Aaron Zimmer

My name is Aaron Zimmer. I am a songwriter and performer currently living in New York City. I arrived here in January of 2003 from Lincoln Nebraska where I was born and raised.

My story starts around 1999 in Nebraska. I had enrolled in college not far from Lincoln the year before, was failing almost all my classes, had just been dumped by my high-school sweetheart and was sort of spinning off the planet. So, I quit school, moved back to Lincoln and recorded my very first record in the bedroom of my North Lincoln apartment. It sounded terrible, but I pressed it anyway and put a band together.

We were called The Aaron Zimmer Band (clever, eh?) and played in Lincoln and Omaha bars with the occasional out-of-town weekend run. Mostly we played to empty houses. One of those shows was at a downtown Lincoln joint called WC’s. A couple of jocks from a popular morning radio show happened to be at the bar while we were playing and took a shining to a tune I had called, “Angel”. They put that song on the radio and had us on their morning show for interviews and acoustic performances. We went from playing to empty houses to filling every club we went to.

Soon after, we were picked up by a booking agency in Denver. They booked a tour for us, and we bought a big, old tour bus and set out to take the country by storm one bar at a time. We had grand dreams about the life of a touring band. There would be money and chicks and rock & roll…we had it all wrong. Eventually the tour unraveled and we drove that bus back home to Nebraska with broken spirits and a broken bank account.

My band-mates and I all parted ways (it wasn’t until years later that we all became friends again) and I got a job as a bartender back in Lincoln. Around then is when I started thinking about recording new stuff and maybe making a move to one of the coasts. So, I worked every shift I could get at the bar, recorded an EP (“Inside My Skin" EP 2004) at Presto! Studios with AJ Mogis. And, when the record was done and I had saved enough money, I packed my stuff and moved to New York City, where I’ve been ever since.

In late 2006, I put out a single called “Therapy”. It was the first tune I recorded with producer Christian Cassan, and feedback from both industry and music fans has been overwhelmingly positive. “Therapy” will be part of my new yet-to-be-titled full-length record, out sometime in 2007.

And, that’s about it. Please take a listen to my music. I hope you’ll like it. If you do, please consider buying it. Support from people like you is what allows me to continue to write, record and perform.