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Here, I’m going to paraphrase J. D. Salinger’s 1961 inscription for “Franny And Zooey”. In the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one,
urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge….(you, dear listener and valued friend, to accept this awfully rough, seeds, twigs, warts and all musical recording into your collection.)
I think it’s pretty good though. It sounds just like me when I’m not trying to sound cooler than I really do. It sounds like the fun way music can sound when it’s played among friends. Comforting like soup and hot cornbread…and maybe a little bourbon and branch water.
So, I hope you like this humble offering. As Arvin would say, it’ll keep on spinning in the right direction and, Lord, that’s a comfort when everything goes wrong.
Boogie forth.
Jefferson
The Word on the Street and on the Air
“Jefferson Ross is my favorite Southern songwriter.
Here’s a man who knows this part of his country like William Faulkner knew his imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, like Flannery O’Conner knew the land around Andalusia, like Eudora Welty knew the South by looking at her garden and her fellow men.
Jefferson Ross is a modern day mystic, a folk artist, a man driven by the power of the written word, the beauty of melody, the poetry of images and the ever ambient allure of the South.
Listen to him…” Thomm Jutz, Nashville, TN
“Jefferson Ross music is flannel-warm in the chilled autumn. It is a calling to decency, to chuckling open-mindedness. It is an invitation to art and sound, to words and ideas. It is the world’s greatest dinner party, set somewhere in the dusk of soft Georgia summer, with bootleg preacher Will D. Campbell, impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, and prophet of kindness Martin Luther King, Jr. in smiling attendance. It’s a little bluegrass-y, but it’s not bluegrass. I just like it, that’s all.” – Peter Cooper, Nashville, TN
“Jefferson Ross stands in a small elite circle of songwriters who can take you in and make you a part of the song. Some of his subjects are simple truths, some complex, but all are amazingly insightful and entertaining.“- Ernie Hopseker, Ocean Beach Radio
4 1/2 stars”Lyrically, Jefferson Ross is a genius but ultimately I think the best quality of his records is that as a singer-songwriter he never forgets about the importance of a decent tune and there are plenty of them on this quality release.“-Duncan Warwick, Country Music People Magazine, UK