New Jonesy Land album features a more mature and positive outlook on life; 'This time around it’s about the balancing the act of growing older as an artist, husband and a father'
Back in July 2022, Dustin Jones released a video for the standalone single, Ain’t Dead Yet, under the moniker Jonesy Land.Not only is Jones “not dead,” but if his new Jonesy Land album zoom out is any indication, he has a lot of life in him yet.
Jones, who has become known for his raucous early work with the Inner City Surfers, and later Dustin Jones and the Rising Tide, has taken a different approach to songwriting. Jones told Deresti about halfway through the six months it took to complete the album that the songs no longer felt like he wrote them.
“I started trying to do the tracking myself in the common track-by-track approach but it just wasn’t feeling right. The songs sounded better to me on my phone voicemail clips with just me singing and playing them with my acoustic guitar. So that’s what we did. I went in and played the songs live off the floor, just me and my guitar, Frank with behind the board, and those are the actual takes you hear on the recordings.
“Near the end of time, it was as if Superior spoke to me. The words ‘zoom out’ popped into my head. So I tried it right there and then. I’d take any issue and I started to methodically zoom out on it layer by layer. It only takes one or two steps out to realize it’s not much of an issue at all. When there’s no problems it leaves the mind free to wander and work in peace. It’s art man. It’s basically unexplainable. There’s magic in those Superior waters, that much I am sure of.
A collateral bonus for Jones is that his children are now old enough to be aware of the recording process this time around.“They hadn’t seen me quite like that. Long hours in the studio … and in that hyper creative-aware state, always ready to receive some transmission. I’m glad they got to see and experience the process start to finish.”
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