Dent May hails from Jackson, Mississippi, born and raised. He grew up singing in church and in school musicals,
graduating to pop punk and emo bands in high school, before setting off East to NYU film school. After three
semesters in New York, May ditched the big city and returned South, enrolling at the University of Mississippi in
Oxford. There May found something like a home. Along with other local musicians, he started the Cats Purring
Collective and began playing shows armed only with his ukulele. After meeting Animal Collective during the recording
of Merriweather Post Pavilion at local studio Sweet Tea, the band signed May to their Paw Tracks label for his 2009
debut album The Good Feeling Music of Dent May and his Magnificent Ukelele, recorded in a double-wide trailer in
the nearby hamlet of Taylor, Mississippi.
May began several self-booked tours of the album, while also booking shows at the legendary Cats Purring Dude
Ranch, a converted Boys and Girls Club where he lived with several other musicians. Oxford was May’s home for
two more albums, the psychedelic wedding band extravaganzas of Do Things (2012) and Warm Blanket (2013), both
on Paw Tracks. In 2015, May sought sunnier skies and made the move to Los Angeles. He founded the studio
Honeymoon Suite with Paul Cherry and Pat Jones, home for sessions from artists as diverse as Toro y Moi, TOPS,
Magdalena Bay, and Ned Doheny.
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