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J Shogren

thinkin caps on please

About Me

Greetings
Traditional music
another day for the old ways
A great review from JDB on cdbaby
This cd makes me feel like a grifter in a movie who’s been getting kicked around a while, but has stumbled on something that will change his life. The perfect con, the perfect-imperfect woman, news of a rigged horse race. It leads you to feel that feeling good about life is a guilty pleasure. That salvation isn’t always far from a barstool.
I wish people heard J’s songs when they saw me walking down the street. It’d bee a hell of a soundtrack, the right soundtrack.
Publicity, Europe - Peter Holmstedt, Hemifran
www.hemifran.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/25/2006
Band Website: jshogren.com
Band Members:

Influences: Influences - acoustic jimmy page, electric bob dylan
what sets us apart - According to Lars Erikson....what sets us apart is a "very honest and driving, in rhythm and attitude, essentially positive. It cheers you up without being silly. I find it cool, at times brilliant, fun and funny, a combination of serious and amusing. The guitarplaying is great, with lots of variation and personal touch, and so is the working on the songs. It is a good mixture between driving rhythm and more calm songs.
As with many other artists, you find the same kind of rhythm in the different songs returning, but there is nothing wrong with that, it's only familiar and nice. Makes you wanna dance. The songs are mature, because the man who composed them is mature; he's not a kid who, no matter how brilliant he may be, can't get away from his immaturity. The album is cozy, perfect for a car trip or for being played over and over again, weekend after weekend, on a local pub somewhere in Wyoming.
Many lines get stuck in your head (and so do the riffs). He comes some: "Dancing drinking and crying, lonesome lovesick and blue… smoking laughing and lying, to myself, the world and to you… found the keys to life my friend but I dropped them underneath my bar stool", "oh Lord, why did you give so many so few?", "if it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me".
At times I think the songs deserve a better recording, but they still come along great. Sometimes the whole thing reminds me – I don't know why - of a great street band, unknown, unrecorded, but oh so great. There is something classical about this album."

Sounds Like: traditional

Record Label: JAHA!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

lecturing the King and his court

Yesterday we met the King at the royal palace Never was a fan of royalty before, but put it this way:  we were the first to arrive and the last to leave!! it was a tad surreal...in his private li...
Posted by J Shogren on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:42:00 PST

favorite cd in 2008 (so far)

Chuck Prophet - Dreaming Waylon’s Dreamsi like chuck prophet, i love waylon jennings.  so Chuck and friends decision to cover  the entire Waylon Jennings classic outlaw country Dreamin...
Posted by J Shogren on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST

Robert Gordon and his watch

so last night i went to a club in Umea to see an all time favorite rockabilly boogie dude that i have waited...well, 30 years to see.  robert gordon..fresh fish special, rockabilly boogie, fire, ...
Posted by J Shogren on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:41:00 PST

Jahamericana & Air Show Mastering

HowdyAfter a few months of listening to Jahamericana, we decided to have all the songs remastered at Air Show Mastering by Jim Wilson (he did Richard Thompson's last two cds).   [mastering i...
Posted by J Shogren on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:11:00 PST

Webbusking: Radiohead’s Tip Jar Experiment

okay, it has now been awhile since Radiohead posted its music on the web and told us all we could download it and pay whatever we want to...and...62% downloaded the music free during a four-week perio...
Posted by J Shogren on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:57:00 PST

day jobs

howdyso here is my swedish tv debute.....talking about my day job and music toohttp://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=73925&a=1002722 &lid=is_search527895&lpos=0&queryArt527895=shogr en&a...
Posted by J Shogren on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:42:00 PST

today’s mail

In today's mail came an interesting letter.  I think I will accept!  Beer's on me.Dear Prof Shogren,On behalf of The Majesty, The King, I would like to invite You, theeleventh holder of the ...
Posted by J Shogren on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:08:00 PST

Nobel Prize in Economics 2007

Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for their work that ''laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.''What in the ...
Posted by J Shogren on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:20:00 PST

Nobel Prize in Peace 2007

Greetings everyoneThe Norwegians!  they did it again:  Climate change peace prize for Al Gore and the IPCC.   for all the BS that floats around the idea of climate change, Gore and...
Posted by J Shogren on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:48:00 PST

Jahamericana has landed

JAHAMERICANA IS HERE.   $10 IT IS YOURSCONTACT ME AND I WILL SHIP IT OFF TO YOUWHOOO HOOOO
Posted by J Shogren on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:51:00 PST