s/t (self)
From the moment the stylus touches down, a technicolor cohort of hooks and melodies bounds in jangly power pop affirmation. Variegated song constructions are witty and uncommonly clever.
Earthy ebullience in the Land of 1000 Dances. Plunge, too, into the assuasive, White album-redolent "Because I'm In Love."
Online, Jonny elaborated about "Dirty 15:" "I read a newspaper article about a 15 year-old girl who fell into a life of prostitution on Colfax." That Denver avenue was portrayed in Kerouac's On the Road and once described by Playboy as "the longest, wickedest street in North America."
"A concerned family found her, and helped her get off the street to realize her dream of going to college...far from the Dirty 15 [area bus]. The story inspired me to write this."
The former sparkplug of the Rhythm Razors and Living Deads also observed that "I absolutely love this song, and am flummoxed at why it isn't a hit, yet."
Given its union of agile pop majesty, harmonies 'til Tuesday, and frank human-experience realism, greater acknowledgement is its due.
That reckoning applies with equal aptness to the other selections.
Recommended: "Go For the Moon," "The Dirty 15," "Because I'm In Love," "Don'tcha Know," "Goddess Surprise," "Day-Glo Miniskirt"
Video: "The Dirty 15"
"Go For the Moon"
"Don'tcha Know"
"Because I'm In Love"
https://www.facebook.com/jonnybarber/
https://www.amazon.com/Jonny-Barber/dp/B01NBMIDVQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Jonny+Barber&qid=1566530386&s=dmusic&sr=1-1
https://music.apple.com/us/album/jonny-barber/1188121833
https://soundcloud.com/colfaxavenue/jonny-barber-the-dirty-15
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