JD McPherson
NewMusicforOldFolks says …
JD McPherson is simultaniously retro and fresh; it's a rare combination. Sort of Buddy Holly meets Jack Black. How is that possible, you ask? Listen to "Shy Boy" from his new album Let the Good Times Roll. McPherson burst onto the scene in 2012 with the single "North Side Gal" from his debut Signs & Signifiers. It was a great beginning, but the new album is more consistent top to bottom. It's a great listen.
Artist's Info
Website: jdmcpherson.com
See them live: Tour dates
Record company: Rounder Records
Genre: Roots
If you like this, look into: Lyle Lovett, Marc Broussard, Eric Lindell
Bio (From the artist's website)
As a visual artist, Broken Arrow, Okla., native JD McPherson is well versed in the process of working within clearly defined formal parameters, and he employs a similarly rigorous discipline with his music. On Signs & Signifiers (Rounder, April 17), McPherson’s seductively kickass debut album, produced by JD’s musical partner, Jimmy Sutton, this renaissance man/hepcat seamlessly meshes the old and the new, the primal and the sophisticated, on a work that will satisfy traditional American rock ’n’ roll and R&B purists while also exhibiting McPherson’s rarefied gift for mixing and matching disparate stylistic shapes and textures. (more)
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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL (2015): You could mistake JD McPherson for a revivalist, given how few other contemporary artists are likely to assert, as he boldly does, that "Keep a Knockin" by Little Richard is the best record ever made. However, in a very real sense, McPherson is much more a pioneer than roots resuscitator. On his sophomore album Let the Good Times Roll, JD is knocking at the door of something that has arguably not previously been accomplished — a spirited, almost spiritual, and very artistic hybrid that brings the forgotten lessons from the earliest days of rock 'n roll into a future that has room for the modernities of studio technique and 21st-century singer/songwriter idiosyncrasies. McPherson and the wonderful Jimmy Sutton pay tribute to their musical heroes, and they do it in the right way by making their own music that carries that tradition forward. With the addition of new team players, including the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, JD McPherson is back with more timeless roots rock 'n roll. Just as "North Side Gal" proved how vital and irresistible American music can be, JD McPherson has now given us a new record that helps us continue to Let the Good Times Roll.
OTHERS
Signs & Signifiers (2012)
