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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »The October Sky by Jon Black
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fave it Americana | Roots Rock
10 tracks | 37 minutes
Released Feb 2006
on Rebuilt Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 My Days Are Numbered lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 My Days Are Numbered lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 My Days Are Numbered
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:19 Pills To Help Me Sleep lyrics BUY MP3 03:19 Pills To Help Me Sleep lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:19 Pills To Help Me Sleep
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:28 You Can't Spell Blah Without LA lyrics BUY MP3 03:28 You Can't Spell Blah Without LA lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:28 You Can't Spell Blah Without LA
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:47 Glory, Hallelujah lyrics BUY MP3 03:47 Glory, Hallelujah lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:47 Glory, Hallelujah
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:33 The October Sky lyrics BUY MP3 02:33 The October Sky lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:33 The October Sky
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 Dressed in Dark Blue lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 Dressed in Dark Blue lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 Dressed in Dark Blue
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:01 Airwaves and Frequencies lyrics BUY MP3 04:01 Airwaves and Frequencies lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:01 Airwaves and Frequencies
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:46 Wind Me Up lyrics BUY MP3 03:46 Wind Me Up lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:46 Wind Me Up
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:31 The Wastelands lyrics BUY MP3 03:31 The Wastelands lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:31 The Wastelands
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:10 All I Need lyrics BUY MP3 06:10 All I Need lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:10 All I Need
Brash indie/folk/Americana for sinners and saints
Bio / Background
Like countless others have done, Jon Black sat crammed in a generic office cubicle, dreaming of one day escaping the doldrums of modern corporate life. Fresh out of college in his home state of Georgia, part-time performer and songwriter Jon Black moved to Charleston, SC. Entering the workforce as a software company customer service representative, he took a good look around and came to the realization that he would rather starve as an artist than spend thirty years drowning in a sea of cubicles and fax machines.
Quitting his job in corporate America to pursue his career in music, Jon distilled his frustration into music and produced The Rhythm of the Rising Sun, an album concerned with wanting more out of life. “I knew when I walked out the door I was taking a chance, I was writing my own story, regardless of what ended up happening.
↓ more ↓” Jon’s music career began to take shape within a year and a half of handing in his pink slip selling nearly 2,000 copies of his album based purely on live shows and word-of-mouth.
While supporting The Rhythm of the Rising Sun, Black began to garner attention from Athens, GA based non-profit record label Rebuilt Records and President of Rebuilt Records, Jason Harwell. “I had gotten to know Jon a couple of years prior to him quitting his job to pursue music full-time, and he had always impressed me as an individual. Seeing the ways he developed during his first year of full-time music
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