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14 tracks | 65 minutes
Released Sep 2006
on Yerge Insult Music Co.
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:37 Money Talks lyrics BUY MP3 04:37 Money Talks lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:37 Money Talks
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:48 Don't Know How to Get You lyrics BUY MP3 01:48 Don't Know How to Get You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:48 Don't Know How to Get You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:36 Too High to Cry lyrics BUY MP3 07:36 Too High to Cry lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:36 Too High to Cry
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:13 Spirit in the Sky lyrics BUY MP3 05:13 Spirit in the Sky lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:13 Spirit in the Sky
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Original, eclectic amalgam of styles from rock, pop & blues to jazz, psychedelic rock, funk and soul.
Bio / Background
Guitarist/songwriter Charlie Jones has been a mainstay of the tri-state club scene since the 1970's, and has appeared with many top jazz and R&B acts, including: Bettye Lavette, Big John Patton, Illinois Jaquette, Jimmy McGriff, Bernard Purdie, Jesse Morrison, Larry Young, and Lonnie Youngblood.
Charlie Jones has just released his first official full length CD, Charlie Jones, on his own Verge Insult Music label. The CD features an eclectic mix of styles from rock, pop & blues, to funk, jazz, psychedelic rock, rhythm & blues and soul.
The CD contains 13 original Charlie Jones’ compositions and a cover of “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum.
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The CD features Charlie Jones on 6 & 12 string electric & acoustic guitars, piano, Hammond organ, tamboura & vocals; Marco Giovino on drums; Melvin Davis on Hammond organ; Phil Butler on bass; Ed Thompson on electric & acoustic guitars ; Ed Alstrom on Hammond organ; Mark Brink on percussion; Bob Petch on bass; Freddie Hendrix & Andy Davetelis on trumpets; and Jeff Levine on saxophone, with backing vocals by Jacqui Yorke, Kevin Ferd, Melvin Davis, Ed Thompson and Charlie Jones.
"The brand new self-titled debut recording by Charlie Jones offers something for every music fans’ tastes. This CD has no genre boundaries, is executed to perfection, and many of the tracks will either grab you by your heart, or rock you into orbit! This is one very impressive solid effort."
- Bob Putignano,Sounds of Blue, WFDU Radio -
Charlie Jones - self titled
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Artist: Charlie Feravola
Title: Charlie Jones
Writer: Rick Galusha,KIWR, Pacific Street Blues
Rating: 10
They say that if you listen long enough to an album you’ll begin to like it. That may be true but I have yet to comprehend the artistry of Don Cherry. That said, I must have listened to the Charlie Jones record a dozen times before it made any sense to me. It’s not that it’s not a good album, a really good album; it’s just schizophrenic. Half of the tracks haven’t a shred of blues in them. And when you’re expecting a “blues” album – well it’s confusing to say the least.
The 12th track, Half My Age, is a blues track begins with Pete Townshend’s guitar riff from, ‘Shaking All Over’ off their Live at Leeds album and then goes straight into a heavy blues jam that resolves into your standard table rocking blues song. The thirteenth track, ‘Ass Blackout / She’s Too Hip’ is a Texas shuffle feel and blistering guitar solo. On the song, ‘Too High to Cry’ Charlie Jones takes an enjoyable go at a B. B. King guitar and organ simmering blues number.
I would venture that 98% of the Contemporary blues audience come to the genre by way of the Rolling Stones or the Allman Brothers and the other two percent are chronic liars. That said, assuming you are still with me, Charlie Jones’ album is a golf ball off-the-fairway and lying in the rough. With every listen spin my enjoyment grows. Jones is using a very diverse basis of references to come up with something rare – a good rock record. For example the closing track on the album, ‘Jessica Emmers’ begins with a descending Nick Lowe like bass line and then moves into a Cheap Trick meets The Dancing Hoods pop sensibility. The lyrical 12 string guitar solo ala George Harrison, driving drums, crisp and clean sound are very Beatlesque. The second track, ‘Don’t Know How to Get to You’ has a strong ‘80’s ‘Beserkley Records / British wave ala a poppier Flamin’ Groovies or Rubinoos.
The band covers Norman Greenbaum’s, ‘Spirit in the Sky’ (recently covered by the Blind Boys of Alabama on their album, ‘Atom Bomb.’) With that catchy melody line in tact the band slows the song down until it hurts and then throws in a mean, nasty, psychedelic Hendrix like guitar solo. By the time the trumpet solo comes in at the end of the song the beat is at a heavy Z. Z. Hill’s ‘Downhome Blues’ pace that drives the song into your brain. God it hurts so good!
On the song ‘Charlie Jones is Dead’ the band sound very Mind Games era John Lennon as he sings some of the coolest lyrics I’ve heard in decades, “You know the one about Jesus Christ, He didn’t mind dying if the cause was right. He stepped right out of his shallow grave and he left behind a shroud with his laughing face. That’s good for him. But it ain’t no good for me. Cause if you kill me honey, dead is all I’ll ever be. Elvis was the King of Rock n’ Roll before he blew his top down in Tupelo. He died in the bathroom from prescription dope. But I saw him pumping gas down in Roanoke. That’s good for him. But it ain’t no good for me, Cause if you kill me honey, Dead is all I’ll ever be.” The song then breaks into a series of rapid fire single note fuzzed-up guitar solo that aches and soars amid a heavy curtain of rhythm and sound.
‘Sigh’ is Pink Floyd meets “Strawberry Fields Forever’ in a slow and languid pop setting replete with a heavy psychoactive ‘60’s drug-sound. Fresh and so totally out of place that two brief chaotic piano breaks that resolve into an acoustic strumming guitar and bongo closing are perfect textures to the highly considered structure.
The track ‘Sunday’ is a phenomenal track that sounds to me to be a bit ‘Sgt. Pepper era Paul McCartney, a dash of Robert Fripp’s abutting chordal dissonance with some Andy Sommers (The Police) thrown in. See? Schizophrenic and magnificent all at the same time.
This album is a highly niched exceptionally good rock-with-blues album. Because it defies a comfortable genre definition it’s not for everyone. It is well worth the time invested if you ears and your mind are WIDE open. No question this is one of the most interesting rock albums I have ever heard!
"Charlies Jones' eclecticism doesn't work against him but rather draws rather heavily in his favor. He is a superb master of guitar and although might come off to some as a stylistic chameleon, his diverse interests and abilities never seem less than coming straight from the heart. Whether he is regaling you with his blues, rock or jazz tinged musicality, there is always a joie de vivre and energy at play music that is enthusiastically infectious.
His debut cd is a sleeper keeper, full of kick ass originals that sound like instant classics and a cover of Norman Greenbaum's Spirit In The Sky that is not only faithful yet imbued with a sensibility that is 21st century modern."
John Hammel, Homegrown radio
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