James Husband

James Husband
James Huggins performing in Amiens, on May 26th, 2007.
Background information
Origin	Athens, Georgia, United States, , Sweden
Genres	Indie pop, indie rock
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Polyvinyl (US), Self released (worldwide)
Associated acts	Of Montreal, Great Lakes, Elf Power
Website	www.myspace.com/jameshusband
Members	Jamey Huggins

James Husband is the recording project of James Huggins III, Of Montreal's multi-instrumentalist.

James Husband is a recording alias for multi-instrumentalist/songwriter James Huggins III. In the group 'of Montreal', James recorded and toured as a core member from 1998 to 2010. He left the band after nearly 13 years in June 2010, yet is the only live band member to appear on every release up through 2012's "Daughter of Cloud" and the three previous releases since his departure (after recording on 5 albums between the band's debut "Cherry Peel" & 2005's "Sunlandic Twins" lp). James toured and recorded for well over a decade including performances at the Hollywood Bowl, Roseland Ballroom, The Palladium, and many cities in countries around the globe. James performed on national television in 'of Montreal' on both the "Late Show with David Letterman" & "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" as well as an acting role in the Nickelodeon show Yo Gabba Gabba for which he also recorded a separate Christmas song as James Husband. He also performed and recorded a live appearance in Tokyo for NHK with songwriter Robyn Hitchcock while on a Japanese tour with of Montreal. James is a founding member/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter for the band Great Lakes and recorded 3 albums and a few 7inch singles while touring with that group for 5 years. He was also a touring member of fellow Elephant 6 associated bands, Ladybug Transistor, The Essex Green, Marshmallow Coast, & B.P. Helium. James was more recently a touring member of Azure Ray (2010-2011). He is currently (2012–13) recording and performing live with the newest line-up of Elf Power as well as moonlighting with Scott Spillane's new project...E/X/P/. James is working on a 2013 full length album release partially including sessions with producer Mitch Easter culled from the remaining 'Stockholm sessions' from 2008-2011 mixed with brand new material recorded by members of the new live band featuring BP Helium, Dottie Alexander (of montreal/great lakes) and Jojo Glidewell (Modern Skirts).

James has released several albums independently recorded and distributed exclusively on CD format.

His first album, released in 2005, was entitled Now Listen, featured twelve original songs and three covers, The Beatles's "We Can Work It Out" and "What You're Doing", as well as "Indian Fables" by Guided by Voices. Now Listen was available during of Montreal's 2005 tour in support of The Sunlandic Twins.