Ancestor by Stone Jack Jones was one of our favourite new discoveries of the year, a beautifully poignant tribute to his father. The follow-up Love & Torture will be released next March. The album is a sonic dialog, at times experimental, that pulses with all of the grace and bliss that has touched Jack’s incredible life – he has been given the last rites on the … Continue reading New Album From Stone Jack Jones
We’ve had more than a few tasty videos for tasty tunes fly our way in the recent days and weeks. Here is a quick round-up of some of our favourites from the likes of Landlady, alansmithee, Handsome Jack, Hiss Golden Messenger, Split Screens, Stone Jack Jones, Yes I’m Leaving, Slaves, The Last Bison, The Ruminaters, Buffalo Stack and Chris Staples. . . . . . … Continue reading Video Round Up
Jackson stems from Stone Jack Jones’ excellent album of slow rollin’ Americana with southern gothic undertones, Ancestor, which we have posted about a few times this year. Settle back and watch the video. . . Continue reading Video: Stone Jack Jones – Jackson
As anyone who reads MM with any degree of regularity will no doubt know, we are recent and zealous new converts to the joys of Stone Jack Jones’ unsettling, haunting gothic-folk. We’ve already shared three tracks from his new record, Ancestor, and here is a fourth, Joy that also features Patty Griffin on vocals and movingly tells the story of his mother in law’s last … Continue reading Stone Jack Jones – Joy
Our first collection of free downloads from the new year taken from the best of our posts for January. Twenty tracks to tickle your fancy including, as always, a few new ones. Dig in. The Woodgrains – Nobody Too Lysergic folk-rock anchored by three part harmonies and an instinctive feel for classic songwriting. . The Rebel Set – Monster Vintage crash and snarl – a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2014
Although he has been round for a good number of years, the ambient tinged, unsettling Americana of Stone Jack Jones and his new album Ancestor has been a new discovery for us, and one of our favourites of the year so far. We’ve already given you a couple of tracks from the album here, and now we have a third in the shape of the mesmerising Red … Continue reading Another From Stone Jack Jones
We’re loving the slow pace and unsettling, woozy Americana of Stone Jack Jones’ State I’m In and Black Coal, both brilliant tasters from his third album Ancestor. The descendent of four generations of coalminers and rejected from seeing service in Vietnam, he became a wandering musician and by the time he eventually put down some roots in Nashville he had had worked as a carny, an escape … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Stone Jack Jones
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