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Jere Mendelsohn : Top Of The World
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Twang that Rocks.Rock that Twangs. What would happen if Tom Petty, Dave Edmunds & Dwight Yoakam threw a party in Danny Gatton's backyard? Features Taras Prodaniuk (Dwight, Lucinda) & Mike Baird (Journey, Steely Dan) FULL-LENGTH CD COMING SPRING, 2008
Genre: Rock: Americana
Release Date: 2005
Top Of The World
Jere Mendelsohn
Record Label: Jere Mendelsohn
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1. Top Of The World 3:15 + MP3 $0.99
2. Rainey 3:56 + MP3 $0.99
3. Final Destination 3:44 + MP3 $0.99
4. One More Kiss 4:22 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

When Jere Mendelsohn sings about "Driving down the middle of this highway, caught between the mountains and the sea," we know it's a poetic metaphor, but it's also a road map of a life lived in real time, with all of the joys and sorrows, questions and contradictions left intact. Jere's music is filled with the kind of imagery and passion that people in any corner of America will instantly understand. It's music that feels like home.

Simply put, Jere Mendelsohn gets it. He's lived it, he's been there. He understands that "the nights roll in and go too fast, and the days rain down like broken glass." The good times can be spare; the crap can last a decade.

Yeah, Jere's like us, but with that one big difference that those of us who can't get "Chopsticks" on a keyboard or strum "Oh Susannah" on guitar can never quite get past: he expresses what we're feeling and what we want to say in the songs that he writes and sings, and in the notes he squeezes from a beat-up Telecaster. After all, you don't get to replace legendary Hellecaster Will Ray in one of his own bands unless you can bring it from note one.

Jere Mendelsohn's music is crafted from a lifetime of hard work and simple triumphs. He's "packed his bags with new world dreams" and too often found himself a family man playing "for one more dollar, one more empty room." An acknowledged, award-winning guitar slinger, Jere couldn't keep himself from the road, and along the way, climbed inside all of his influences: soul music, one-hit singles, Bakersfield twang, rockabilly, flat-out hillbilly music - anything played from the heart and worth cranking on the car radio. When he straps on a Tele and steps to the mic, he's going somewhere special, and taking us with him.

Jere's music has kept him true and focused, and in these new songs, he has stepped out - way out- from the workingman role of sideman, session man, and hired gun. Carved from the contradictions and convictions of his own life, Jere has found lyrical and musical expression that reaches back through all of his inspirations to create music that is at once familiar and fresh. Think Dwight meets Tom Petty in Danny Gatton's backyard.

In the purest definitions of the term, Jere's music is roots music. It asks for a piece of our hearts and in return, it gives us solace, and on a real good night, a reason to shake our asses. And best of all, it takes us down that solitary highway to our "final destination." Why not? It's just another name for the place we all want to be. Home.

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REVIEWS

clam Man
author: peter Holbrook
                            
I love this CD for a number of reasons. First, when it comes to rock, like just about everybody I'm a guitar fan. But I especially like intelligent guitar playing, you know, rock and roll but with finesse, sophistication. But also with that "feel" as Tom Waits put it. Mendelsohn appears to have his roots in rockabilly, perhaps, better put, twang, and Springsteen, but that said, he has his own sound, and it's pure. I've had the occasion to hear the gentleman play in person, and of course there is the true test. He's unreal. When he plays his licks, it's like there is a new dimension in the room, suddenly. The playing is fast and technically astute, but also soulful, real, like the mind, heart and soul met in conference and produced this sound. But I don't mean to wax poetic here. The fact is, the playing is extraordinary and the singing ain't bad either. I'm hoping the full CD comes out soon. The four songs here tease too much. Give us more, Jere Mendelsohn. The audience is listening!

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Unique sound. Familiar influences.
author: FAT BASTARD
                            
I absolutely loved it. I love the rockabilly / country twang.  I love how Jere's created a unique sound out of familiar influences.  There's something of a Tom Petty thing in there, a bit of John Hiatt on Rainey, some Buddy Holly, Warren Zevon and Elvis mixed in for a real comfortable feel, but it's all Jere.

I hate being limited to "favorites", but I'm torn between Rainey and One More Kiss. One More Kiss is winning out at the moment, but I'm fickle. 

Really solid songs, and great playing.  Jere's got a great voice for story telling, and that guitar just sounds better and better with every listen. I can't wait to take this on the road with me.  Always sounds better cranked up on the car stereo.

Can't wait to hear what's next from this guy.

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Tight, nice vocals-twangy but smooth, very good musicians
author: ATM
                            
I saw this band in Redmond OR and listened to their CD and really enjoyed the mix.  The vocals are nicely inter-twanged to give a different country sound.  The CD was excellent

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Refreshing
author: Brian Chance/Songwriter
                            
This EP/CD is refreshing and gives hope to anyone still trying to succeed in the biz. Jere's obviously been around and you can "feel" it in these skillfully written tunes and  fine quality, slick-lick-laden tracks. One can easily envision riding down some highway listening to "Top Of The World" over and over again. This cut, in particular, belongs on the radio! I'm guessing we'll be hearing more from Mendelsohn. Best "Twang" I've stumbled upon in ages. *****

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