Jewboy Cain — Socialist Orthodox Jewish Folksinger from the South

Jewboy Cain could never have been anything other than a socialist orthodox Jewish folksinger from the South. Consequently, he has never fit in anywhere. Hailing from Birmingham Alabama, Detroit Michigan, and all over the South from west to east, he has always made a living with his music, an income situation that has kept him impoverished his entire career.

Jewboy was discovered at the Blue Corn Folk Festival by producer/composer Don Was, who set him up to record his first album, "Jewboy Cain," in 1989. Jewboy made the indy-rock circuit to promote the record, which got enough attention and earned enough money to produce his second album, "Damn Kapital." In 1991 Jewboy opened for Joan Armatrading and Was (not Was) at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, but during Jewboy's set the concert had to be canceled: after a controversial song, Jewboy was shot by a member of the crowd.

He took it as a sign that he was destined for obscurity. Neverthless, in the mid-nineties, he was immortalized by Chicago fringe playwright Jeff Dorchen in the play "The Life and Times of Jewboy Cain." Dorchen has been Jewboy's patron and close friend ever since. Jewboy's most recent album is the eclectic, self-produced and non-commercial "Shlomo Heart," which can only be purchased from him personally, by contacting Jeff Dorchen at jdorchen@hotmail.com.