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 August 24, 2010 / Green Rock Badger Ball in Sept come on out and support the Biodiversity Conservation Association 25 Sept doors open at 630 at the Trading Post in Centennial $10 for Jalan Crossland Band & us - the full Shanghai'd ensemble August 19, 2010 Upland Breakdown...the Last Upland Breakdown...Saturday come on out and dance August 04, 2010 Billig Beer Fest this weekend in Centennial $2/beer; $3/water dig out your nickels, dimes & quarters July 12, 2010 / #7 on Euro Americana chart for July June 22, 2010 4th of July at Washington park...Center Stage...High Noon come on by June 22, 2010 / Cathi's Review from WFHB Shogren, J – “Bird Bones & Muscle” (JAHA!) A- A combination of oddities…this man, a professor of philosophy and past King of Sweden’s special professor on environmental science, Shogren lives half-time in Sweden, and the rest in Wyoming, where he put together this amazing rootsy band, sporting tunes from “Weird old America.” Cool stuff…he plays resonator, mandolin, and sings with people on accordion, yodeling and banjo…barbershop quartet stylings in a modern setting. Who would have guessed? Acoustic, eclectic, intelligent lyrics and fun. “Recalling everything from Dylan to Dr. John, Buck Owens to Tom Waits, Shogrun explains, ‘No veneer—just a coat of varnish to keep out the weather’.” Original. http://wfhbmusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/cathis-cds-6-15-10.html June 09, 2010 / country throwdown playing the Country Throwdown in the Bluebird Cafe tent...this sunday. cool June 01, 2010 Birds chirping 4am - must be stockholm May 21, 2010 Bird Bones & Muscle...flapping and fluttering along May 21, 2010 / New Blurb On his new album, “Bird Bones & Muscle”, J Shogren describes his music as “Pulp Americana” -- a singular conjuring of gut-bucket blues, deep-fried southern jive, Holy Ghost revival, polka night at the Grange, she-done-me-wrong hillbilly boogie and backwater bayou bump and swing. But instead of ghosting over sepia-toned museum pieces, Shogren’s music radiates a gritty immediacy, stick-to-your-ribs soul and genuine emotional depth that can only come from an encyclopedic understanding of the nooks and crannies of the what’s been recently called “weird old America”. “Roots music,” according to Shogren, “reflects reality -- a scruffy and gruff exterior sheltering the life and death interior that define us all.” Recalling everything from Dylan to Dr. John to Buck Owens to Leon Redbone to Tom Waits, Shogren shrugs and simply explains, “No veneer; just a coat of varnish to keep out the weather.” If there is one thing that can be said of Shogren’s music, it is his ability to conjure -- his ability to summon different times, different places, different waypoints in the American experience. Yet it’s often his lyrics that leave the most indelible impression. “I chose the title of the CD, “Bird Bones & Muscle” to illustrate a notion of fragility living next to strength -- how fragile and strong a person can be when lost in the wilderness within. How one can be both simultaneously and sequentially flying/falling, alive/comatose, breathing/holding your breath, usually at unpredictable/inconvenient intervals.” On “Bird Bones & Muscle” Shogren is aided and abetted by three members of the well-respected Jalan Crossland band, including Crossland (banjo/guitar), Andy Phreaner (drums/percussion) and Shaun Kelley (bass). Mandy Bohlender and Dan Tinker provided the harmony vocals and vocal arrangements. “This was a full-on collaborative effort,” Shogren reports. “Fourteen of 15 songs were arranged with the band. So the music has more cohesiveness across songs than early work, even though the song themselves differ so very widely in authentic American styles. Jalan, Andy and Shaun are such pros and nimble musicians who know their instruments so well that they adapted their playing to the different styles of each song.” It’s not hard to imagine Shogren, who splits his time between Centennial Wyoming and Stockholm Sweden, as the rugged back-country skier and the guy that can catch trout in a rain gutter (he can do both!), but what’s more impressive is Shogren’s day job. A professor of Applied Philosophy, Shogren has served as the King of Sweden’s special professor on environmental science and as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007. “It’s been a good job,” he winks. Shogren, to say the least, is not your typical, navel-gazing, journal-scribbling folk singer. With such a busy calendar, why does a guy like Shogren chose to delve into the dusty and often abandoned corners of American culture with his songs? “The need to write songs is an impossible passion of mine,” he says. “Even after a dozen books and hundreds of journal articles, songwriting is the only serious form of expression/writing that works for me. Like most songwriters I write songs because I have to. Songs arrive in and out of the subconscious and sometimes you hang out with them, sometimes you don’t. A good idea sticks, a great idea kicks.” March 31, 2010 Bird Bones & Muscle--songs are being posted here and on Facebook; cd versions being shipped today March 21, 2010 / cds in press Bird Bones & Muscle is now at the printers...hopefully out by mid April now February 15, 2010 Pulp Americana--after mixing down this latest cd...we decided the music just cant be called anything else February 09, 2010 / Bird Bones & Muscle Sessions Bird Bones & Muscle we are now into the final mixdown and soon mastering of Bird Bones & Muscle. once again all recording and engineering run by the master Dan Tinker at Thunderground Sound Studios in Laramie, WY. Mastering with be again with another master of his craft, Jim Wilson at AirShow in Boulder, CO. the new music covers a lot of territory and more aggressive than American Holly. most of full tilt Americana featuring the Jalan Crossland Band--Jalan, Shaun Kelley, and Andy Phreaner. what a trio--all music is arranged by the JCB, Dan and me. vocals--Mandy Bohlender, Dan and myself. Mandy is the voice of the Wyoming Mtns. yep. we arranged the vocals, except for the Barbershop Quartet...that is Dave Rickard. singing my part was nearly the hardest thing I had to do...disciplined singing. lots to learn cd release in March October 22, 2009 Uncle Dave Macon ... he started his professional music career at 51 years of age. Uncle J Shogren ... i like the ring to it October 01, 2009 News....well, don't get any bigger in a tiny package than a little Svenacana Mikko....28 Sept 09 September 01, 2009 / Stockholm Stockholm -- checking out all my favorite music stores this week. Twang has a 1930s Supro Collegian Resonator. nice. Hellstroms has original Beatles guitars and gear and trinkets. yep. and 4 cd/album stores on one street. long live the long player. going to see a roots americana festival of sorts tomorrow night at Mosebacke...one night, lots of bands. fun. Someone needs to compile Road Trip Music Outlets into a web site - all the great places to find independent music in all the towns around the globe. maybe it exists and i just have not found it yet. August 14, 2009 / Alibi Americana Festival Sunday at the Alibi...2nd Americana Festival starting at 2pm -- doors open at 12:30 2-3 me and the band 330 finders and youngberg 500 Harlen Wofford and the Hi-Beams 730 the Jalan Crossland Band July 16, 2009 / 31st at the BearTree J Shogren & the Shanghai'd Original music Friday 31st at the Beartree in Centennial...come on out. Dan Tinker and Mandy B are the Shanghai'd this go-around. May 07, 2009 / Big Horn Mountain Stage AUGUST 1st...BIG HORN MOUNTAIN STAGE show. http://www.bighornmountainstage.com/5.html - August 1 • Doors open @ 7pm • All Ages • $10 • Standing Room Only - J. Shogren with special guest April 03, 2009 / Recent press “Brilliant storyteller from Wyoming. Hard Boiled, sometimes dark humorous stories delivered with a voice that clearly have lived through them.” - Lennart Persson, Rootsy “There are two other times I can remember when a singer’s voice prompted in me the same reaction I had when I first heard J Shogren’s. Those were when I first heard Randy Newman and Leon Redbone. I had to keep looking at the album cover to assure myself that the singer was indeed white. Shogren’s voice sounds like one of those great bluesmen from ninety years ago.” - Oliver di Place, Feb 2009 February 07, 2009 / Scharinska...tack sa mycket Thanks to everyone who came out for J-night at Scharinska on Tuesday. you all were so fun to get to play for...and I will work on the Thom-falsetto. I shouldda brought a camera! see you next time J January 29, 2009 / Webbusking Greetings We have been on cdbaby for about 4 months now. sold a few cds--fewer than I expected, but then again I was not sure what to expect, and we really have not toured that much. fair enough. and then right in the middle of it all, Radiohead releases their new cd In Rainbows for "whatever you want to pay"--and of the 1.2 million who downloaded their cd, some 770,000 paid $0, zilch. made me think...if 770,000 folks think radiohead's music was worth listening to, but not paying for...then what does that really mean for the rest of us. granted another 440,000 people were willing to pay for the Radiohead cd...at an average of $8. Whomever thought up the idea that you could capture the music from the people and sell it back to the people at a steep price and make a lot of money--well, it was a good idea at the time. but this natural monopoly is now broken, just like the trustbusters and the railroads. it is a new day for the old ways, is my best guess. so what am I getting at. I would rather have you all listen than pay. so I am dropping my price down to $5 ($4 goes to CDbaby, and $1 to me). that seems like a fair price. Or if you want a copy, contact me directly. Actually you do--it was just remastered at Air Show Mastering by Jim Wilson (he did Richard Thompson's last two cds). Oh man...it was like cracking open an egg of sound--the new sound is absolutely amazing. so if you bought a cd earlier, and would like a remastered disc, send me an email. jahajunti@hotmail.com I hope the new year is off to great start. it is for me! a new career as J Shogren the Webbusker! playing for tips! Tip of the day: listen now, pay later, if you want to. whoo hooo J January 14, 2009 We are #15 on Euroamericana charts this month, and we are the CD of the month at americanaOK in the UK December 31, 1969 / Morning Music Source: www.wyomingpublicrad...
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Mandy, Dan, Bill and I were 'live' in the studio on Morning Music with Grady today at about 9:20 this morning. you can listen again on the Morning Music web site.