Providing Musical Distractions for our Sick, Sad World
MArti Jones – Follow You All Over the World A quiet, understated, heart-breakingly beautiful, lost classic from Ms. Jones‘ 1985 album Unsophisticated Time. Produced by her husband, Don Dixon. Perfect for a Sunday morning. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Wild, Loose, Raucous typically all-over-the-place Mix from the Infinite Jones Archives. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(i Know) I’m Losing You (Cornelius Grant, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland and Norman Whitfield) The first 3 versions are all produced by Legendary Motown Producer and co-writer of the song, Norman Whitfield. The original Temptations version from their 1967 With a Lot O’ Soul album is pretty damn near perfect. But, that didn’t stop …
The Feelies – Slipping (Into Something) The Feelies are masters of dynamics and control. This song, from their 1986 album The Good Earth, builds from dead calm to full blown rave-up while making it seem easy. It is both soothing and thrilling. A neat trick. Enjoy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Iron City Houserockers – Friday Night The Infinite Jones Archives contain a large collection of Friday Songs. Beginning today, we will post one each Friday until we run out (of good ones). To start things off, this favorite by Pittsburgh’s legendary Iron City Housrockers from their 1981 album Blood on the Bricks. A great …
Wonderful WENE Wadio: Whoopee! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kostas Bezos and the White Birds – Let’s Go to Honolulu It’s snowing here at Infinite Jones HQ so, here is a sunny little song to warm things up. This is an example of “Havagies”, a style of Greek music influenced by Hawaiian music and popular there in the 1930’s. Yodeling, ukuleles and steel guitars played …
Heads, Hands & Feet – Country Boy Unjustly ignored (British) Country Rock band featuring the great Albert Lee on Guitar. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You will probably recognize this guy even if you are not sure from where. He appeared in many television and movie roles, quite often as a Biker. What we at Infinite Jones were surprised to find out was that he had a previous career as a drummer in the ’60’s. He was a member of …
Continue reading “RIP Character Actor / Musician Mickey Jones”
Charles Mingus – west Coast Ghost We here at Infinite Jones are BIG Charles Mingus fans. This is from his 1957 album East Coasting. West Coast Ghost moves deftly from soothing to exhilarating and is a great example of how Mingus allows his players freedom to improvise within a composition. Enjoy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
