Artist Lounge: Jet Black Berries
Moggers' favorites by Jet Black Berries
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I have had a lot on my mind recently mostly the everyday stuff of life, work, bills, meeting up with people, still looking for a full time job and what not... however I have also been haunted by something that's a little strange and out of the ordinary.. and that's the idea of being on the road... not literally on the road, more like on a path... I think it started a couple of weeks back I heard somewhere on NPR, either on This American Life or To The Best of Our Knowled... MORE
My review of the Jet Black Berries spacewestern 'Sundown on Venus' went live today over at Space Westerns today... check it out.
It's late, I can't sleep, too hot, I have to work in only a few hours, and this is what is running though my head..... I'm a stranger on this highway, I'm a Stranger on this road tonight..... It's little known track and I have 3 different bands playing it. Sure each of the bands feature Drummer Roy Stein who wrote the tune, and some versions are better than others, but still it's running through my head. Why is it that this tune, of all the ones that I have at my finger ti... MORE
I just went back and read what I wrote about this album almost 6 months ago, back when I was new to Mog, when I didn't have people who trusted me, when I was just another voice in the wilderness of this mist covered woodlands. It's a cowpunk album, owing more to Dylan and Parsons than to Nashville, although Nashville might do well to discover these tunes, send out some of their edgier acts on the fringe to cover them. A favorite album of mine, and I wish of more people... ... MORE

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