JP Jones - Angels on the Road

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"If you never buy another indie album this year, this would be the one to get. "Angels on the Road" is a CD for those musical and lyrical purists in the world. It's an understated piece of brilliance... by one of the best songwriters in the indie world." -- www.independentsongwriter.com

Angels on the Road was recorded in the Fall of 1996 when an anonymous "Angel" funded the project (and provided funding for further work and freeing me up from more mundane ways of making a living). Again, recorded by Lloyd Salisbury at his 8-track Flat Rock Studios in Moosup, CT. (Yeah, that's the real name of the town.)

Dubbed "The Loose Associations," the band consisted of Mike Fischman on mandolin, classical & electric guitar, Kurt Meyer on fretless and bowed bass, Vinnie Pasternak on violin, viola, electric guitar, eggs, and percussion, Steve Tavares on drums and percussion, and Lloyd Salisbury on electric guitar and tambourine.

One of the more pleasurable sessions, we recorded everything in three days with a couple of songs that didn't make the CD (there's 15 songs already on it!), one or three takes per track, and mixed the thing in a few days. Two or three overdubs (not my vocals), and we were done.

Mastered by David Correia at Celebration Sound.

photo: Kerstin Zettmar