The Bones of J.R. Jones releases “The Flood”



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(New York, NY) — July 18, 2023, New York-based artist jr jones bones Released second track from new album, ‘The Flood’ slow lightning It will be released on October 13th via Tone Tree Music. The Bones of J.R. Jones have also announced a US and European tour, with an album launch show at their local Mercury Lounge on October 13, 2023.

Jonathan Linaberry, better known by the stage name The Bones of J.R. Jones, said: “This song was born on a late summer night, lying in bed with the window open. Woke up to the laughter of a coyote as it approached its prey in the next field. The moment was so haunting and overwhelming.” There’s something about it that was unexpected and incredibly soothing, and that’s what I was trying to express on The Flood.”

‘The Flood’ follows the release of the album’s debut single “Heaven please help me” which It has already been streamed over 100,000 times. You can hear this track later in this article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJ EdVUbVwc

As the title suggests, it contains 12 tracks. slow lightning His raw and visceral pulsates with an understated current that runs through his film brand of roots noir. The song wrestles with doubt and desire in the face of nature and destiny, and the production of frequent collaborator Sei Matsuyama is eerily hypnotic, coupled with haunting synths, vintage drum machines and ghostly guitars. It matches the technical stuff.

“I felt very lost when I was writing these songs,” confesses Linaberry. “It was a moment of deep crisis and anxiety, but I knew the only solution was to push myself to work every day.”

Where the latest release of The Bones of J.R. Jones will be released in 2021 celebrationinspired by trips to the vast deserts of the American Southwest, but the songs that began to take shape this time in upstate New York were even harder to pinpoint, appearing and disappearing spontaneously. was.

“So the concept of ‘slow lightning’ was born,” Linaberry explains. “It’s about a power you have no control over, a power greater than you, and the power to follow its own path no matter how you shape it or direct it. That’s the feel of this record, that I had to think about how to accept the

The Bones of J.R. Jones is a New York-based songwriter, storyteller, and visual artist who describes himself as “a one-man who can keep an audience occupied without the need for all the cacophony of a musician-filled stage.” band”(noisy). His 2021 EP, A Celebration, has been praised by American Songwriter, Under The Radar, and Atwood Magazine.he called it “an intimate and visceral outpouring of vulnerability, reflection, connection and surprise.”

Upcoming tour dates:

9/2 – Fairmont, WV – Palatine Park

9/7 – Buffalo, NY – 9th Ward

9/8 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Club Café

9/9 – Cleveland, Ohio – Grog Shop

9/10 – Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ark

9/12 – Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi

9/13 – Chicago, IL – Shuvas

9/14 – Columbus, Ohio – Basement

9/15 – Syracuse, NY – Funk and Waffles

10/12 – Washington DC – DC9

10/13 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

10/14 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios

10/16 – Richmond, Virginia – Camel

10/17 – Charlottesville, Virginia – Southern Cafe & Music Hall

10/18 – Raleigh, NC – Pour House Music Hall & Record Shop

10/19 – Charlotte, NC – Evening Mews

10/20 – Decatur, GA – Eddie’s Attic

10/21 – Nashville, Tennessee – Basement

11/8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso

11/9 – Luxembourg, LUX – good waves

11/10 – Paris, France – No.Pi

11/11 – London, England – O’Meara

11/14 – Cologne, Delaware – What

11/15 – Hamburg, Delaware – Wicked and Dangerous

11/16 – Berlin, Delaware – Restaurant Berghain

11/17 – Leipzig, DE – Naumans

11/18 – Frankfurt, Delaware – Brotfabrik