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After a 17 year absence, Madd Mike Colvin is BACK on the air with his brother Stephen on Z93 Poughkeepsie (z93hv.com and Z93 on your iHeart Radio App).  You'll find all the show's highlights here as well as a wealth of material from Madd Mike's vaults.  Please feel free to share!

There’s a lot going on under the hood of Matt Jones’ unlabored Americana songcraft and his baritone delivery. Adopted from Brazil and raised primarily in Houston, Texas by American parents, Jones’ perspective as a Latino-American is ever-present in his writing, as is the looming specter of Jones’ lifelong struggles with depression and anxiety. Throughout Demons, Jones explores both the nuances of his multicultural identity and his mental health issues, while stylistically maintaining a balance between haunted old-world source material and a contemporary sense of selfhood and style play. The end result is an organic, complex, and unpredictable sound all his own.   

The guiding light of Tom Waits hovers over Demons as it does over essentially all progressive roots music of the last 35 years. Jones, however, approaches his subjects with a gravity and formality more in line with the raw narrative finesse of Nick Cave than the carnivalesque surrealism of Waits. Magical realism and mystical imagery pervade these stories of outlaws and obsessions. Dramatic personae and unfiltered confession take turns at the microphone until finally they are indistinguishable. Demons conjures a timeless, insular world of dark folk myth without conceding to the stylized and the retro. Sonically, Jones takes influences ranging from Langhorne Slim and Shovels & Rope to Beirut & The Decemberists, wringing out their most affecting qualities and distilling them into a unique, powerful blend of expressive folk-rock.

I’ve been writing and producing music since the early 1970's.  Fist as a young viola player, then a cellist, the round musician disobeyed his mothers and snuck off to plays guitar and drums. In fact, any instrument in the vicinity.  After jobs doing graphic design, I began a career in full service advertising, with clients ranging from food, to travel but with a specialty in the music business with offices on Long Island and New York City.  I write, produce and place spots for radio and TV.  

Erin Hobson and I met in 2008, forming The Compact a busy and highly respected local band in the Hudson Valley, a region of New York that encompasses the vibrant music scenes from Woodstock to the surrounding areas.  The Hudson Valley is Hobson's home, but only a short train ride from my hometown, Brooklyn and New York City— So the flavor of each album and single is decidedly urban and self-aware. It’s a deep study in sophisticated grooves, funky counterpoint, intertwining guitars and adventurous songwriting.

The Compact released three albums and several singles from the indy record company and label Choking Chicken Music. 

These contain a collection of playful, spontaneous, and live-feeling originals (plus three covers) that draw their character from the unlikely partnership. The Compact’s signature is intuitive musical interplay and the striking personality contrasts between long-time collaborators Hobson on guitar and vocals, and multi-instrumentalist Ross whose primary instrument is the bass.

With pop hooks abound, the record also features spoken-word in three pieces, street poetry and surreal stream of consciousness narratives over deep grooves, drawn from multiple chapters of the American songbook. It’s a work of risk-taking, unfettered creativity that fuses pop values with earthy rhythms.

The record-opening single “It’s a Wash” evokes the push-pull groove of “Dancing In the Streets” as it obliquely relates the experience of living through Hurricane Irene. The duet’s voices harmonize, then split into call-and-response dialog (a recurrent theme on this record) before uniting for the hooky chorus. “Dirty Minds” is a relaxed and spacious R&B style riff-rocker with driving bass lines and honky-tonk piano comping.

While Steven W. Ross has always been integral to the Compact’s writing, arranging, and performances, on 1@AX (one at a time) he steps to the mic in front of the group for the first time. Bringing a smart, thorny personality to songs like “Rest My Soul” and “The 24th Of May,” and serving throughout as gritty foil and friction for Hobson—bristling against her smooth tunefulness.

“Each collection encompasses colors, feels, and textures giving each track its own atmosphere. "We drew from grooves that evolved in jam sections at our live shows,” says Ross, who was mentored by legendary producer Paul Rothchild (the Doors, Janis Joplin), and in addition to producing 1@AX contributes guitars, keyboards, drums, and percussion. “Other songs were created from the ground up in the studio. We wanted this album to capture the freedom we feel when we gig.” Hobson adds, “One at a Time’s process has been liberating for us both, and kind of a joy.”

This material herein is written by Steven W Ross (many with Erin Hobson).  All songs © Steven W Ross, Erin Hobson and / or including and / or including © Choking Chicken Music, LLC.  All songs (music and lyrics property of, and protected by, US Copyright and all other applicable laws.  Reproduction, distribution or broadcast without permission is strictly forbidden. 

All music is recorded and mixed at The Electric Blanket Studio, Quasi Productions by Steven W Ross. Some recordings are rough mixes.  Mastering of music released by Alan Douches at WWSM, New Windsor, NY. 

This text was collected from reviews written by John Barry  (music editor, PoughKeepsie Journal), John Burdick ( Almanac), Peter Aaron (Chronogram).

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