in
your face vocals. The opening number on this five track EP; ‘Shame
On Me’ lays a mellow guilt trip that could even make
George W Bush himself stumble, as Jones’ Matt Hales
meets Damien Rice vocals gently but sternly rip into the
treatment of tramps by society;
“Cops killed a bum last night and
I’m not sure quite how.
I guess it’s illegal to be a transient now?
Kick ‘em off the street corner, vote ‘em out of town.
How can it be so easy to kick a man when he is down?”
Each track contains insight and harmony
that makes Jones music soothing and at the same time insightful.
Middle America will think he has gone way to far in ‘Cart
before The Horse’, one of the most damning and daring
anti-war songs ever written, what is more it is done in an
acoustic fuelled manner. Jones decries the treatment of war
prisoners ripping into the US Government’s derogation
of civil liberties and believe me, his quiet indignation
knows no bounds! Despite the relatively small number of tracks
contained on this debut EP, the 23 year old Jones has been
known to do live shows consisting of two hours of original
material. The only problem is that if the FBI gets hold of
the EP and listens to ‘Cart before the horse’,
then if you want to hear him live you will have to travel
to Guatemano Bay in order to do so.
www.greengarlicrecords.com
David Adair
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