Jim Malone Music

Jim Malone’s music is available on all streaming platforms.

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My Latest Release

In 2007, I released an album called Malone Alone RED. I had a lot of songs stockpiled and didn’t have a band so I intended to release a series of self produced albums under the Malone Alone heading, each named after a color on the prism spectrum, with me playing all the instruments. I got as far as 2008’s, ORANGE. After that, my furniture business took off and took over and it wasn’t until 2024 that I finally got back to the Malone Alone project.

Having built my dream studio (Little Big North in Catskill, NY) during the pandemic, I recorded Malone Alone Yellow throughout 2024, in between hosting and producing other artists at Little Big North.

As with the other releases in the series, I played all the instruments, not because I don’t like playing with other musicians—that happens to be among my all-time favorite things to do—it’s because I need to take the time to experiment and explore the songs—follow them in directions that sometimes lead to dead ends, and yet, the path needed to be followed because how else would I know the right way to go, or find the happy accident?

Hopefully the Malone Alone series is about self expression, not self indulgence, but who knows? Whatever it is, I hope you enjoy the songs and the stories they tell.

BIO

Singer songwriter, Jim Malone has traveled many roads. As a band leader and solo artist he’s shared the stage with Little Feat, Tori Amos, Edie Brickell, Phish, Widespread Panic, NRBQ, Nils Lofgren and more. Through 8 albums, starting in the 90’s, Malone was at the forefront of the jam band craze (Left Exit) and the alt-country movement with (Standpipe).

Despite successful career detours in animation (He was the voice director for the original Pokemon TV series and produced four popular Saturday morning cartoons.) and woodworking/furniture design (founder of the sustainable furniture brand, CounterEvolution whose tables can be found in Shake Shacks nation-wide.), Malone has been a lifelong singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and audio engineer.

His prolific career started at age 8, studying piano under Felix Molzer, a former director of the Vienna Boys Choir, whose austerity might have turned Jim away from music had he not discovered The Beatles and taught himself guitar. By age 14, he had formed his first band, HOT ICE, which rocked the 8th grade dance at Holy Cross Elementary School on the Jersey Shore, where he grew up.

After college at the University of Richmond in Virginia, Malone spent another 4 years touring the South with Left Exit, sharing the stage with Little Feat, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, and Widespread Panic, among others.

After Left Exit, Malone returned to the Jersey Shore and released a solo CD, Stronger Than Silence, on Safety Net Records, before making his way to New York’s Lower East Side where he built a recording studio and formed the alt-country band, Standpipe.

In the late 90’s, Malone turned his attention to animation—specifically, anime, first as a voice director, then as a producer. But, songwriting still managed to play a role in Jim’s creative output as he wrote over 20 theme and featured songs for several Saturday morning cartoons.

In 2006, Jim left the cartoon world for woodworking, which started with the building of a log cabin in Catskill, NY, and grew into CounterEvolution, Jim’s sustainable furniture company, which made tables for over 200 Shake Shacks worldwide, all out of reclaimed bowling lanes. But music making remained a constant, despite all his other pursuits.

In 2007, Malone began releasing the Malone Alone albums, following the colors of the spectrum, starting with Red, which was followed by Orange in 2009. But, the series stalled as the demands of running CounterEv increased. Then, as a result of the pandemic, in 2023 Malone closed CounterEv and opened a new recording studio retreat in Upstate New York called Little Big North. His return to music production means the Malone Alone series will pick up where it left off, and indeed, MA-Yellow and Green are both due for release in 2024, 25 respectively.

Producing Left Exit's "Do It Anyway" at Shorefire Recording studio with engineer, Michael Hammel (SF)

Malone Alone Orange album release party at Under Acme w/Rebecca Weiner, Mat DeVeau and Mike Davis. (SF)

With Danny Lentz at the CounterEv showroom (DF)

At the CounterEv showroom with Mary Connolly, Rebecca Weiner and Paul McKenzie (DF)