The Lonesome Organist is the name used by Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Jeremy J. Jacobsen. The word lonesome is used not in the existential sense, but rather because he's a one-man band. Jacobsen's musical arsenal includes organs, toy piano, regular piano, saws, harmonicas, whistles, melodica, guitars, steel drums, pots, pans, and drums. Most of the instruments were played simultaneously and Jacobsen would generate a rhythmic bed using drum contraptions, tap shoes and electronic gadgetry. The few vocal numbers include shouts, mock-yodels, or enthusiastic expressions of compelling inscrutability.