Jonivan Jones

"South Pacific travels, Twang and Psychedelic sounds learned in South Texas mixed with early years of old Folk, Blues and Cowboy campfire songs in Arkansas and crashed into a few locations. With a style that is maybe best characterized by its fusion of roots and a deep reverence to Delta & Folk Blues, there are influences from Traditional Folk, and Early Western, making live performances a stirred-up framework of all of this, creating a unique but familiar sound. Dropped C# Tunings, homemade foot drums, stomp boxes and an old 1974 Fender Deluxe Reverb amp became some common used tools for a few years while traveling and performing live. Performing live (sometimes as a 3 piece and 2 piece) under the name “animalsound” or “animal+sound” supplied some lessons that shaped an approach to being a songwriter. The songwriting and random live shows amassed a catalog of unique music that is often a nod to life’s pact with the tribulatory and exploratorive processes. ~‘Before there were genre labels—many of which were artificially created by the music industry for cynical reasons—there was a fertile ground of discovery and experimentation and cross-pollination of European and African and indigenous music. Jones’ feels current and sophisticated in its blend of sounds, but it also in some ways represents a return to that organic, authentic cultural exchange from which American roots music originated.’ Last paragraph Excerpt from Carol Roth's review of “Ragged Jangly”