Saturday, June 10, 2006

Take a listen!



I bet not everyone has heard these so here's a couple of obscure Jason Wilber cuts to get you psyched up. There's about ten of his songs that are tied for my favorite but I'm hoping he'll play at least one of these tomorrow. He didn't write "Killing The Blues" but I've included it because I've heard several people record it but no-one does it even close to as good has him. Obviously his songwriting is great and he's a great singer and musician but his unique production style is another dimension to appreciate. Nothing else I've heard quite sounds like it. I've held it up over the last couple of years to audio engineers working for me and to many other people in the industry as an example of a cool anti-Nashville, all Americana sound. Listen once and then go back and listen to each of the components, like just to the drums. It's all very natural and sparse and very cool. How he came to make records that sound like this was my first question to him in our first phone call. Let's ask him a lot more about that tomorrow.

1. I Can't See You Anymore
2. The Ballad Of Amazing Grace And Sideshow Dan
3. Killing The Blues

3 Comments:

Blogger Jimmie Bell Whipple said...

Wow!
Amazing show, great people, yummy eats, beautiful & comfortable setting, marvelous sound, fabulous songs and so close to home!
Thanks, Jason!

8:57 PM  
Blogger John Whipple said...

My favorite comment of the night was Jimmie when she held up a plate of what looked like cherry something or other and said "We'd like to thank everybody for the wonderful food they brought... specially the person that brought this stuff I'm eating right here". That was classic.

9:31 AM  
Blogger Kim Mackenzie / Kim Hubbeling said...

I'm really sorry I missed it (wasn't feeling well) and glad it was such a huge success.

7:32 AM  

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