Dissatisfied with the slow and sad music he had previously made, he adopted the new performing name of Father John Misty. Father John Misty performing name and Fear Fun (2012–2014) Īfter leaving Fleet Foxes, Tillman moved to Los Angeles and signed to new label Sub Pop. After extensive touring with Fleet Foxes, promoting their album Helplessness Blues, Tillman played his final show with the band in Tokyo on January 20, 2012. In 2008, Tillman joined Seattle folk rock band Fleet Foxes as their drummer. The following year Tillman released Singing Ax. His brother Zach subsequently moved there as well and is now in the musical group Pearly Gate Music. Tillman said he wrote the title track of Vacilando Territory Blues to describe imagery he associates with his move to Seattle. Īfter signing to independent record label Western Vinyl, Tillman released two albums in 2009, Vacilando Territory Blues and Year in the Kingdom. In 2007, Yer Bird Records released his more elaborately arranged fourth album, Cancer and Delirium. In 2006, the independent label Fargo Records released Tillman's first properly distributed solo album, Minor Works, and reissued I Will Return and Long May You Run as a two-disc set the same year. Tillman and Jurado both later signed on for a U.S. Both albums were later released on Keep Recordings. During the tour, he also struck up a friendship with Eric Fisher, who produced another CD-R album, Long May You Run. At shows Tillman would distribute CD-R copies of songs that would later become his album I Will Return. A year later Tillman started opening for Jurado. A demo he made eventually found its way to Seattle singer and songwriter Damien Jurado.
He found a job there working at a bakery, which allowed him to record at night before his 4:30 am shift began. Career Early career and Fleet Foxes (2004–2012) Īfter attending Nyack College in New York from 1999-2002, Tillman moved to Seattle when he was 21. For this reason, his early purchases included albums like Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming as he was able to convince his parents that Dylan was classified as a "Christian artist". Around the age of 17, his parents modified their cultural stipulations he was allowed to listen to secular music that had a "spiritual theme". He said he was naïve when he was growing up because there was limited secular cultural influence within the home and no secular music was allowed. He attended a Baptist church and an Episcopal elementary school while growing up, then a Pentecostal Messianic day school. Īfter learning drums at a young age, Tillman learned guitar when he was 12. He was estranged from his parents for many years, but they have since reconciled. He has commented that his parents strongly emphasized Christianity in his upbringing, to a degree which he has described as "culturally oppressive". Before he settled on a career as a musician, he briefly had ambitions of becoming a pastor because of the performance aspect when he was approximately six years old. The eldest of four children, he has a brother and two sisters. His mother was raised in Ethiopia, where her parents were missionaries. Tillman, an engineer at Hewlett-Packard, who met at a Christian youth group. Joshua Michael Tillman was born in Rockville, Maryland, on May 3, 1981, the son of evangelical Christian parents Barbara and Irvin C.
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