Artist.......: Jonathan Wilson
Album........: Live aux Vieilles Charrues
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2014-07-25
Str.date.....: 2013-07-00
Quality......: 210kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://songsofjonathanwilson.com/
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1. Live aux Vieilles Charrues 51:20
Runtime 51:20
Size 77.45
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Jonathan Wilson was born in the mid-'70s, but his music most clearly recalls an
era whose heyday came a few years before he came into the world; the deep but
gentle vibe of his songs is an echo of the Laurel Canyon mellow rock scene of
the late '60s and early '70s, and it's no surprise that he found a home in the
very same section of California years after the fact. Wilson was born in Forest
City, North Carolina on December 30, 1974. He grew up surrounded by music: his
grandfather was a preacher at a Baptist church, and his father was a musician
and bandleader. In 1995, Wilson, who had become an accomplished guitarist and
keyboardist, formed the band Muscadine with his friend Benji Hughes; the group
caught the attention of Sire Records, which signed Muscadine and released their
debut album, The Ballad of Hope Nicholls, in 1998.
The group broke up in 1999, and Wilson spent the next several years in transit,
living for a while in a hippie community in California, then in Alpharetta,
Georgia, and in New York City for a spell before settling in Laurel Canyon.
Along the way, he learned the rudiments of audio engineering and assembled an
impressive collection of analog recording gear; he opened a recording studio and
began working as a producer and sideman with a wide variety of artists,
including Dawes, Erykah Badu, Phil Lesh, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Chris
Robinson, Will Oldham, and Shooter Jennings, and also joined several of those
acts on the road. During his downtime from studio sessions and road work, Wilson
worked on a solo album in which he handled all the instrumental chores himself;
the project, titled Frankie Ray, was initially distributed on CD-R by Wilson
himself before finally finding a home at Koch Records, who released it in 2007.
Wilson also began hosting regular jam sessions at his home, which became a nexus
for the revitalized Laurel Canyon musical community; Harvey Kubernik, who has
been writing about the Los Angeles music scene for decades, told the Los Angeles
Times Magazine in 2009, "Jonathan's at the epicenter of what's happening in
today's LC." For his second solo album, Wilson opted to use a full band,
recording at his own Five Star Studio, which had been relocated to a larger
space in L.A.'s Echo Park community; featuring appearances by Gary Louris, Chris
Robinson, Barry Goldberg, Gary Mallaber, and Andy Cabic and Otto Hauser of
Vetiver, Gentle Spirit was released by Bella Union Records in the fall of 2011.
It was followed by the Pity Trials & Tomorrow's Child EP in 2012. Wilson issued
Fanfare for Downtown Records in October of 2013.