Fwd: JPJ: holiday message

[maria callas <vocals7851@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is precisely why I feel that JPJ is the coolest! 
He wrote that for us, for his fans - he's thinking of
us at Christmas!  I wonder if he 'ran into' Robert
while he was in Nashville...


--- Steve Thomson <zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:06:41 -0500
> From: Steve Thomson <zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: JPJ: holiday message
> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Here's JPJ's latest message on his web site at: 
> http://www.johnpauljones.com/home.html. Nothing
> startling but nice to 
> see he's enjoying making music.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Steve.
> ************************
> So it?s Christmas, and it seems like only yesterday
> since I wrote the 
> last message! The main focus for the past year seems
> to have been 
> acoustic music. In March I produced an album for
> Uncle Earl, an old-time 
> stringband (www.uncleearl.net
> <http://www.uncleearl.net/>). I had the 
> best time ever with this record, the girls are great
> musicians and 
> brilliant fun to work with. We started
> pre-production at banjoist Béla 
> Fleck?s house, then went up to Seattle and Tacoma
> where the g?earls were 
> playing at Rockygrass. This is a big bluegrass
> festival in a hotel in 
> Tacoma and it was totally amazing. There were
> hundreds of musicians 
> everywhere, in the lobby, in the rooms, in the
> elevators, anywhere there 
> was a space, and concerts thru the days and
> evenings. After that there 
> were jam sessions in peoples rooms on every floor
> till the early hours. 
> Madness! I met many friends there and also got to
> play acoustic bass 
> guitar on stage with Mike Marshall and Hamilton di
> Hollanda (see pics in 
> the news section).
> 
> We then went back down to Nashville and moved to
> Karian studio in 
> Hendersonville, about 35 miles north of Nashville.
> It was then a few 
> weeks of acoustic heaven before mixing at Sound
> Emporium in Nashville 
> with our ace engineer Dave Sinko. Apart from getting
> a load of work down 
> I basically spent the whole month laughing, it
> doesn?t get much better! 
> The record will be out in the US March 13 on Rounder
> records.
> 
> I also attended Sore Fingers, a bluegrass camp in
> the UK as a mandolin 
> student! John Moore was the teacher, he taught Chris
> Thile mandolin and 
> Sean Watkins guitar, a chance I couldn?t pass up.
> Rayna (from Uncle 
> Earl) was also teaching old-time fiddle there, and
> we had many great 
> jams together. Now I?ve caught the fiddle bug? I?ve
> also been playing 
> with Robyn Hitchcock and sat in with Glenn Phillips
> (Toad the Wet 
> Sprocket, MAS) at the Troubador.
> 
> The autumn saw us in Lunel, and I ended up playing
> with Italian 
> bluegrass musicians, Venezuelan traditional players
> and Hamilton di 
> Hollanda?s Brasillian band, I guess I should stop
> having so much fun...
> 
> Ok, so the album is coming slowly, but it?s coming!
> 
> Wishing you all Happy Holidays
> John Paul
> December 2006
> 
> 
> 
> 


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