many of these songs have only been recorded in demo version or not at all. Some have been performed live, others exist only on paper. Many of these are broken down into categories that represent an albums worth of material.

SHAWN PERSINGER WORKS

GUITAR INSTRUMENTALS

Modern/Primitive Guitar

1. Blood Jokes
2. Zero Percent
3. 30 Krowns 300 Zlotys
4. Talking Dumb
5. Pony is Delinquent
6. Reasonable Horse
7. Cribbing
8. Sandpaper Polish
9. Leaving Jerusalem
10. Dot…Another Dot
11. Betray Your Country
12. Ford's Offer
13. Bellevue Bed & Breakfast: Theme and Variations
14. The Thanksgiving Visitor
15. Leap Year
16. Halloween or Easter
17. Matthieu’s Accurate Portrait (Grotesque)
18. Sherman Hairpin
19. An Extra Dollar
20. Factotum Pole
21. The Day after Christmas
22. Stupid, Stupid Rain
23. Gray Green Yellow

Modern/Primitive VOL. II

24. Parachute Adams
25. Lars Von Trier
26. The Queen Wants Cake
27. Stuck Around
28. Edison, NJ
29. Mr. Fifteen
30. Blue, Blue, Blue
31. Race to the Red Light
32. Cell Block Love Letters

Non Modern/Primitive Guitar Instrumentals

33. 30 Cent Bike Ride
34. Living in Never
35. Camel Carries Lamb
36. Water for China
37. Pre-History
38. Nearer to Nothing
39. Hideous Kinky
40. Six Holidays in May
41. Forgetting Names and Dates
42. Homesick Again
43. Dumb Waiter
44. Isaac Walton
45. Gall and Decorum

Davenport Variations (minus M/P Guitar Pieces)

46. Two Nights Burning
47. I accessory
48. Black Tobacco Logo
49. II accessory
50. III accessory
51. The End of November
52. IV accessory
53. V accessory

SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND VOCAL SONGS

54. Life in a Box
55. Invitation
56. A Bit about You
57. In Ten Days
58. Peerless
59. Always in the Snow
60. Up
61. It Rains A Lot
62. Visitors Day
63. First Date
64. Domesticated
65. Nobody Knows I’m Famous
66. Subjects

ROCK/POP SONGS with VOCALS

HOMESICK

67. Homesick
68. Not Like You
69. Keeping Patient
70. P-8
71. Famous Names
72. Only A Friend (with Chris Miller)
73. This Is A Question
74. Badfinger Exercise
75. Forget
76. Soulless

POP WITH FLIP: ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK

77. Hat in Hand
78. Blood Relation
79. Try Too Hard
80. Je ne sais pas
81. Three Short Films
82. Outside

GRACE UNWOUND

83. Dear Martha
84. Quick to Judge
85. Hollywood Rewrite
86. Lessons with Mihir
87. Travel Tips
88. Best Intentions
89. Grace Unwound
90. Mother’s Day Rhetoric
91. Prattle
92. Smokestack Sleeps and Skeleton Key
93. Head
94. Arch Rival
95. Fourth out of Five
96. The Last Day of May
97. Steal From Your Friends

SEVEN LETTER GIRL

98. 11AM
99. Franklin and Alice
100. Ordinary
101. Like a Soldier Does
102. Waiting For The 31st
103. Gift Giving
104. Trivial Matters
105. Starter Key

VERY OLD SONGS/FERAL CHILDREN

106. Oceanside
107. Seven Hours (Restless)

“CONCERT” Music

PIANO WORKS

108. Two Curt Minutes with Annette
109. Columbus Discovers Nothing
110. One Hundred Stops Tunnel
111. In Maine
112. January 8th, 2002
113. Prelude No. 1: Sweet and Still Working
114. Prelude No. 2: Times Two
115. Prelude No. 3: Rain in Fall
116. Prelude No. 4: Edison, New Jersey
117. Prelude No. 5: Pearl and Opal
118. No. 1 from Twelve Easy but Odd Pieces
119. The Day After Easter
120. Piano Sonata No. 1: Parting Ways/Bee Holder
121. Piano Sonata No. 2: Book of Statements

DUETS

122. Piano and Violin Duet No. 1
123. Piano and Violin Duet No. 2

STRING QUARTETS & QUINTETS

124. Harmless
125. 1921 Sunday Race
126. Birds
127. Raniliegh Gardens
128. String Quartet No. 6

CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

129. Music for Prague: Clarinet or Flute, Piano and Violin
130. Main Station: Clarinet, Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano

AVANT-ROCK, ROCK, & JAZZ

THE LOST DOG

131. Motor Go Slow
132. The Lost Dog
133. Mapo's Halo
134. The Minimum You're Entitled To (with Tedd Magsig)
135. Typing Class
136. The Largest Desert
137. Contestant #37
138. Seven
139. Play the One That Starts Like This
140. Saturday's Tribe
141. Ghost of a Minuteman
142. Song for Henry Threadgill to Sing
143. The Favored Colour of Light
144. Another Sad Town
145. Duckling - charted
146. The Half Speed Cakewalk - 2/08/04
147. Backward - charted
148. Propaganda Art - charted
149. Table Turns Black - charted
150. Fiction and Several Days
151. Ivo
152. Exit One
153. Exit Two
154. Ponies
155. Mrs. What’s Her Name - charted
156. Kickable Creatures - charted
157. Fishing - charted
158. No. 1000 Opus 1 - 1/30/04
159. Second Thing in the Morning - 2/13/04
160. Tired of Waiting – 6/22/04
161. Phrenology – 9/4/04

BOUD DEUN works

162. Continued – charted
163. Making Circles (with Brian Heck)
164. Swimming for Help
165. Calvin’s Lost His Head Again
166. Drake #7
167. Boud Deun
168. December 17th
169. Good King Friday
170. Sleeping - charted
171. Copper Ink
172. Conversations with Ellis
173. Coal Boxes and Daisy Cutters
174. Lincoln
175. The Miller’s Tale
176. The Quince Tree
177. Neither (with Matt Eiland)
178. Hespheria and Phelan
179. Hartford’s Coffin – charted
180. Raniliegh Gardens - charted

CHURCHES

181. Belfast - charted
182. Saints - charted
183. Cotton's Sermon
184. No River Deserves a King
185. Ten Pence/Bridges
186. Terrible Accident - charted
187. Orlando/Jacks - charted
188. Burnsville
189. Last of a Thousand Days
190. A Famous Rabbit.
191. Lantern Effect
192. Desperate Albert Sloop
193. Train, Rain, Zero - charted
194. Horseshoe Invasion/A Church in York

THE YOUNG PERSONS GUIDE TO FREE IMPROVISATION
AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC: Any Instrumentation

195. Basic Elements
196. Like Glass
197. Chutes & Ladders
198. High & Low
199. Notes No Rhythm
200. What’s for Dinner?
201. Timed Trills
202. Stop Copying Me
203. Political Statement
204. That Ol’ F# Locrian Thing

HALLOWEEN BABTIZM

205. One
206. Two by two by two
207. Three
208. Four
209. Five Feet Inside
210. Six
211. Seven Story Diatribe
212. Eight
213. Nine
214. Ten Times Anything
215. K though Eleven

IMPROV INTROS AND ENDINGS AND FORMS
2 to 4 measures of notated music to be used as
Intros, Endings and Segues in Improvisations

216. 6345
217. #1 – 2/09/03
218. #2 – 3/22/04
219. Politics of Cool (1, 3, 2, 4)

IN PROGRESS

220. String Quartet No. 2
221. Art Bears
222. Cold Water Jump
223. Cracked Dancer
224. Habits
225. Renaming Braxton County
226. Late July Dylan
227. Somber, Pat Temper
228. Gall and Decorum
229. Meet in… (solo guitar)
230. Philosophy School (no lyrics yet) (in Cakewalk and Finale)
231. 25th
232. Mr. Fifteen (solo guitar)
233. Halloween Babtizm
234. Music for 24 broken music boxes
235. Every Other Day (pop/rock song)
236. Iron Novel Works
237. Almost February (pop/rock song)
238. Divorce Song (excellent first section, now two parts)
239. Guide to Life

TO BE CONTINUED...