Spotlight – Steven Cracknell

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Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Steven Cracknell – trumpet and trombones on “Intro Wankery” and “The Hapless Oaf”
Leicester, England – musician and producer

I recruited and compensated several different brass players but couldn’t get the right bouncy/happy vibe until I found Steven. He suggested adding trumpets on top of trombones to give each tune a little more sparkle.

Hire Steven directly –
https://soundbetter.com/profiles/57073-golden-mile-studio

Spotlight – Matthew Fry

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Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Matthew Fry – electric bass guitar
South Wales – bassist, songwriter

My timing is shit these days and the bass guitar is my favorite and most important instrument next to drums. I really needed someone who could take a lot of melodic and interesting parts and play them the way they were intended. Matthew can really do it all, never over-playing but always right there and perfect. He played all sorts of bass guitars on the album, on a majority of the tracks.

Learn more about Matthew here
https://www.matthewfrybass.com/

Spotlight – Max Eider

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Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Max Eider – guitar solo on “The Hapless Oaf”
England – guitarist and songwriter

As mentioned in a previous post, Max was one of my favorite musicians growing up, performing solo and as part of The Jazz Butcher with other notables like David J of Bauhaus. His incredible playing is something to behold, but his songs, humor and personality are what set him apart. I contacted him on a ‘I wonder if it would be at all possible to have one of my heroes play’ whim and yes he agreed – providing a solo that sound like it was intended to be there from the beginning.

View some of his new solo videos –
https://www.youtube.com/user/tundraducks/videos

Visit Max’s website to learn more about him
http://www.maxeider.com/

And go purchase his entire catalog right now!
https://tundraducks.bandcamp.com/

William Jacobsen

Spotlight – William Jacobsen

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Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

William Jacobsen – guitar solo on “Dance Her Way to Hell (1984 Mix)”
Norwegian guitarist and composer

The last/bonus track on the album is a parody of mid-eighties pop hits. Overtly synthesized everything with repetitive programmed drums, I felt like I needed at least one real musician to perform an Eddie Van Halen-esque solo. William took it seriously and created the perfect solo adding insane shreddy-ness at the very end of his part.

Check out his guitar solo cover of Avenged Sevenfold’s “Natural Born Killer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgjT8vM-24

Sam Spranger

Spotlight – Sam Spranger

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Sam Spranger

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Sam Spranger – chromatic harmonica on “The Lovely Mary Eleanore”
London England – harmonicist & guitarist

I was doing my best Jellyfish/Burt Bacharach impression and had written a swingy harmonica part but real chromatic harmonica players are very hard to find. Low and behold Seydel-endorsed Sam appeared and took my original part and made it his own.

Check out his solo performance of “Nine Below Zero”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0fdpWcrxGU

and visit his website to learn more https://www.mybrokenharp.com/

Spotlight – James Paul Mitchell

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Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

James Paul Mitchell – solo electric guitar on “The Subconscious Disease”
Nashville guitarist, songwriter and producer

I had a melancholy yet affirming tune towards the end of the album already dripping with pedal steel guitar but was looking for a nice solo guitar to put it over the top. After several days of searching, I found James. After reading – “Riddled with dark humor and blunt musings on mental and emotional health” – from his bio about his solo work “Was Sad Before it Was Cool” – I knew I had found someone who could add exactly what I was looking for.

Check out James’ “Jill Song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0fdpWcrxGU

or visit his website to learn more https://www.jamespaulmitchell.com/