The Chris Bathgate/Hezekiah Jones split 7 inch is coming soon! Final Mixes are all done. Engineered by Jim Roll at his wonderful studio in Ann Arbor, MI. And will be put out by Quite Scientific.
Hezekiah Jones released an EP( Come To Our Pool Party )
Hezekiah Jones' song, Mississippi Sea, is also featured on the compilation Folk Music For The End Of The World with Paleo, Hayden, Chris Bathgate, O'Death, Oweihops, Sarah White, The Hotel Ghost, Matthew Ryan and many many more:
Hezekiah Jones' debut album, Hezekiah says you're A-OK , which has been released on Yer Bird Records. You can get it now at the here .
'Circumstance' and 'Which Side are We On?' were first released on the StillWillis album, 'Ghost Cats With Wings', in 2005. Raph plays keyboards and sings in Philadelphia's live act StillWillis. He doesn't do much else. He is a lazy human being.
Hezekiah Jones has been lucky enough to share a bill with some of his favorite local and national artists. You should go give them a listen. A few of them being The Spinning Leaves (The Glowing Love Child of Michael Baker & Barbara Gettes!!), Cowmuddy (Yeah!, CowFuckingmuddy), Hunter's Cannon , The Lowlands , Nicole Atkins and the Sea , Chris Kasper , Chris Bathgate , The Fractals , Bevin Caufield , The Silent Years , Kilo , Chris 'Griz' Grunwald , Vandaveer , Unlikely Cowboy , Birdie Busch , Frontier Ruckus , O'Death , Slo-Mo , Adrien Reju , Oud Blues , Steph Hayes and the Good Problems ,
Sarah White , Andrew Lipke , Hoots and Hellmouth , Devin Greenwood , Joshua Park , Allison Polans , Kate Gaffney , Ross Bellenoit , Joshua Marcus , and of course the genius of Matt Helm . Hezekiah loves spinach and garlic. Hezekiah has also been lucky enough to have some of the most amazing and talented people join him on stage. such as Chris 'Griz' Grunwald, Andrew Keenan, Michael Baker, Barbara Gettes, Harrison Treegoob, Allison Polans, & Clare Callaghan. A Big big thank you to all of them.
And Here's some nice things written about Raph from an article about StillWillis
"...Then there's Raph Cutrufello, the prototypical intellectual bohemian, a renaissance man if you will. If you have ever heard someone described as "When they made him, they broke the mold." Raph is as unique and inventive as a modern-day Ben Franklin. With his incisive and biting wit, thrift store attire and the last person on earth who still uses a typewriter, he toils in obscurity as one of the world's great-undiscovered writers. Growing up in Havertown and currently residing in the Fishtown-Northern Liberties section of Philly, Raph is the quintessential poet's poet. Soft-spoken, charming, hilarious. Three words that describe Raph. How he writes lyrics is how I imagine Quentin Tarantino writing a screenplay: "I pre-write on the typewriter and it's a hodge-podge of poetry from a bunch of un-related ideas that I somehow pull together." Being a left-hander, he plays a guitar upside-down better than most people play right side up..."
Jimmy Mac, Compendium Music Magazine Vol. 1 Issue 1
Morgan King of Yer Bird Records says in an interview with Aquarium Drunkard "there's a songwriter in Philadelphia, Raphael Cutrufello, who writes these amazing melodies and songs in this Leonard-Cohen-meets-M.-Ward style that is staggering."
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"...The show started with a sound guy tuning up and getting the levels right. And then he was asking some other guy to come on stage and then they started singing a song I knew and all of a sudden, they were Hezekiah Jones. And they were fantastic. The harmonies were so unobtrusive, but so present--so tangible. Their songs are the gifts wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine given to you by someone who really knows you. Highlights were "Circumstance," "Agnes of the World" and "Hildebrand". "Hildebrand" has two speeds: loping and chipper. The change between the two--downbeat to upbeat--makes for such a pleasant moment that no one in the room could hide their joy....." Brad Hoffman, Cafe Eclectica Music
some Hezekiah Says You're A-OK reviews
...It’s full of the kind of songs that scintillate along the glistening strands of forlorn love or something like it. Like Will Oldham, who Cutrufello cites as a major influence, the best songs are a little elusive, offering tiny bubbling epiphanies and a bittersweet afterglow. - Tara Murtha, Play Philly
...brings to mind artists like Sam Beam, Paul Simon, and Will Oldham. These aren't just songs. They are musical settings and emotions. It's not too often an acoustic album can grab your attention on one listen, and this does just that. - Herohill
....La voce profonda di Raphael scivola morbida e suadente sul crescendo della chitarra, e sembra quasi voler prendere per mano il bambino che è in ciascuno di noi, per accompagnarlo nella nera notte stellata, tra il frinire dei grilli e l’erba imperlata di rugiada. Alessandra Reale, Le Recensioni di Onda Rock
...a real testament to the beauty of subtlety. Featuring little more than strummed acoustic guitar and vocals throughout (augmented only momentarily by improvised percussion and piano) it’s hardly complex stuff – brilliantly understated, gentle and observant, and thankfully uncluttered by self-consciousness and misplaced optimism. - Music-News.com
....Hezekiah Jones is the recording name chosen by one Raphael Cutrufello, and Says You're A-OK is the collected works from various recording sessions throughout Philadelphia. While that may read like a sparse, lonesome affair - Hezekiah Says You're A-OK is lavishly decorated with many additional players and instruments including kazoo, slide whistle [see: "Writing Letters In The Morning"], percussion and the help on some foreign vocals ["Just Because It's Quiet.."]. "Hildebrand" reveals one of Hezekiah's strongest skills in their/his ability to begin a song at an upbeat tempo and mid-way shift into a lower gear - a bit like that lil' bastard choo-choo that didn't think he could climb the hill [but could and did, of course]. It is with the lyrical wealth that Cutrufello presents here - both in tone and tale - that gives Says You're A-OK its 'instant keeper' appeal. A truly magnificent, magical and harmonious album this Hezekiah Jones has sent for us - the battered and needy. This album could make watching air escape ever-so slowly from a faulty tire seem like the most beautiful event imaginable - crazy beautiful it is. -Kaleb, SCTAS
