Ephemeral Oddities
Listen and even (gulp) buy the album
Track Listing
01 Intro Wankery
02 Awoken from Cryosleep
03 What God Believes
04 The High Life
05 Big Bag
06 Theme for a Buddy Detective Show
07 Paper Taken by the Wind
08 The Hapless Oaf
09 The Lovely Mary Eleanore
10 What We Know of the Jackaroo
11 Central Day Light Time
12 The Subconscious Disease
13 We All Live in a Computer
14 Dance Her Way to Hell (1984 Mix)
Written, arranged, performed and produced by Jeff Jones
With outstanding performances by some extremely talented folks
Darrell Nutt – Drums and Percussion
Matthew Fry – Electric Bass Guitar
The Legendary Rich Gilbert – “Electric Guitar on ‘Awoken from Cryosleep’, ‘What God Believes’, ‘The High Life’ and ‘The Subconscious Disease’
Pedal Steel on ‘Big Bag’ and ‘The Subconscious Disease'”
Chris Stillo – Co-writer, Backing Vocals, Organ and Rhodes on ‘Big Bag’
Steven Cracknell – Valve Trombone and Trumpet on “Intro Wankery” and ‘The Hapless Oaf’
Sam Spranger – Chromatic Harmonica on ‘The Lovely Mary Eleanore’
William Jacobsen – Guitar Solo on ‘Dance Her Way to Hell’
James Paul Mitchell – Guitar Solo on ‘The Subconscious Disease’
Joe Schwartzott – Arpeggio Guitar on ‘The High Life’
and Max Eider – Guitar Solo on ‘The Hapless Oaf’
Mixed by Paul Williams
What God Believes’ Mixed by Joe Reeves
Mastered by James Driscoll
Album Artwork by Daniel Vincent
Special thanks to Joe Schwartzott for inspiring ‘Dance Her Way to Hell’ and ‘Big Bag’
and to Mary Norvell for being so supportive of this creative and therapeutic endeavor
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About
I hadn’t done any writing or playing in over a decade, but rustily started back up last fall and wrote a bunch of stuff. New Years Eve 2019 said that’s enough loops and demos, let’s pick 14 or so, explode, enhance, refine and release them. No intention to perform live, so I could do whatever I wanted, variety of old styles, etc.
Even though we are currently sheltering in place, the entire recording was already planned to be done remotely with players from around the world.
Back in December I started researching a ton of drummers who had their own studios or could record remotely and found Darrell Nutt, who was a bad-ass across multiple styles but also really understood the songs and what I was going for.
I thought my bass parts were good, but still not sharp enough so I found the Welsh wonder Matthew Fry who played the parts perfectly and added his own flair.
The big ‘get’ was The Legendary Rich Gilbert – one of my heroes who played guitar with Frank Black and the Catholics back in the day! His guitars and pedal steel are on 5 of the tracks. What an awesome result.
I recruited several other talented folks to play horns (Steven Cracknell), guitar solos (William Jacobsen and James Paul Mitchell), and harmonica (Sam Spranger).
Joe Schwartzott even played some arpeggio guitars
And as a final, put-me-over-the moon, special treat, the incredible Max Eider performed a wonderful guitar solo on ‘The Hapless Oaf’!
