JD MALONE & THE EXPERTS
''AVALON''
JULY 12 2011
78:43
1 Silver From 03:33
2 Still Love You 03:35
3 Leave Us Alone 04:25
4 She Likes 03:52
5 Sweet Evil Things 05:51
6 Just Like New 05:29
7 Avalon 04:41
8 Ballad Of Mr. Barbo 05:01
9 Black Yodel 04:53
10 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty) 03:21
11 Do What You Can Do 02:56
12 Emerald Lake 04:49
13 Emmit Meets A Demon 07:12
14 Just Like New (Radio Edit) 04:40
15 Silver From (Live) 03:11
16 I Think It Was A Monday 03:16
17 She Likes (Live) 04:17
18 I Should Have Known It (Mike Campbell / Tom Petty) 03:29
Tracks By JD Malone, Except 10, 18
Avery Coffee/Guitar (Electric)
Tommy Geddes/Drums
Jayda Hampton/Vocals (Background)
Tom Hampton/Dobro, Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (Baritone), Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Pedal Steel Guitar, Vocals (Background)
J.D. Malone/Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jim Miades/Bass
REVIEW
by William Ruhlmann (AllMusic)
Avalon is the debut full-length album by JD Malone & the Experts, but it doesn't sound like a first-time effort. Malone, a Vermont-born, Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter with a nasal tenor that lies somewhere between John Mellencamp and Steve Earle, is an accomplished stylist, and the Experts, his four-piece backup band (multi-instrumentalist Tom Hampton, electric guitarist Avery Coffee, bassist Jim Miades, and drummer Tommy Geddes), provide cohesive folk-rock arrangements with the occasional hint of country (particularly when Hampton breaks out his pedal steel), also suggesting the likes of Mellencamp and Earle. It would be easy to figure that Avalon came half-a-dozen records into Malone's career, and, as it turns out, it actually does when you include this journeyman's album with his old band Steamroller Picnic; his two duo albums with Gerry McWilliams; a solo EP, and an earlier EP with the Experts. No wonder he sounds so assured. But if the sound harks back to the heartland rock of the late '70s and ‘80s, it does so more in terms of form than substance. All of the artists with which he might be compared musically (and you can throw in Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen) write substantive, often socially conscious lyrics. Malone writes love songs, often with a sensibility that suggests a man trying to hold his relationship together across distances, as if, for example, he were an itinerant musician. He occasionally waxes poetic, but his inclusion of a cover of "Fortunate Son," a socially conscious song by another major influence, Creedence Clearwater Revival, points up the difference. Maybe that means that this is not great music, but it certainly is good, and it is likely to be enjoyed by music fans who have been starved for this kind of mainstream rock since its heyday. (The digital release of Avalon contains its main 13 tracks. The physical release adds as a bonus track a "radio edit" of one of the songs, plus a 37-minute DVD of an album rehearsal session, and four audio tracks of songs from the DVD, among them a cover of Petty's "I Should Have Known It.")
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''AVALON''
JULY 12 2011
78:43
1 Silver From 03:33
2 Still Love You 03:35
3 Leave Us Alone 04:25
4 She Likes 03:52
5 Sweet Evil Things 05:51
6 Just Like New 05:29
7 Avalon 04:41
8 Ballad Of Mr. Barbo 05:01
9 Black Yodel 04:53
10 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty) 03:21
11 Do What You Can Do 02:56
12 Emerald Lake 04:49
13 Emmit Meets A Demon 07:12
14 Just Like New (Radio Edit) 04:40
15 Silver From (Live) 03:11
16 I Think It Was A Monday 03:16
17 She Likes (Live) 04:17
18 I Should Have Known It (Mike Campbell / Tom Petty) 03:29
Tracks By JD Malone, Except 10, 18
Avery Coffee/Guitar (Electric)
Tommy Geddes/Drums
Jayda Hampton/Vocals (Background)
Tom Hampton/Dobro, Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (Baritone), Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Pedal Steel Guitar, Vocals (Background)
J.D. Malone/Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jim Miades/Bass
REVIEW
by William Ruhlmann (AllMusic)
Avalon is the debut full-length album by JD Malone & the Experts, but it doesn't sound like a first-time effort. Malone, a Vermont-born, Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter with a nasal tenor that lies somewhere between John Mellencamp and Steve Earle, is an accomplished stylist, and the Experts, his four-piece backup band (multi-instrumentalist Tom Hampton, electric guitarist Avery Coffee, bassist Jim Miades, and drummer Tommy Geddes), provide cohesive folk-rock arrangements with the occasional hint of country (particularly when Hampton breaks out his pedal steel), also suggesting the likes of Mellencamp and Earle. It would be easy to figure that Avalon came half-a-dozen records into Malone's career, and, as it turns out, it actually does when you include this journeyman's album with his old band Steamroller Picnic; his two duo albums with Gerry McWilliams; a solo EP, and an earlier EP with the Experts. No wonder he sounds so assured. But if the sound harks back to the heartland rock of the late '70s and ‘80s, it does so more in terms of form than substance. All of the artists with which he might be compared musically (and you can throw in Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen) write substantive, often socially conscious lyrics. Malone writes love songs, often with a sensibility that suggests a man trying to hold his relationship together across distances, as if, for example, he were an itinerant musician. He occasionally waxes poetic, but his inclusion of a cover of "Fortunate Son," a socially conscious song by another major influence, Creedence Clearwater Revival, points up the difference. Maybe that means that this is not great music, but it certainly is good, and it is likely to be enjoyed by music fans who have been starved for this kind of mainstream rock since its heyday. (The digital release of Avalon contains its main 13 tracks. The physical release adds as a bonus track a "radio edit" of one of the songs, plus a 37-minute DVD of an album rehearsal session, and four audio tracks of songs from the DVD, among them a cover of Petty's "I Should Have Known It.")
WIKIPEDIA
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
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