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ezFolk Forums > ezFolk Audio Hosting > Featured Artist of the Week > Featured Artist - 01/08/07 - Jono Manson |
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 (Above) Jono plays on center stage at the Pistoia Blues Festival in Italy in 2005. (Below) Jono playing with Carole King in 1989.  Jono Manson From "No Depression" magazine: A native New Yorker who now divides his time between Tesuque, New Mexico,and Italy, Jono Manson has long been a master of the high art of low-rent song craft. But never has he cut as close to the bone as on “Under The Stone”, the title track from his latest self-produced CD. As high and lonesome as anything off the O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack, it kicks off with a pitch-perfect invocation – “World of trouble/ World of worry/ Carry on / carry on” – and proceeds to home in on death with unblinking eyes. Recounting a hardscrabble life in which “a hundred prayers/ A thousand needles/ Won’t stop the pain,” Manson returns repeatedly to a mantra that makes the ultimate case for cremation: “The spirit won’t visit the bones/ Under the stone.” The song is even more potent in the stripped-down acoustic version included as a bonus track. Though “Under The Stone” is the album’s crown jewel, it is studded with other gems as well. “Walking Down Your Street” is a back-porch picker that tucks a hard-luck tale inside a happy go-lucky shuffle. “Gunhill Road” celebrates two late, great bass players: Loup Garou’s Jim Gregory, who co-wrote the ****-kickin’ rocker with Neil Thomas; and Blues Traveler’s Bobby Sheehan, who plays on the track and toured with Manson for many years in High Plains Drifter. Both date back to the old New York bar-band scene, invoked as a raucous last-call anthem in “The Night Before The Morning After”. - Cree McCree "Jono Manson and his band cook up a saucy brew of blues and rock, as shaky vocals, guttering guitar riffs, and solid drumming combine to deliver a sharpened hook." -Billboard "This veteran New York bar band manages to rise above the roots-rock riffraff offering an effective cure for the alternative rock blahs in the process." -Entertainment Weekly "Tough as nails rock n roll and electricity-drenched rhythm and blues, all showcasing distinctive blues-soaked vocals. Its a powerful, energetic and gutsy sound based on the very roots of American popular music." -The Coloradoan "One heck of a healthy concoction of country, blues and roots music. Listening to the music makes it easy to see how so many rockers fell under the spell of Mansons genius." -The Advocate "Jono Manson is a son born of Americana with a voice and sound unattainable anywhere else." -Rockpile Magazine
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gerry mcgandy Approved 
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Among many fine performers on ezfolk, Jono is one of the best. Hope to see him this end of the Atlantic sometime.
____________________ Gerry McGandy http://mp3mart.net http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/556/ |
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James Connolly Approved 
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Nice Stuff Jono  JamC
____________________ James (Seamus) Connolly http://ezfolk.com/audio/jamesconnolly http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/422/popmp3.php http://www.myspace.com/celticseamus |
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holleyhall Approved 
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Nice picking and harmony! Holley
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