Jon Hogan & Maria Moss
Artist Bio
fromhttp://www.reverbnation.com/jonhoganband
Scorch-folk: Well-made original songs and a blistering, rollicking take on 1930s rural America. Percussive rhythm guitar and furious fingerpicking. Intensity, passion and an Appalachian root. Primitive-modernist music that will break your heart and blow the doors off your Ford.
"Exhilarating, heartbreaking, wild, epic, microcosmic, toe-tapping, head-nodding, gut busting, soul searching...They made us live an extra year of our lives in a couple of hours."
Jon Hogan's arrangements of traditional and old-time country songs were inspired by the 1920s and '30s recordings of artists such as Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, Uncle Dave Macon, the Carter Family, Rutherford & Burnet, Cannon's Jug Stompers and Fiddlin' John Carson. Hogan & Moss also perform original music and Hogan's posthumous co-writes with the late songwriter Blaze Foley. The melodies were commissioned by Blaze's estate in 2009 from lyrics found among his effects after his death in 1989. They've opened for Baskery, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Jonathan Byrd; were presented the Key to the City of El Paso by Mayor John Cook for cultivating American heritage music; and host the annual West Texas Townes Van Zandt tribute at the Starlight Theater in Terlingua each Jan. 1.
Biographies
Jon Hogan has been a full-time folk musician for almost twenty years. He grew up in the American West, immersed from childhood in traditional American mountain, gospel and country music. At age 14 he was playing guitar at bluegrass gigs near Salt Lake City, UT. By 20 he was writing songs and studying old-time mountain music in earnest. Over the past two decades he�s written hundreds of original ballads, love songs, and waltzes rooted in his love of traditional music. He�s also become an engaging speaker on the history of mountain music, helping listeners understand the difference between old-time music and bluegrass, and illustrating old-time�s connection to modern popular genres.
Jon�s musical influences began with Dock Boggs, the Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, Rutherford & Burnet and Cannon�s Jug Stompers, as well as Johnny Cash, Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs,and grew to include Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, Danny Barnes, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Jonathan Byrd, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He's also been deeply influenced by Smithsonian Folkways' 1958 "Mountain Music of Kentucky Vol. II" and the 1952 Harry Smith anthology, also known as the �Smithsonian Anthology of Folk Music.�
In the early 2000s, Jon played in bluegrass bands around the Northwest, including Seattle's Crown Hill Billies. In 2005, he made an Amtrak stopover in Austin and fell hard for the Texas music scene. Before meeting Maria in 2008, he performed solo in Austin and with his band, the Jinx Street Stompers.
"Locomotive fingerpicking....Elizabeth Cotton meets Maybelle Carter"
Maria grew up in Houston, but spent summers as a child soaking up the music and culture of Eastern Tennessee, where her paternal family roots date to the 1860s. She began playing guitar at age 14, inspired by the music she heard in her beloved Smokies.
On the Gulf Coast, she also developed a passion for Southern folk, self-taught, outsider and visionary art. After graduating from the University of Houston, she had a career as a journalist and editorial consultant. In 2007, while recovering from a serious illness, guitar took center stage in her life, and she found her unique, driving finger-picking style. They met through the Kerrville Folk Festival community in 2008, played some song circles, and quickly recognized an unusual resonance between their individual guitar styles and vocal harmonies.
Hogan & Moss will play more than 250 dates in 2013, touring Texas, Tennessee, the Southeast and the Rocky Mountain West.
Recent Recordings
"Reuben's Train," recorded in Nashville in August, 2013 with Andy Leftwich of Ricky Skaggs' band on fiddle and legendary bass player Byron House, of Robert Plant's Band of Joy.
�In Dreams I Go Back Home,� an album of original songs, was produced by North Carolina songwriter Jonathan Byrd and recorded in later 2012. A crowdfunding campaign will complete mixing, mastering and release. A video about the record can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/62958832
�Go Lightning: The Old-Time Album,� released in 2012
Fourteen old-time Appalachian songs recorded onto half-inch tape. Most of Jon Hogan�s arrangements are based on songs recorded between 1927 and 1958, and featured on the Smithsonian�s �Anthology of Folk Music� and �Mountain Music of Kentucky Vol II.� The �Go Lightning� series of session videos appears on YouTube at the kerouacmaria channel.
"Long Shot," a duo CD, 2010. Mixed and mastered by Jonathan Byrd for a raw, natural sound, it is "two guitars, two vocals, three songwriters and the truth." It features songs by Hogan, Moss and Byrd, plus two traditional songs.
�Every Now and Then: Songs of Townes Van Zandt & Blaze Foley,� 2010. Produced as a fundraiser for the Old Quarter Acoustic Caf� in Galveston, TX, after it was damaged by Hurricane Ike. The CD includes Jon Hogan�s three posthumous co-writes Blaze Foley, plus three more Blaze covers and six by Townes.
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Jon Hogan & Maria Moss Band
2012-11-15
November 15, 2012
Austin(TX) -usa-
Jax
source1: Audience [Rode NT4 Stereo MIC]>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]
source2: Onstage [Apex Condenser Mics]>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]
source3: Soundboard>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]
taped by joshua cain
hanwaker got raw flac files, mixed and mastered and tracked 2014-06
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86:16
lots of banter after each track !
01 soundcheck
02 -band intro-
03 my cheyenne woman
04 billy chong
05 ?
06 in dreams i go back home
07 railroad blues
08 leaky tent
09 allensburg
10 can't always cry ( blaze foley)
11 suit of skin
12 you at sunset
13 sugar blues ( w jonathan byrd)
omit the soundcheck and you can overburn to cd
another show is here:
https://archive.org/details/JohnHoganAndMariaMoss82613ChicoHotSprings
recorded by joshuaCain mixed and upload to dime by hanwaker 2014-06
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