Posts about Cotton Jones
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- “Be Brave” by The Strange Boys (Be Brave)
- “Marathon” by Tennis
- “Monster” by Magic Man (Real Life Color)
- “Glorylight And Christie” by Cotton Jones (Tall Hours In The Glowstream)
- “So Sorry, Girl” by Blackbird Blackbird (Happy High EP)
- “The Observer” by Brazos (Phosphorescent Blues)
- “Don’t Look That Way At It” by White Denim (Exposion)
- “We’ll Find Out” by Timber Timbre (Timber Timbre)
- “Bio Hassle” by Boogie Boarder (Pizza Hero)
- “Wehmut” by Josephine Foster (A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing)
*and the occasional old
When Maryland’s Cotton Jones showed up at Grand Army Plaza the morning after their short set at Le Poisson Rouge, the only thing they’d grabbed from their van was an acoustic guitar. Despite the inevitable traffic noise, we decided it’d be worthwhile to have Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw jump into the empty fountain and try a song there (for an opportunity to see Whitney sit on the lap of some frozen Greek hunk, if nothing else). We then headed to Prospect Park across the street, where they played several more songs, and the rest of the band lent doo-woops and finger-snapping while drummer Chris Morris settled on a pair of sticks, of different dimensions, to use for percussion.
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A new collection of Secret Garden performances will resume tomorrow, April 29th. Here’s a schedule of what’s in store. If you’re unfamiliar with this ever-changing magical garden, it is a mini-documentary series in which I film bands performing a few songs outside the context of a regular show. Along with the schedule you’ll also find some “candid band photos” that, as a tradition of my own, I take after each shoot.
If you’re a blogger who’d like to write a preview for any of these episodes before they release, just email me at hoovesontheturf [at] gmail [dot] com
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Last night at Le Poisson Rouge, Maryland’s Cotton Jones played a short set of about six songs; they said most were songs they don’t play very often. I’d forgotten how many members are in this band–six, and they’re all good. Even though I prefer this venue when they clear the floor for standing room (the seating arrangement feels a little too fancy), it has fantastic acoustics and it was great to hear Cotton Jones with so much clarity. They’re playing tonight at Union Hall with Lost in the Trees, and despite a muddier sound, that will probably be the show where they’ll play the hits and let loose a little. More pictures after the jump.
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Day 3 in Austin was March 19, 2009. We headed to Red House Pizzeria to meet with England’s Fanfarlo and shoot a Secret Garden video nearby.
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Admittedly, I’m not familiar with every single band involved in this year’s SXSW festivities, officially or unofficially, though I did listen to well over two hundred bands I don’t care to listen to ever again. Unlike them, the list compiled here includes twenty performers I think are most worth seeing, and for free, no less; as far as I know, all of them are either playing unofficial shows, or plan to play whatever last-minute gatherings that come their way.
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Where I take a 10-minute break from everything else and bring you three fine bands. Pictured above is view from my window seat on the way to DC.
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Where I indulge in the overrated phenomenon of a year-end list and discover my bias for sullen songs over happy ones; 20 most-loved songs of the year, with a self-imposed rule of one song per artist so as to not make it entirely pointless.
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Download “Original Bones” by Cotton Jones | Like its neighbor Cake Shop, Pianos hit full capacity on day four of CMJ; and as I mentioned earlier, Kashish was so taken with seeing Maryland’s Cotton Jones Basket Ride at the Red Bull Space the previous night that he headed to Pianos to catch them again, perhaps to get a more “authentic” New York show experience this time—the Red Bull Space was an interesting place to see bands you like, but it felt more like a posh, private party there, and the sound up front was pretty distorted; that venue is more suited for electronica shows. Anyhow, KEXP did a little CMJ push for Cotton Jones, mentioning that the band plans to release three EP’s before moving on to their debut full-length. All pics by Kashish.
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Download “Original Bones” by Cotton Jones | Apparently Oxford Collapse bassist was not having his best day at Red Bull Space on Thursday: Kashish tells me there was a big delay resulting from him not being happy with the sound of the bass guitar, even though bands who went before them seemed to have had no trouble, and later, when he decided to crowd-surf, a woman whose tooth got chipped from the tip of his bass guitar wasn’t too thrilled with the outcome. I think one’s tooth is definitely worth getting chipped, but probably not from an Oxford Collapse show at CMJ! On the other hand, Kashish was smitten with Cotton Jones, so much so that he went to see them again the next day. The show closed with The Broken West. All pics by Kashish.
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