[UPDATE: buy Trust Everyone Before They Break Your Heart right here]
OK, so I’m biased. Call me on it, see if I care.
My friends in the Portland band Jonah have been beaten so many times they’d laugh at another raised fist. They laugh as they get up again.
They’ve been doing it so long, seen the business, seen the madness, been so close and walked away with nothing each time. Nothing except a few immortal songs. Which of course is everything.
If you’re an artist, you know this story well.
Life is war. And if you’ve laid it down truly, your descendents get rich.
I believe Jonah has laid it down truly on this new record. But that is one man’s opinion.
They recently drove the operation down to Los Angeles to record. To face it again.
This time they walked away with Trust Everyone Before They Break Your Heart.
It is yet to be released (I’ll update this post with a few links when that happens), but I was given an mp3 early and the OK to post it here. I want you guys to hear this.
If you’re in the PDX area (or in Denmark for that matter) on March 9th, grab your tickets to the CD release show. I was there years ago when they played the first one at a nowhere coffee house in Bend, and I’ll be there Friday at the Doug Fir. You should too. Really.
Sweetheart, play this one at my funeral.
When they lower me into the ground
I want Jake Endicott’s kick drum breaking up the soil.
I want Matt Roger’s bass line pounding through the casket, mocking it.
I want Chris Hayes’ guitar mourning openly and without shame.
I want Henry Curl wailing into the sun.
Hit the player below to be one of the first to hear Joy Of Drowning… turn it up, wait for it, it is worth it.
Joy Of Drowning is Copyright © 2007 Jonah.
12 responses ↓
1 LW | 8 Feb 2007
Very nice.
2 Mantooth | 8 Feb 2007
Soaring…
Yours,
Mantooth
3 Zak | 8 Feb 2007
nice, tell matt we think so here
4 The Unfettered Monk | 9 Feb 2007
can you post the words so i can digest this more rationally cause so far i don’t get it. ok full disclosure i prefer talk radio to music
5 Robert Bruce | 9 Feb 2007
LW - Agreed. Thanks for coming around and listening….
6 Robert Bruce | 9 Feb 2007
Mantooth - Knew you’d like this. You’re an immortal taster of life.
7 Robert Bruce | 9 Feb 2007
Hey Zak, I think you and the old man need to get up here on the 9th. Like old times…
8 Robert Bruce | 9 Feb 2007
UM - I’ll see if I can dig them up, just got the mp3 for now. Of course, you could always buy the CD when I get around to linking it… ;)
9 ec | 9 Feb 2007
And I turned my back on the ocean, though my grandmother said it was wrong
I was drawn by endless motion, in the tides and blue commotion was a song
And I turned to see the shore behind me, and my limbs became sticks as I fell
I was swept out with the driftwood, with the birds and their communion in the swell
And when every word and everyone and everything I know is wrong
This song will guide me home
And when everyone and everything and everywhere I know is wrong
This song will guide me home
With the weight of the sun on my shoulders and the waves reaching up to become
part of an endless circle with me stuck in the middle of it all
10 The Unfettered Monk | 10 Feb 2007
i like the tune but i still don’t get the meaning… should i be trying. I’m not trying to be difficult i just haven’t gotten over my modernist need to have things make sense… can you help…
By the way loved your “Jesus wants you to be a millionaire”…
11 Nate | 14 Feb 2007
Wow, I like this, which suprises me because I have a very picky musical taste.
It’s unique.
12 Gar | 2 Aug 2007
simply…..masterful. Wow! Henry the Great lives.
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