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Housing Works Benefit - 4/18 - With Freedy Johnston and Dawn Landes,
03 Apr 2008 in Come see us play& Announcements& News
Hey Everyone,
We’re psyched to announce that we’re playing Housing Work’s “Live From Home” benefit at Housing Works Bookstore with Freedy Johnston and Dawn Landes on 04/18!
This’ll be an awesome show and it’s for a great cause - take a look at the info and link below to buy tickets…
Friday, 4/18 @ 7:00 PM - Housing Works Bookstore
126 Crosby St (just South of Houston)
New York, NY
Cost:$20
Buy Tickets: www.housingworksbookstore.com -
The JSB @ Mercury Lounge MON 1/21 - Sundance Film Fest 1/23,
17 Jan 2008 in Come see us play& Announcements& News
Mark you calendars: it is sooooo on. The JSB invade The Mercury Lounge next Monday, 1/21 with our friends in Frauke for a night of relentless MLK day revelry. Don’t miss it as we strut our way through your favorite JSB tunes about heartache, headache, and “a lonely gay zombie searching for love and meaning in contemporary Berlin.”
OK fair enough. So we’ve never actually written a song about that last topic. We’re just practicing for our appearances at Sundance. The ever witty Amelie Gillette (writer of the Onion’s blog The Hater), has some great suggestions on how to make anything relevent and Sundance-appropriate. Check them out HERE.
We’re trying extra hard to be film-star cool as we’ll be traveling by plane the day after The Mercury Lounge gig to the land of ski and bunny to play a quaint little Redford festival called Sundance. If you’re in Utah, please come out and say hello as we’ll be playing a showcase at the Sidecar Bar in the afternoon, and then a knock em’ down, drag em’ out VIP party in the evening.
So the gist, boiled down and trimmed of verbose fat via an exceedingly expensive liposuction and lift procedure: Unless you’ll be in Utah on Wednesday, get thee to the Mercury Lounge on Monday 1/21.
Because skiing isn’t just for athletes - it’s for crazy folks too,
the jsb
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Thank You,
03 Dec 2007 in Announcements& News
Hey Everyone,
It’s official - we won The Deli “Artist of the Month” for December! Now our goofy mugs will be featured on the homepage of www.thedelimagazine.com all month!
Seriously though - to everyone who voted, we thank you from the bottom of our instruments…
Love,
JSB
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JSB on XM Satellite Radio,
11 Oct 2007 in Announcements& News
Great news JSB fans! We’re going to debut on XM Satellite radio (XMU - Channel 43) on The Radar Report tonight (Thursday, 10/11) at 10:00pm EST… It also re-airs every Friday at 2pm ET and Saturday at 6am ET.
http://www.xmradio.com or http://xmu.xmradio.com
If you don’t have XM you can listen online with a free account by hitting up http://xmro.xmradio.com - use the following code: XMB4MD
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Pre-Order “Overcome”,
26 Sep 2007 in Album Info& News
If you can’t wait till Tuesday, you can Pre-Order “Overcome” at Amazon.
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“Overcome” Press Release - Album Available 10/2,
26 Sep 2007 in Come see us play& Album Info& Announcements& News
“Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft — and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.”– Greil Marcus
OVERCOME, the debut album by The Jones Street Boys on Brooklyn’s Smith Street Records Release: October 2nd, 2007
***Featuring punk legend Jon Langford (The Mekons/Waco Brothers)***
*October residency at New York’s fabled The Living Room*
“For a band of Brooklynites, the Jones Street Boys kick up a pretty good hillbilly stomp on Overcome (Smith Street). They play their catchy originals with virtuosic mandolin jams and honky-tonk piano fillers, and top them with off-kilter, good-time harmonies.”– Time Out New York
New York Bluegrass, blues, and good old fashioned rock and roll… The Jones Street Boys are steeped in American music. Their role models are as various as their moods. From the pop-punk infectiousness of “Last Time,” to the country-tinged promise of “One Last Love Song,” featuring a surprising guest lead vocal by Jon Langford, The Jones Street Boys give every listener something with which to identify.
Veterans ofNew York City’s music scene, The Jones Street Boys bring it home on OVERCOME (Smith Street Records; October 2nd, 2007), their debut album. Twelve tracks showcase the band’s signature sound: tight compositions played with a loose, live feel. Master storytellers, they sing and play with a rare ease and confidence that allows the words and notes room to breathe. Indeed, allows these elements to be the story, as well as tell it.
And in the end, it all comes down to the story. Four of the Boys are songwriters, and nine of OVERCOME’S tracks are original compositions. Love and loss manifest themselves in a multitude of forms on the album, from a captain and his ship in “Julia Belle” to the hesitant connections—to a friend or a bottle—in “Hello Lonesome” and “Oh Night.” The title track, “Overcome,” articulates the foundation of all the Jones Street Boys’ work: the dichotomy of misfortune. To be overcome—capsized by time and emotion—creates the opportunity to overcome, rising above. In the tradition of timeless songwriting, OVERCOME relates inevitable struggle, and it is the breath of hope that finally radiates from each song.
Three courageous covers round out the album and pay homage to heroes: Bill Monroe, John Hartford, and The Band. “Walls of Time,” “
Tall Buildings,” and “Twilight” shine with the Boys’ reworking of traditional arrangements. In particular, they have made “Walls of Time” their own. This bluegrass jam standard is here transformed into a love song as rich and alive as the soil in which the whistling pines grow. Co-author Peter Rowan has even given it his expert stamp of approval. And “Tall Buildings” has become the Boys’ signature sign-off, the haunting harmony in their partially acapella presentation never fails to ground their audience to the present, as colored by the bittersweet past and future.
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS:
10.1.07 The Living Room (Oct. Residency) NYC
10.8.07 The Living Room (Oct. Residency) NYC
10.15.07 The Living Room (Oct. Residency) NYC
10.22.07 The Living Room (Oct. Residency) NYC
10.29.07 The Living Room (Oct. Residency) NYC
