"well you know they say that praying is praying unless the church is burning to the ground..."
"John without June" by Fayetteville, Arkansas' John Charles, the musical moniker of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Kris Mastin, is a sparkling, slamming, divergent bit of lo-fi rock with pushed falsettos and a kind of wild broadly punching retro rock style. Mastin manages to filter in honkytonk flavors, country punk, filtered through art even proto punk translucence. In some ways it feels like a homage to the kind of hallucinogenic fueled (or not) 60's craziness when artists like The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks were grasping for artistic straws (with great effect) or to the unbridled amazing artful quirkiness of contemporary artists influenced by those bands like Modest Mouse or The White Stripes.
Loving this, or and while you most assuredly have figured this out, the "John" is Johnny Cash and the "June" is June Carter. Mastin has this to say about the track that is from his recent album "Around" that you can check out on his Bandcamp page.
"This song began as an homage to Johnny Cash in the style of Johnny Cash but evolved into something much more expansive. It came, eventually, to encapsulate many of my major influences (Cash, the Kinks, the Strokes) and also functions as a thesis for the multiple styles I am attempting to blend together."
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://johncharles1.bandcamp.com/releases
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pmLox6F0L6CiB1b2tZKOQ
John Charles is a singer-songwriter, musician from Fayetteville, Arkansas
"John Charles is a name I gave to a cop at a sexy-themed party when I was 20. I was wearing my mother's pants. Ever since, I've used it as a moniker for my solo music, inexplicably. But there you have it."
We get by with a little help from our friends
John Charles, "John without June", Lo-fi Rock, garage rock, indie rock, retro rock, country punk, folk punk, Fayetteville, Arkansas, new album, "Around" album,
Loving this, or and while you most assuredly have figured this out, the "John" is Johnny Cash and the "June" is June Carter. Mastin has this to say about the track that is from his recent album "Around" that you can check out on his Bandcamp page.
"This song began as an homage to Johnny Cash in the style of Johnny Cash but evolved into something much more expansive. It came, eventually, to encapsulate many of my major influences (Cash, the Kinks, the Strokes) and also functions as a thesis for the multiple styles I am attempting to blend together."
-Robb Donker Curtius
* * *
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://johncharles1.bandcamp.com/releases
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pmLox6F0L6CiB1b2tZKOQ
John Charles is a singer-songwriter, musician from Fayetteville, Arkansas
"John Charles is a name I gave to a cop at a sexy-themed party when I was 20. I was wearing my mother's pants. Ever since, I've used it as a moniker for my solo music, inexplicably. But there you have it."
We get by with a little help from our friends
John Charles, "John without June", Lo-fi Rock, garage rock, indie rock, retro rock, country punk, folk punk, Fayetteville, Arkansas, new album, "Around" album,
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