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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

The Manda-Tones

Blues Spotlight on PJ Tone

(Self-issued)



One is immediately struck by PJ's bond with this popular music building block, a connection evident in both his seasoned voice and the pointed dexterity with which he cultivates earthy majesty from six fiery strings. This being a double album, opportunities for impassioned articulation abound. None go untouched.

Recommended: "Electric Boogie Machine," "A Heartbreaker Broke My Heart," "A Real Bad Scene," "Backwoods Boogaloo," "That Ain't What Love Is," "Tip Joint," "Man-Sized Love," "I Ain't Thinkin' Right," "Soul Reputation," "What You Did Ain't Right," "Big City Blues (A Tribute to Link Wray)," "The Wicked and the Righteous," "Booty Shaker," "Evil Lowdown Ways," "Healin' Feelin'," "Story 'Bout the Blues," "Baby That's Transportation," "Slow Cookin'," "Bad Machine," "Only Child," "Crawling Over Broken Glass," "Take a Chance On Me," "I Don't Wanna Be Happy," "All That Jive," "Dead and Gone," "Tragically Blue"

Video: "Take a Chance On Me" (live)


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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..