Super !
author: Elena Smith
This is a CD I'll listen to often. Lyrics that I understand and can relate to. Jim Jones has great, strong voice. I LIKE it!!!!
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Jim Jones loves to tell modern-day stories about the "cowboy way."
author: Emily Drabanski, New Mexico Magazine 5/2007
Jim Jones of Corrales, NM loves to tell modern-day stories about the "cowboy way" through his songs. His strong, crisp vocals easily carry these straightforward lyrics over his steady melodies on this CD. Jones also weaves a delicate tapestry of sound by playing multiple instruments. Yep, that's him on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, harmonica, tin whistle, saloon piano, bass, Indian drum and rattles. He's also wrangled in a number of other talented vocalists for harmonies and musicians to play dobro, fiddle, upright bass and accordion. In addition to his own sincere and poignant ballads and his spirited and catchy uptempo tunes, Jones has done a great job of interpreting several songs by other composers. His wife and daughter provide warm harmonies on Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" and his vocals on Allan Chapman's "These Cowboy Boots" fit the lyrics like well-worn leather.
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I'm nostalgic after all this and I'm going to watch an old John Wayne film.
author: Bernard Boyat, Le Cri du Coyote, France
Some say that nothing lasts forever, my good sir, even the Old West. It is therefore reassuring to find that there are still singers who haven't forgotten. Jim Jones (no, not the organizer of the mass suicide in Guyana), born in Texas and New Mexican by adoption, is one of the latter in a style that's a little folk/bluegrass mixed with Western ballads. There are certainly ballads here, of which "Someday Soon" is the most successful. You'll also find two light little hillbilly bops, "She Can't Do That" and "Diggin' Billy," the last one half-spoken, half-sung, and two selections which would make good background music for a Western film: "Skeleton Canyon" and "Whiskeytown," which has a Celtic flavor. I'm nostalgic after this and I'm going to go watch an old John Wayne film.
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A well-rounded ode to cowboys and their lifestyles
author: Western Horseman/Kyle Partain
The West: Then...Now...Next! is just that as Jim Jones and special guests team to offer Western stories of the past and present with a nod to the future. Mixing song and cowboy poetry, Jones' latest offering is a well-rounded ode to cowboys and the legends that often suround their lifestyle. Kyle Partain, Western Horseman Magazine
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