Jon Ashley's new release, Doghouse Flowers, is now available at Ear-X-Tacy and for download at Digstation.com. Additional download sites will be available shortly.
Check out Jeffery Lee Puckett's review in the Courier-Journal:
Album Review Jon Ashley, "Doghouse Flowers"
By Jeffrey Lee Puckett • jpuckett@courier-journal.com • April 23, 2010
Jon Ashley is less a country music traditionalist than a classicist, a songwriter steeped in the genre’s most time-honored themes but committed to a point of view that’s intrinsically modern, reflecting his age (28) and mindset (an OCD, post-punk, addictive personality).
Ashley combines his uneasy aesthetic with country music of the 1960s and ‘70s, when the old school was being crowded by stoner outlaws, creating vivid scenes of Ritalin kids on barstools drowning in well bourbon. “And the cut marks on your calves, well you act like they’re all you have/The welcome looks and neon lights won’t take them back,” he sings on “Neon Lights,” bridging the world he lives in and the one he listens to.
“Doghouse Flowers” is filled with similar stories, sung in Ashley’s booming nicotine twang and performed by a knowing, empathetic band. It could be a couple of songs shorter — the weaker tracks tend to drag — but the stories that hit hardest linger for days.
Stream: n/a
Long nights: 7
Morning afters: 9
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