From the album "You've Been That Friend to Me," by Jon Hogan and Maria Moss, produced by John Paul Schwartz and recorded on half-inch tape by James Stevens at EAR Studio in Austin.
Jon Hogan, arrangements, rhythm guitar and vocals
Maria Moss, picking guitar and vocals
Dr. Sick, fiddle
Eric Gerber, mandolin
Louis J. Meyers, banjo
Wild Man Dave, bass
Ned Mefford, bass

Album: Friend To Me (2/28/2016 10:28:45 PM)

Last Kind Words (recorded by Geeshie Wiley and L.V. Thomas, 1930)

Jon Hogan, rhythm guitar and vocals
Maria Moss, picking guitar and vocals
Kay Young, bass
Kirk Suddreath, drums
Recorded, mixed and produced by Rock Romano at Redshack Studios, Houston. Texas. Mastered by Donn DeVore, Beaverton, OR.

Pancho And Lefty (Townes Van Zandt, arr. Maria Moss)

Original songs with old souls. The Carter Family canon. Appalachian mystery rants, vintage country, blues and soul and midcentury swing. Part scorch-folk, part 1930s dancehall, part neon desert twang. It’s uplifting and dark, historical, primitive, modern, joyous and haunting.

Jon Hogan and Maria Moss have toured Texas and the Western U.S. full-time since 2010, and until March of 2020 played more than 250 shows, house concerts and teaching events annually. Throughout 2020-2022 they streamed from Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.

Their shows range from high-energy full-band dance extravaganzas, with the Old Weird America band on bass and drums, to duo and trio performances with upright bass. 

In 2018 Jon and Maria were part of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship that took them into senior-living communities to teach songwriting workshops with elders. They’ve worked with nonprofit foundations to bring music performance, music history, and the craft of songwriting to classrooms and communities. They also give talks on the enduring power and mystery of the music of the Carter Family and other old-time artists.

As a duo and with the Old Weird America they play a regular circuit of gigs in the Texas Hill Country and the Big Bend in the fall, winter and spring, and tour New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in the summer.

Jon Hogan is an official posthumous co-writer with Blaze Foley, who died largely unheralded in 1989, but has been covered by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, John Prine, and Lyle Lovett, and about whom a feature film, “Blaze,” by Ethan Hawke, was released in 2018. Jon Hogan was commissioned by Foley’s sister to complete three songs from lyrics found in Foley’s handwriting after his death. (“Can’t Always Cry,” “Safe in the Arms of Love” and “Every Now and Then,” BMI.)

The Old Weird America band takes its name from Greil Marcus’ classic work of American music criticism, an inspirational and indispensable codex to a music that nonetheless remains a mystery, and forever shall.
Hoganandmoss.com
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Last Kind Words (recorded by Geeshie Wiley and L.V. Thomas, 1930)

Hogan & Moss and the Old Weird America

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