Craig Jameson wants to boost people’s energy.
The multigenre singer-songwriter and guitarist invigorates listeners with his latest instrumental single, “Grasshopper 2.0.”
The bluesy song features upbeat slide guitar, bouncy bass, and marching drums that mimic a grasshopper’s vigor and momentum.
He created that infectious rhythm with producer and bassist Andy Reed and drummer Donny Brown.
“That song is meant to energize,” said Jameson, who’s based in Midland, Michigan. “When you listen to it, it’s meant to pump you up. It’s about this insect that’s racing through the underbrush, and you can picture that because of the bouncy, jumpy rhythm.”
Before doing “Grasshopper 2.0,” Jameson previously recorded and released “Grasshopper” as a slide-guitar single in June 2024.
“It is a remake of the song that I did with Dana Nielsen,” he said. “I did it strictly myself … but I’ve always heard it with a really intense bass and drum part. It’s always been in my head, but I didn’t know anyone I could do that with at the time. It’s [also] good as a standalone piece.”
Once Jameson relocated from Southern California to Midland with wife Chiqeeta in September 2023 for family reasons, he met Reed and started working with him at Reed Recording Company in Bay City.
“I reached out to Andy and said, ‘Go to my newly created website and listen to some of my single guitar pieces. You let me know if I have the right quality to work with you,’” said Jameson, whose music encompasses rock, folk, blues, and Americana. “He came back fully encouraging. I started with a single instrumental with him and then did a song with drums.”
After recording several songs with Reed, Jameson decided to revisit “Grasshopper” with bass and drums, leading to “Grasshopper 2.0.”
“I really think it goes where it’s supposed to,” he said. “It’s kind of a little barn burner.”
I recently spoke with Jameson about his background and catalog of songs.
