Jack Everly - Everything Comes Up Roses - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Having established himself as a guitar slinging matinee idol fronting Welsh riot starters Trampolene and riding shotgun in Peter Doherty's band the Puta Madres, Jack Jones releases his debut solo album 'Jack Jones'. For this album Jack Jones has put away his guitar and embraced a fresh and highly contemporary sound in which to couch his hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing.His lyrics tackle many of today's burning issues mental health, drug addiction, mortality, and the tortuous demands of technology. There's also joy and hope in there. With some of his catchiest tunes so far, it's a record that'll both open up this natural-born star to untapped audiences, and reveal hidden depths to those already 'on the team'.Much like the first Specials album at the turn of the 1980s, you can imagine 'Jack Jones' being useful to youngsters in 2024 trying to navigate the problems of today - swap birth control and street violence for mindless hedonism and mental-health struggles, and you have an equally bold and connective roadmap to the pitfalls of contemporary young-adult living.Jack Jones has enjoyed Top 10 success with TRAMPOLENE on the Independent Album Charts with three Top 10 Albums, hit the road as special guest to Liam Gallagher at the personal request of the iconic frontman, supported The Libertines on an Arena Tour as 'Tour Poet' and had the honour of being the first act to headline Swansea Arena.

On their debut collaboration, Teddy Thompson (son of Richard Thompson (ex Fairport Convention, and a very successful Solo artist - folk / folk-rock)) and Linda Thompson (folk solo artist) and Kelly Jones (not the Stereophonics singer) give listeners ten engaging views of the joys and sorrows of love and the vagaries of the human heart - from wide-eyed wonderment ('Wondering') to lingering nostalgia ('I Thought That We Said Goodbye'), from promises ('Make A Wish On Me') and pleas ('Don't Remind Me') to sad self-deception ('Better At Lying'). Longtime mutual admirers, Teddy and Kelly (or TT and KJ, as they affectionately call each other) first sang together at LA's Club Largo in 2011. A George Jones song. The harmony blend was goosebump good. It seemed only natural to do more. There began a two-year, bi-coastal, multi-seasonal creative volley. Some of the songs were penned in summer, in a West Hollywood bungalow surrounded by palm trees and cactuses. The others arrived during fall and winter, in a Greenwich Village high-rise with a skyline view. But no matter the setting or season, Teddy, Kelly and their writing partner Bill DeMain (aka BD) were only concerned with capturing complex emotions with simple honesty, and writing songs that would measure up to those by favorite artists like the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and Sam Cooke. And open these Little Windows, one by one, over and over, and you'll discover something wonderfully moving and true in each.

Founded in summer 2013, Travelin Jack have developed into one of Germany's most unusual rock acts over the past four years, establishing their inimitable style, which is tailored to the vocals of Alia Spaceface, with two successful tours and shows at important festivals beyond the German borders. The general flair of Commencing Countdown may bring to mind great rock groups from the seventies, such as Thin Lizzy, Rush, Scorpions and Deep Purple, but the Berlin band's compositions and the warm, analogue production of their new album are both contemporary and modern. Kraemer InchThere's nothing retro about our material, we simply prefer the sound of the era when this music was really wicked.Inch