Jay Sparrow is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Life and career Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Sparrow was lead singer for the Edmonton punk rock band Murder City Sparrows. However, he eventually decided to dissolve the band and pursue a different musical direction after realizing that he had no punk rock on his iPod, but instead listened mainly to songwriters such as Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen. He released his first solo EP, The Running, in 2009, and followed up with two more EPs, Good Days Gone By in 2009 and The Tempest Line in 2010, before releasing his full-length album debut, In Our Time, in the fall of 2010. He was the winning Alberta songwriter in the 2009 edition of CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest, for which he wrote and recorded the song "The Ballad of Mary White". Discography With Murder City Sparrows Studio albums Dead Horse Disco (2009) EPs Murder City Sparrows (2006) Solo Studio albums In Our Time (2010) White (2012) Bluebird (2014) Let Wild Dogs Run (2020) EPs The Running (2009) Good Days Gone By (2010) The Tempest Line (2010) References External links Jay Sparrow on Myspace Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Musicians from Thunder Bay Writers from Thunder Bay Canadian rock singers Canadian male singers Canadian male singer-songwriters Canadian singer-songwriters Musicians from Edmonton Writers from Edmonton