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Sultry, floating, blue notes of sounds that fall galaxies
away from any general genre description is the closest
I can come to describing Cotton Jones,
made up of the duo Michael Nau and Whitney
McGraw.
Nau originated Cotton Jones during the hiatus of Page
France, pulling in McGraw, also with the outfit, to
round out the smoky mood of their harmonic vocals.
The song title “By Morning Light” from
the duo’s debut full-length, Paranoid
Cocoon (Suicide Squeeze), does capture
the mood and grace of the track, moving slowly and gaining
light until the last note. “Up A Tree” (With
This Heart I Have) saunters with a shade of The Ravonettes
and a toke of 60s folk, and “Blood Red Sentimental
Blues” would complement a homegrown mix tape featuring
the Cowboy Junkie’s version of “Sweet Jane.”
As a side note, I couldn’t help but include some
scientific trivia Cotton Jones includes in their bio,
which is presented as a link to the heart of their music.
It says that “people who live at high altitudes
must develop physiological adaptations to the decreased
amount of oxygen available in order to maintain homeostasis.
The list of adaptations includes a heart that is proportionally
larger than that of a person living at sea-level.”
Considering Nau and McGraw are coming to our city to
play Monolith, I thought it only fitting to connect
the dots, since they’ll be playing, for the most
part, to a majority of locals with big hearts.
www.myspace.com/thecottonjonesbasketride
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