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Article: JP Jones: Thugs and Lovers.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
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- Sing Out!
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- June 22, 2005
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Solo and self-recorded CDs always set off alarm bells. Too often the artist isn't a good enough instrumentalist to pull off interesting arrangements alone; they rely on those one or two licks they do well and put them in every song. Weak songwriting is laid even more bare without tasty arrangements to make them listenable. Fortunately, you won't find any of that here--JP's blues-based guitar work and craggy vocals shine in gritty reality with direct lyrics that often read like good poetry.
The sinister guitar on "Pink Flamingos" perfectly underscores the wry listing of useless things like a "black velvet Elvis," "salt shaker cows" ...