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Jarad Miles
12+ albums
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Jarad Miles was found in a boat along the Big Sioux River by farmer and huntsman, Mr. Miles, in Moody County, South Dakota on September 25, 1983. The infant was found in the boat's center well wrapped in a large and colorful woven quilt. He was taken to the hospital where he spent two weeks with life-threatening pneumonia and croup (a loud cough resembling the barking of a seal). During this time the newlywed, Mr. and Mrs. Miles, decided to adopt the boy and name him after fictitious cowboy character Jarrod Barkley from the 1960s western television show, "The Big Valley". Jarad left the hospital with a new family and scars on his heels. Despite such turbulent beginnings, Jarad was a calm boy. They took special care of him, singing Beach Boys and John Denver songs while looking out the window. Most days they worked long hours on the farm, but had some fun swinging in the barn on the hay-mount rope and eating peanut butter clay. Eventually, they built Jarad a large den (from parts of an old grain bin) where he could keep all the snakes he was catching. Jarad left the farm in 2002 and traveled for five years, living for brief times in such places as the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, The Twin Cities of Minnesota, and overseas into India before settling in Portland, Oregon in late 2008. In January of 2011, Miles co-released the debut albums: One Million Years [EP] in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist, Neil Goldstein, and full-length, ROCKETSHIP, with engineer Jake Kelly
