Coming Soon!
Jonathan’s upcoming EP, Homage (a nod to Stephen Stills), is scheduled for release later this year. The first 2 singles, Second Hand Smoke and Suite Judy Blue Eyes, are available NOW for streaming at your favorite streamer!
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Second Hand Smoke
Best Kept Secret: 9 rockin’, bluesy, swingin’, heartfelt songs
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Featured Track from upcoming EP Homage
Second Hand Smoke
I BELIEVE IN SELF DETERMINATION
AND I CAN READ THE WRITING ON THE WALL
DESCARTES AND HOBBES AND KANT
CONTEMPLATE DETENTE ABIDING FOR US ALL
AND I SEE NO REASON
FOR TO BE BREATHIN’ SECOND HAND SMOKE
THERE ARE A FEW POWERFUL NATIONS
DOMINATING THE WATER AIR AND LAND
HAND OVER THE HEART
HALF A WORLD APART FOR WHICH THEY STAND
AND THE OTHERS SEE NO REASON
FOR TO BE BREATHIN’ SECOND HAND SMOKE
WITH AN ASSASSIN’S PATIENCE NATURE GAZES
WATCHING US DESTROY WHAT WE COMMAND
HARBINGERS IN THE HAZE
LIKE A DARK CRY HEARD ACROSS THE LAND
STILL WE FAIL TO HEED THE REASON
AND CEASE TO BE BREATHIN’ SECOND HAND SMOKE
Featured Track from Best Kept Secret
Three Names
The people seem to like me in the juke joints and bars
Folks even recognize me as Jonny Guitar
But the Lone Star state is havin’ none of my fame
This unrequited love’s enough to drive me insane
I got an old Tele and a ’55 tweed
I bend the wires, set sonic fires until my fingers bleed
Opry halls I’ve played them all, Denver to Maine
And why Texas won’t love me I can’t explain
Kenny Wayne Shepard, Jerry Jeff Walker
Ray Wylie Hubbard singin’ ‘bout them creepy crawlers
I see now it’s as plain as the nose on my face
You can’t gig in Texas ‘less you’ve got three names
You can’t gig in Texas ‘less you’ve got three names
The White Horse, the Broken Spoke, The Continental Club
Are all up in Austin and all served me the snub
Playin’ the Moody, the Marc I can’t make the claim
I keep bangin’ on the door but the answer’s the same
Billy Joe Shaver, Tony Joe White
When they were alive, you could see ‘em every night
Yet here I stand, alive and ready to play
But you can’t gig in Texas ‘less you’ve got three names
You can’t gig in Texas ‘less you’ve got three names
I went to the Gruehne and to Floore’s Country Store
I told them my name and they showed me the door
I said: I got the goods and I came to ply
They said you can’t gig in Texas ‘lesss you’ve got three names
You can’t gig in Texas ‘less you’ve got three names
repeat 1st chorus
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