Jesse Jones
Album - One Memory for the Road 2013
Album - One Memory for the Road 2013
Music
in Northeast Alabama Seems to be as fertile as the soil , as fresh as
the air and as refreshing as water drawn from a cool mountain stream .
Jesse Jones knows this all too well . Jones 's first recollection of
Country music as a very young farm boy Was That of the voice of Ray
Price and the Cherokee Cowboys coming from the old radio in the front
room of a shotgun shack . Jones was drawn to the stories of the Country
songs I heard at an early age . I Knew That I wanted to write songs like
the one's I've heard on late night Radio stations like WSM in Nashville
and WBAP in Fort Worth. Jones's musical interests Were not limited to
the radio .... It was literally in his bloodline . His paternal
grandmother 's family , The Wootten family from Sand Mountain, Alabama
Were Well Known Sacred Harp singers and continue the tradition even
today . Jones's ancestors Have Been Continuing the craft of "shape note"
singing for more than 150 years . But Jones was drawn more and more to
the honky tonk country sound THROUGHOUT his life . Artists like Darrell
McCall, Tony Booth and Johnny Bush impacted his songwriting style in the
late 1960 's Incorporating a Texas feel to the Already Folk / Gospel
upbringing I had in the mountains of Northeast Alabama. In this 10 -song
collection , Jones finds himself as the artist and songwriter .
Although Jones has written much of this project , I have to pays homage
other songwriters like Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry who are from the same
farm soil as Jones himself . One For The Road Memory is nothing but
hardcore honky tonk country from a songwriter from the school of
Haggard, Jones and Putman . Turn it up , pop the top and enjoy fertile ,
fresh, cleansing power of Country traditionalism Jesse Jones -style.
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