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"Walking Through Ithonside" won
Best Original Song on the Spiral Awards 2010. "After 30
years with Oysterband Jones releases his first solo album. Very
different to the sound of the Oysterband and very very good. Jones
draws a talented bunch of friends together to back him on the 7
trad tracks and 5 new songs. Rising Road feels as fresh as a Spring
morning and marks a whole new direction for Jones. Too many highlights
to list, but it's worth the price alone for his spine tingling rendition
of Polly on the Shore alone". And John Jones comes 2nd to
Seth Lakeman in the category "Male Singer". (www.spiralearth.co.uk)
"..the healing qualities of landscape
and the sense of home , space and spiritual identity at the heart
of the album is perfectly encapsulated by the expansive , epic 'Walking
Through Ithonside '. Colin Irwin FRoots
* * * * Songlines:
" JJ carries some great traditional material here with his
big , heroic way of voicing a song _--- Newlyn Town , Polly on the
Shore and a beautiful Rocks of Bawn are all big hitters ".
Tim Cummings
Rock and Reel * * * * .....a magnificiently
dark and brooding work.....one of the folk albums of the year. Jeremy
Searle
Album of the Week , Celtic Music Radio
"...one of the most beautiful and haunting
albums I have heard in a long time.." Chris Baxter, Radio Leicester
Eamon Friel , BBC Northern Ireland picks "Rocks of Bawn"
as one of his tracks of the year
"... one of the most beautiful and haunting
albums I have heard in a long time." Chris Jackson, Radio
Leicester
"... Ein reifer Künstler, der auf seiner
ersten Solo-CD die Früchte einer langjährigen Karriere
präsentiert". W. R., folkmagazin, Germany
"... Ein Folk-Highlight der Extraklasse
mit viel Identität, noch mehr Gefühl und ohne Klischees
- Weltklasse." Metal-Inside.de
"... Mit Rising road ist John Jones ein
wunderbares und entspanntes Stück Musik gelungen, das einfach
dazu einlädt seine Seele baumeln zu lassen. Hier wirkt nichts
gehetzt oder überstürzt. ... Wer gerne Menschen zuhört
die mit sich selbst im Reinen sind und schöne Geschichten zu
erzählen wissen, liegt hier genau richtig. Sehr empfehlenswert!"
Musikansich.de
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