The Bones of J.R. Jones

We are all sinners, we know this, and if you’re ready to celebrate your inevitable journey to the darkness, then buckle up, shut up, and just listen to this EP. With their music, emotions, and words, The Bones of J.R. Jones have captured my soul – with all of the pain and sadness and anger and love that it contains, with the darkness and the light, the love and hate – so damn deftly that at times, to be honest, it scares me. They switch between coming at you with hellfire and damnation preaching their version of the truth to suddenly, almost magically, bringing it down and back where they reach right into your chest and rip your heart out, leaving you wondering what the fuck just happened and where did these bullshit emotions come from.

There is a malevolent force at work here, but it is one that is strangely familiar, lurking just underneath the surface throughout almost all of their songs on The Wildness EP. This intrigues me, frightens me somewhat, but mostly enchants me and draws me in with my love for the strangely macabre and obscure. The 2nd track, La La Liar channels Denver’s angry and pious David Eugene Edwards with a tangible gothic revival vibe to it that feels like it’s been hanging around your consciousness for years, something akin to putting on an old, run down pair of your most comfortable shoes. This is also where the real darkness starts to seep in and, at this point, they’re just getting started.

The EP continues on to meander through myriad different genres of music and each song has a deftness to it that defies categorization. At times easy going, then pissed off and coming at you with a raised fist, then back to making you feel like you’re rambling down a dusty and worn road leading to a salvation that only your heart knows of, that can only be found by reaching the end of your journey, road-weary and beaten down, but ultimately content, familiar like an old, old friend with whom the conversation can pick up after years between installments. That is what this EP represents to me – a timeless conversation that is comfortable, yet bears a mild mark of melancholy for its inevitable end. This EP leaves me wanting more, and I know I’ll get it, and I’m anxious for it. This is the People’s Music – brutal, honest, dirty, sometimes mean, but lovely all at the same time. This music can make you sweat, or it might be that it just helps you realize that your sins are what are making you sweat, but sometimes you have to let go and trust that the artist knows what he is doing. The Bones of J.R. Bones deserve your trust, and your time, and ultimately, your love and appreciation. - NineBullets.net

The term gets thrown around a lot, but the music Jonathon Linaberry records as The Bones of J.R. Jones truly sounds “timeless” to my ears. In some part, that’s a result of the fact that his music isn’t inspired specifically by the contemporary music scene. For example, while you’ll find plenty of evidence of a lineage linking Linaberry’s music to artists like Blind Willie McTell and R.L. Burnside, you’ll discover little resembling Arcade Fire or Grimes. That may be because he pulls many of the threads of his inspiration from the sounds of everyday life such as the sound of boots shuffling across giant wood planks at a coffee shop or the change in tone that occurs when the doors open and close on a subway train. Put another way, Linaberry finds the magical in the mundane and spins it into something original. The buzz he’s generated has brought him recent gigs in Paris during Men’s Fashion Week, critically acclaimed sets at this year’s CMJ, and a residency at New York City’s hip Ace Hotel. Of course, unpretentious and unafraid, you’re just as likely to find Jonathon busking in a NYC subway station on a Friday night.

The single’s a-side “Shine On Me” is a shuffling and rootsy floorboard-stomping blues jam with an upbeat, rickety swing built around twanging banjo and upright bass as Linaberry hollers: “Lord, Lord, won’t you shine on me. I know I ain’t the worst that you seen.” With no shortage of voodoo, Linaberry effortlessly paints a picture so vivid you can almost touch it. Indeed, close your eyes and you’ll swear you can almost see the dust floating in the air as a rustic, aged wood floor bows and reverberates to the shuffle of boots through a robust, whiskey-fueled speakeasy.

The single’s b-side is the first demo recorded for his next album (tentatively called Reliable the Unreliable). The demo is titled “Dreams To Tell” and it’s a stripped down, rustic ballad built along little more than a spare banjo melody and Linaberry’s warm, earthy vocals. Whereas “Shine On Me” is a souldful tune playing through a lively and energetic saloon, the demo for “Dreams To Tell” sounds like an incantation in an abandoned clapboard house. This is the sound of Linaberry sitting on a wooden chair in a spacious room playing with passion and melancholy for the ghosts haunting his imagination. It’s spellbinding in it’s simplicity. Jonathon noted that since the recording of this version, the song has evolved in unexpected ways. For that reason, he suggested that this is likely the only release this version of the song will ever see. Enjoy! - www.turntablekitchen.com

The term gets thrown around a lot, but the music Jonathon Linaberry records as The Bones of J.R. Jones truly sounds “timeless” to my ears. In some part, that’s a result of the fact that his music isn’t inspired specifically by the contemporary music scene. For example, while you’ll find plenty of evidence of a lineage linking Linaberry’s music to artists like Blind Willie McTell and R.L. Burnside, you’ll discover little resembling Arcade Fire or Grimes. That may be because he pulls many of the threads of his inspiration from the sounds of everyday life such as the sound of boots shuffling across giant wood planks at a coffee shop or the change in tone that occurs when the doors open and close on a subway train. Put another way, Linaberry finds the magical in the mundane and spins it into something original. The buzz he’s generated has brought him recent gigs in Paris during Men’s Fashion Week, critically acclaimed sets at this year’s CMJ, and a residency at New York City’s hip Ace Hotel. Of course, unpretentious and unafraid, you’re just as likely to find Jonathon busking in a NYC subway station on a Friday night.

The single’s a-side “Shine On Me” is a shuffling and rootsy floorboard-stomping blues jam with an upbeat, rickety swing built around twanging banjo and upright bass as Linaberry hollers: “Lord, Lord, won’t you shine on me. I know I ain’t the worst that you seen.” With no shortage of voodoo, Linaberry effortlessly paints a picture so vivid you can almost touch it. Indeed, close your eyes and you’ll swear you can almost see the dust floating in the air as a rustic, aged wood floor bows and reverberates to the shuffle of boots through a robust, whiskey-fueled speakeasy.

The single’s b-side is the first demo recorded for his next album (tentatively called Reliable the Unreliable). The demo is titled “Dreams To Tell” and it’s a stripped down, rustic ballad built along little more than a spare banjo melody and Linaberry’s warm, earthy vocals. Whereas “Shine On Me” is a souldful tune playing through a lively and energetic saloon, the demo for “Dreams To Tell” sounds like an incantation in an abandoned clapboard house. This is the sound of Linaberry sitting on a wooden chair in a spacious room playing with passion and melancholy for the ghosts haunting his imagination. It’s spellbinding in it’s simplicity. Jonathon noted that since the recording of this version, the song has evolved in unexpected ways. For that reason, he suggested that this is likely the only release this version of the song will ever see. Enjoy! - www.turntablekitchen.com

The bones inside of J.R. Jones are possessed with the stomping blues sounds of yesteryear. A self-taught guitar and banjo player, J.R.’s fondness for old gospel hymns, blues men like Son House and R.L. Burnside, and artists like The Carter Family and Tom Waits, helped shape his sound, which has been described as “haunting stomp blues tempered with a touch of honey.”

Listen to The Bones of J.R. Jones on BandSoup

Wrapped in a blanket of lo-fi folk fuzz,“Shine On Me” (above song), illuminates Jones’ passionate and soulful lungs that sound like they are filled with the dust of haunted churches and the whiskey fueled dreams of forgotten blues virtuosos.

“LaLaLiar” (video below) proves that Jones is not a one trick pony. His voice and music might be nods to the past, but his aesthetics and visions are entirely modern and fresh. Watch the Ian Cinco directed sing-a-long skull video and try to tell me otherwise.

Both songs can be found on Jones’ 2012 release, The Wildness EP, which is now available for a pint of whiskey. - Bandsoup

The bones inside of J.R. Jones are possessed with the stomping blues sounds of yesteryear. A self-taught guitar and banjo player, J.R.’s fondness for old gospel hymns, blues men like Son House and R.L. Burnside, and artists like The Carter Family and Tom Waits, helped shape his sound, which has been described as “haunting stomp blues tempered with a touch of honey.”

Listen to The Bones of J.R. Jones on BandSoup

Wrapped in a blanket of lo-fi folk fuzz,“Shine On Me” (above song), illuminates Jones’ passionate and soulful lungs that sound like they are filled with the dust of haunted churches and the whiskey fueled dreams of forgotten blues virtuosos.

“LaLaLiar” (video below) proves that Jones is not a one trick pony. His voice and music might be nods to the past, but his aesthetics and visions are entirely modern and fresh. Watch the Ian Cinco directed sing-a-long skull video and try to tell me otherwise.

Both songs can be found on Jones’ 2012 release, The Wildness EP, which is now available for a pint of whiskey. - Bandsoup

We’ve always thought of each of our issues as a way to bring together our favorite people and things, a place for intriguing juxtapositions and unexpected concurrences. In our new series, The Last Talk, we’re bringing those pairings to life with unscripted, wide-ranging conversations between interesting people from distinct circles who have more in common than you might think. For our first Last Talk, Phillip Lim talked to blues singer Jonathon Linaberry—who performs as the Bones of J.R. Jones—earlier this summer about his inspirations, his heritage, and his fantasy self. Their conversation is below, accompanied by photographs from Linaberry’s August road trip from Seattle to Los Angeles.

PHILLIP LIM Since this is for The Last Magazine, and we’re doing The Last Talk, we’re going to start with the last question first.

JONATHON LINABERRY I like that.

PL Tenzin, you hear that? I’m good for freelance. Jonathon, you’re going to be my guinea pig. So the final question, which is actually from another fan of yours—I think she’s your number-one fan—is actually more of a request. If you could do a rendition of any song, which one would it be? I can give you a hint, too.

JL I think I know who asked this question, and she’d want to hear “Purple Rain.”

PL Bingo. I think you’d be great at that, I think your sound is perfect for it.

JL Yeah, I don’t know if I could compare to Prince. Those are some big shoes to fill.

PL It’s never a comparison. It’s like with anything. There’s never anything new, it’s the new context of it. Nothing’s new. When it’s new, it’s old the next second. If you weren’t able to make music any longer, what would you be doing?

JL That’s heartbreaking. Honestly I can’t imagine a scenario where I couldn’t make music. Regardless of if I’m armless or voiceless, I feel like I could always do something. If I was forced to choose, I’m a printmaker as well, so I would follow through with that, develop my lithography skills a little further.

PL Did you study that?

JL I did. I have a master’s in that.

PL Intellectual and talented, wow. Where’d you go to school?

JL I did my undergrad at Pratt in Brooklyn, which was what brought me here to the city originally. I’m from Syracuse originally. I moved here for Pratt and did my master’s up at New Paltz, about two hours north of the city.

PL So you have a master’s in…

JL MFA in printmaking and BFA in art and design education.

PL How’d you get into music?

JL My mother was very strict growing up. I had two brothers and it was the law of the land that once we reached six, we took piano for eight years. And once eight years had passed, we were old enough to decide whether we wanted to continue or not. Ironically, I had a teacher named Miss Hate—H-A-T-E—she lived on Pleasant Street and she kind of ruined it for me, so I quit piano after I turned fourteen.

PL You hated piano?

JL In retrospect, I realize that I loved it and I totally regret my decision to quit. I still play, but I should have continued lessons.

PL So you quit and you returned.

JL Well, kind of. I desperately wanted a guitar as a child and didn’t get one for a long time, so it was piano, piano, piano, and then I picked up the trombone, and then it was guitar finally, and then I kind of blossomed into this I guess.

PL And when did you finally get on a mike and…

JL Start singing? There are videos of me from when I was like six singing in front of the piano, writing songs on the piano, so I always felt most comfortable doing that I guess.

PL So you’re a natural-born showman.

JL I guess so, yeah.

PL What’s your sign?

JL I’m a Leo. Birthday’s next week actually.

PL Oh, well happy birthday. Let me guess…you’re going to be twenty-two?

JL You’re very generous. No, it’s a big one, I’ll be thirty.

PL What are three things you can’t live without?

JL Well the obvious answer is music, but I think I definitely can’t live without my family. I’m a huge family buff, I’m a sucker for calling my grandma three times a week or something like that.

PL Wow, that’s great. Do you speak with a family member once a day?

JL It depends who it is. I’ll call my dad probably three times a week.

PL Are you closest to him?

JL Yeah, he’s definitely the parental figure in my life, a source of guidance and always grounding me when I’m way off the mark. So definitely that, and pierogies. It’s my heritage I guess. I can never stop eating those, it’s such a sense of home for me to have those on my plate. And I guess just music, but blues music.

PL So music, pierogies, and family. What’s your heritage?

JL I’m Ukrainian, and my dad’s side has been here forever. Mainly Welsh mixed with Ukrainian.

PL What made you happy today?

JL Well we finally got Internet in my apartment, which was amazing. After nearly a year living there we finally sprung for it, which was life-changing. We can now go anywhere in the apartment and use it instead of ste - The Last Magazine

We’ve always thought of each of our issues as a way to bring together our favorite people and things, a place for intriguing juxtapositions and unexpected concurrences. In our new series, The Last Talk, we’re bringing those pairings to life with unscripted, wide-ranging conversations between interesting people from distinct circles who have more in common than you might think. For our first Last Talk, Phillip Lim talked to blues singer Jonathon Linaberry—who performs as the Bones of J.R. Jones—earlier this summer about his inspirations, his heritage, and his fantasy self. Their conversation is below, accompanied by photographs from Linaberry’s August road trip from Seattle to Los Angeles.

PHILLIP LIM Since this is for The Last Magazine, and we’re doing The Last Talk, we’re going to start with the last question first.

JONATHON LINABERRY I like that.

PL Tenzin, you hear that? I’m good for freelance. Jonathon, you’re going to be my guinea pig. So the final question, which is actually from another fan of yours—I think she’s your number-one fan—is actually more of a request. If you could do a rendition of any song, which one would it be? I can give you a hint, too.

JL I think I know who asked this question, and she’d want to hear “Purple Rain.”

PL Bingo. I think you’d be great at that, I think your sound is perfect for it.

JL Yeah, I don’t know if I could compare to Prince. Those are some big shoes to fill.

PL It’s never a comparison. It’s like with anything. There’s never anything new, it’s the new context of it. Nothing’s new. When it’s new, it’s old the next second. If you weren’t able to make music any longer, what would you be doing?

JL That’s heartbreaking. Honestly I can’t imagine a scenario where I couldn’t make music. Regardless of if I’m armless or voiceless, I feel like I could always do something. If I was forced to choose, I’m a printmaker as well, so I would follow through with that, develop my lithography skills a little further.

PL Did you study that?

JL I did. I have a master’s in that.

PL Intellectual and talented, wow. Where’d you go to school?

JL I did my undergrad at Pratt in Brooklyn, which was what brought me here to the city originally. I’m from Syracuse originally. I moved here for Pratt and did my master’s up at New Paltz, about two hours north of the city.

PL So you have a master’s in…

JL MFA in printmaking and BFA in art and design education.

PL How’d you get into music?

JL My mother was very strict growing up. I had two brothers and it was the law of the land that once we reached six, we took piano for eight years. And once eight years had passed, we were old enough to decide whether we wanted to continue or not. Ironically, I had a teacher named Miss Hate—H-A-T-E—she lived on Pleasant Street and she kind of ruined it for me, so I quit piano after I turned fourteen.

PL You hated piano?

JL In retrospect, I realize that I loved it and I totally regret my decision to quit. I still play, but I should have continued lessons.

PL So you quit and you returned.

JL Well, kind of. I desperately wanted a guitar as a child and didn’t get one for a long time, so it was piano, piano, piano, and then I picked up the trombone, and then it was guitar finally, and then I kind of blossomed into this I guess.

PL And when did you finally get on a mike and…

JL Start singing? There are videos of me from when I was like six singing in front of the piano, writing songs on the piano, so I always felt most comfortable doing that I guess.

PL So you’re a natural-born showman.

JL I guess so, yeah.

PL What’s your sign?

JL I’m a Leo. Birthday’s next week actually.

PL Oh, well happy birthday. Let me guess…you’re going to be twenty-two?

JL You’re very generous. No, it’s a big one, I’ll be thirty.

PL What are three things you can’t live without?

JL Well the obvious answer is music, but I think I definitely can’t live without my family. I’m a huge family buff, I’m a sucker for calling my grandma three times a week or something like that.

PL Wow, that’s great. Do you speak with a family member once a day?

JL It depends who it is. I’ll call my dad probably three times a week.

PL Are you closest to him?

JL Yeah, he’s definitely the parental figure in my life, a source of guidance and always grounding me when I’m way off the mark. So definitely that, and pierogies. It’s my heritage I guess. I can never stop eating those, it’s such a sense of home for me to have those on my plate. And I guess just music, but blues music.

PL So music, pierogies, and family. What’s your heritage?

JL I’m Ukrainian, and my dad’s side has been here forever. Mainly Welsh mixed with Ukrainian.

PL What made you happy today?

JL Well we finally got Internet in my apartment, which was amazing. After nearly a year living there we finally sprung for it, which was life-changing. We can now go anywhere in the apartment and use it instead of ste - The Last Magazine

What’s on his mind today:
Um. I suppose a number of things…if it’s ever gonna snow. If there’s ever going to be enough time to accomplish what needs to get done today. And how to get cat hair off my shirt. That’s the G-rated version.

What he’s currently working on:
Boiling water for tea. My debut EP The Wildness has just been released so I’m working on creating a little buzz for that – sending emails and PR statements to all the necessary people. Also prepping for a month-long residency in April at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn. REALLY excited about that.

What he thinks there is too little of:
Too little of the application of the golden rule – you know, that rule you’re taught in kindergarten – treat others as you would wish to be treated. People seem to forget it as they get older.

And too much of:
Mayonnaise. And cream cheese. Everywhere you go there’s always cream cheese and mayonnaise on everything. I don’t think the idea of mayonnaise is wrong, I think the over application of mayonnaise is wrong.

With whom he would most like to go on a “ tête à tête”:
Can they be dead? If dead, Mark Twain. If alive (I feel like people are always so much less interesting than you want them to be) but Tom Waits I guess.

What good energy means to him:
That unexpected and unplanned moment when things finally come into perspective and everything is calming – even if it’s for that one instant.

With whom he would like to run a country:
I would like to run the country with the craziest person I can find. That way my ideas would always seem great. (Laughs.)

What he would do if he was the president:
I would probably impeach myself or quit. I don’t really think I’m fit to be president.

What his most striking moment was:
I suppose it would be when I realized how badly I really wanted to play music for the rest of my life. When I asked for a guitar for Christmas and my older brother got one and I didn’t and how devastated I was that I wasn’t taken seriously. That I still think about that to this day is a little weird. I guess the good thing that came out of that was that I took over my dad’s acoustic toy guitar that was left behind by my older brother when he got the electric guitar for Christmas.

What his earliest memory is:
Two things come to mind – and I will say I have a horrible memory to start – but I remember falling down the stairs when I was really young trying to wear cowboy boots that were too big for me. I remember being comforted by my mother. I never went up and down the stairs in those boots again (I did wear them though.) The other is being at Chuck-E-Cheese’s on my fourth birthday and being scared of going into the ball pit – I thought it was water – I think maybe my brother told me it was. I don’t remember him saying it but it sounds like something he would have said to me.

What he considers a fashion “faux-pas”?
Brightly colored high-contrast juxtaposing patterns. Animal print pants and tribal print tops.You can’t really say black and brown or blue and black because people wear that all the time now. I suppose I’ve even eased up on that end too.

What cracks him up:
My girlfriend. And people who wear sunglasses indoors. That cracks me up.

What five things he would put in a time capsule:
A newspaper.
A Twinkie.
A copy of The Giver by Lois Lowry.
A dictionary.
Instructions to close me up and bury me again.

What his last dream was about:
I’m a bartender and usually my dreams are some sort of a work nightmare – not being able to make drink fast enough etc.

What kind of movement he would like to start:
Nothing. Don’t you think there’s enough “movements” out there?

Who represents his “artistic” family:
If you mean people that I’m inspired by through books and albums etc. I’ve already mentioned two of them: Mark Twain would be the crazy uncle, Tom Waits the reclusive grandfather, and Ernest Hemmingway would be the drunk stepfather. I guess I need a mother…well, my mother, who would be the eccentric disciplinarian of artistic endeavors – she really pushed us to study piano and encouraged our (my brothers and I) artistic growth.

With whom he would like to grow old?
My love.

What he would like to leave to the future generation:
I would like to instill in them a grounded unselfish perspective of the world. Or teach them not to be f*cking lazy.

What his WILD Wish is
To be content. To find out what came first, the chicken or the egg. I feel like that I can only wish for something that I know I can experience. Okay. Um. I wish that at any given moment, despite the time of day or day in the year, I wish I could transport myself to another time. So say in March I would wish to be in the Catskills in the middle of a warm October day or to be on a beach somewhere in August at 6:35 a.m. - The Wild Magazine

What’s on his mind today:
Um. I suppose a number of things…if it’s ever gonna snow. If there’s ever going to be enough time to accomplish what needs to get done today. And how to get cat hair off my shirt. That’s the G-rated version.

What he’s currently working on:
Boiling water for tea. My debut EP The Wildness has just been released so I’m working on creating a little buzz for that – sending emails and PR statements to all the necessary people. Also prepping for a month-long residency in April at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn. REALLY excited about that.

What he thinks there is too little of:
Too little of the application of the golden rule – you know, that rule you’re taught in kindergarten – treat others as you would wish to be treated. People seem to forget it as they get older.

And too much of:
Mayonnaise. And cream cheese. Everywhere you go there’s always cream cheese and mayonnaise on everything. I don’t think the idea of mayonnaise is wrong, I think the over application of mayonnaise is wrong.

With whom he would most like to go on a “ tête à tête”:
Can they be dead? If dead, Mark Twain. If alive (I feel like people are always so much less interesting than you want them to be) but Tom Waits I guess.

What good energy means to him:
That unexpected and unplanned moment when things finally come into perspective and everything is calming – even if it’s for that one instant.

With whom he would like to run a country:
I would like to run the country with the craziest person I can find. That way my ideas would always seem great. (Laughs.)

What he would do if he was the president:
I would probably impeach myself or quit. I don’t really think I’m fit to be president.

What his most striking moment was:
I suppose it would be when I realized how badly I really wanted to play music for the rest of my life. When I asked for a guitar for Christmas and my older brother got one and I didn’t and how devastated I was that I wasn’t taken seriously. That I still think about that to this day is a little weird. I guess the good thing that came out of that was that I took over my dad’s acoustic toy guitar that was left behind by my older brother when he got the electric guitar for Christmas.

What his earliest memory is:
Two things come to mind – and I will say I have a horrible memory to start – but I remember falling down the stairs when I was really young trying to wear cowboy boots that were too big for me. I remember being comforted by my mother. I never went up and down the stairs in those boots again (I did wear them though.) The other is being at Chuck-E-Cheese’s on my fourth birthday and being scared of going into the ball pit – I thought it was water – I think maybe my brother told me it was. I don’t remember him saying it but it sounds like something he would have said to me.

What he considers a fashion “faux-pas”?
Brightly colored high-contrast juxtaposing patterns. Animal print pants and tribal print tops.You can’t really say black and brown or blue and black because people wear that all the time now. I suppose I’ve even eased up on that end too.

What cracks him up:
My girlfriend. And people who wear sunglasses indoors. That cracks me up.

What five things he would put in a time capsule:
A newspaper.
A Twinkie.
A copy of The Giver by Lois Lowry.
A dictionary.
Instructions to close me up and bury me again.

What his last dream was about:
I’m a bartender and usually my dreams are some sort of a work nightmare – not being able to make drink fast enough etc.

What kind of movement he would like to start:
Nothing. Don’t you think there’s enough “movements” out there?

Who represents his “artistic” family:
If you mean people that I’m inspired by through books and albums etc. I’ve already mentioned two of them: Mark Twain would be the crazy uncle, Tom Waits the reclusive grandfather, and Ernest Hemmingway would be the drunk stepfather. I guess I need a mother…well, my mother, who would be the eccentric disciplinarian of artistic endeavors – she really pushed us to study piano and encouraged our (my brothers and I) artistic growth.

With whom he would like to grow old?
My love.

What he would like to leave to the future generation:
I would like to instill in them a grounded unselfish perspective of the world. Or teach them not to be f*cking lazy.

What his WILD Wish is
To be content. To find out what came first, the chicken or the egg. I feel like that I can only wish for something that I know I can experience. Okay. Um. I wish that at any given moment, despite the time of day or day in the year, I wish I could transport myself to another time. So say in March I would wish to be in the Catskills in the middle of a warm October day or to be on a beach somewhere in August at 6:35 a.m. - The Wild Magazine

For a music blogger with a passion for movies, there's only thing better than finding out about a new great song: finding out a fantastic song + video combo! We just stumbled upon this wonderful video by The Bones of J.R. Jones (it was posted in The Deli's Open Blog, where anybody can post blurbs about bands, videos, and Mp3s). Brainchild of J.R.Linaberry, this project combines, in a very personal way, sorrowful folk lullabies with down-south stomp blues. J.R. landed a 4 week April residency at quaint east Williamsburg venue Pete's Candy Store (709 Lormier Street), the last show is tomorrow April 25 - if you are into this, do not miss, the show is free! - The Deli Magazine

For a music blogger with a passion for movies, there's only thing better than finding out about a new great song: finding out a fantastic song + video combo! We just stumbled upon this wonderful video by The Bones of J.R. Jones (it was posted in The Deli's Open Blog, where anybody can post blurbs about bands, videos, and Mp3s). Brainchild of J.R.Linaberry, this project combines, in a very personal way, sorrowful folk lullabies with down-south stomp blues. J.R. landed a 4 week April residency at quaint east Williamsburg venue Pete's Candy Store (709 Lormier Street), the last show is tomorrow April 25 - if you are into this, do not miss, the show is free! - The Deli Magazine