Member Since: 1/6/2006
Band Website: songsofjonathanwilson.com
Influences: Quilts and Africa:
Sounds Like: Early Gibb Brother in his new Tennesee home meets Valcomb Rose meets Nick Drake whilst drunk meets solo white piano Lennon meets Ramblin' Jack's ramblins' meets Mel Tillis' "experimental period" meets Donovans tremolo meets Daniel Lanois' wet dream meets David Gilmore's Pompeii soundcheck meets Emitt Rhodes' first 16 track meets Roger Miller's mechanic meets Phil Spector's tracksheet meets Sir Paul's RAM demos meets Nebraska meets Bobby Dylan's fishing partner meets Dave Von Ronk's tailor meets Doc Watson's hand when it falls asleep meets a big a long body, chrome top, VF-14 meets a V72 meets a Pultec meets a BA-6A meets tracks 1-24 meets a "dogpen" reverb meets an ATR-102 meets a trusty A to D conversion meets a nastily and nasally low-fi, low bandwidth Myspace compression algorithm meets your ears.French revenge and holistic Review:
Velvets pants crimson, marriage hat 1973, scarves to the patchouli, bloomed beard: Jonathan Wilson is a method engraving ideal for the New York 2007. Scene companion of indisputable mavericks of the guitare-qui-tue-les-fascistes (Vetiver, Bert Jansch, Nick Castro…). Been born in the mountains brumeuses of the Caroline of the North, Jonathan Wilson preserved local folklores, the bluegrass notably, this beautiful seriousness, this generous destitution, this modest virtuosity; California where it is himself refugee, it adopted this nonchalance mixture and of frenzy: it has beautiful to live calmly by the desert, far men, his studio is a fourmilière, from which 2007!
One will repair therefore of this songwriting that ate the dust of the desert, but drunk the water of the Pacific, at once gnarled, bluesy, hairier and more nevertheless more elegant, more sensual, dandy. This is rare beauty of this Frankie Ray: to possess a DNA where Gram Parsons, Curtis Mayfield, Alex Chilton and Nick Drake would be at equality. Not astonishing that this Wilson, to the ideal name to succeed in the pop strange one, grew in the same mountains, to the same altitude, that Sparklehorse.
Record Label: Pretty and Black, ltd.
Type of Label: Indie