Dan Jewett (born October 10, 1967) is a musician, journalist and music producer. He was born in Orange, California, USA and has lived in New Mexico, Colorado, San Francisco, and, most recently, Oakland. He attended San Francisco State University and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Dan was a founding member, guitarist and song-writer for the Bay Area rock band, The Himalayans. The Himalayans featured singer, song-writer Adam Duritz before the formation of the Counting Crows. Dan co-wrote the song "Round Here," the Himalayans gem borrowed by the Counting Crows to become the second hit off their 1993 release August and Everything After. The album She Likes the Weather was produced by Dan from a December 1991 studio recording and their original demo tape, produced by Counting Crows guitarist David Bryson. Songs from the album can be sampled on the Official Himalayans Website. More recently Dan has helped many Bay Area bands sharpen their sound working as a producer out of San Francisco's Found Sound Studio. Dan has played and written songs for numerous bands such as The Batmen and Groove Pigs. In 1995 Dan and popster Allen Clapp, calling themselves The Winthers, wrote the song "Where's Larry?" which appeared on the spinART compilation Lemonlime. Dan has also worked as a reporter and editor for the Independent Newspaper Group and helped to launch Connecting Voices, a magazine dedicated to vocalists. In 1993 he was one of only 15 journalists nationwide to be selected for the From the Hip media project, a book produced by the Commission on National and Community Service.
