Jonathan Barker: News

The band is rolling nicely now and gathering momentum, still building a repertoire and generating a buzz around town! Keep an eye out for the band at Blue 5, Fork in the Alley, Schooners, Corned Beef & Co, Brambleton Deli, AND we can do private functions as well!

YOu can expect to hear The Band, Little FEat, Van Morrison, Warren Zevon, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Cars, Peter Gabriel, Barenaked Ladies, Tom Petty, John Prine, Traffic, and more including some originals!

Jonathan Barker (keys and vocals)
Will Henson (bass and vocals)
Matt Holland (drums and vocals)
Mike Maycock (guitar and vocals)

This new project is finally getting some dates on the books and will be performing in public starting in the spring! April 1st is the public debut at Fork in the Alley! Please come out and support live music!

Runaway Jones is:
Jonathan Barker (keys and vocals)
Mike Maycock (guitar and vocals)
Will Henson (bass and vocals)
Matt Holland (drums and vocals)

A new project including Jonathan, Mike Maycock, Will Henson, and Matt Holland is cooking in the basement! The band has been rehearsing since last spring putting together fresh tunes, working from the ground up, to bring something new and different to the area. The band will be performing some of Jonathan's originals as well as originals contributed by Will Henson and Mike Maycock. They are also covering a spectrum of music from Barenaked Ladies to Peter Gabriel to Phish to Van Morrison and more. Keep your eyes and ears open!

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season! Let's remember the true reason to celebrate the holiday!

Jonathan is currently ranked 36 for male vocalist on OurStage.com for his song You and I off the first self-titled CD. Go to www.ourstage.com and look up Jonathan Barker or thedudes (alias) and select him as a favorite! You can still purchase a copy of the CD at many outlets including CD Baby and now IndieRhthym.com.

Jonathan is now on IndieRadio! You can hear his music and buy your own CDs at http://www.indierhythm.com/product.php?cdId=6538!

Now, you can get both of Jonathan's releases, Jonathan and Mojo, for $5.00 each! Log on to www.cdbaby.com/artist/jonathan1 to find out how! You can take care of some of your Christmas shopping now at one website! Grab Jonathan's two releases and then browse for another CD such as Animals at Play (which Jonathan happens to play on) and get all three for only $15.00!! That's three CDs for the cost of one in many CD stores!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tell-you/id329467426?i=329467638&ign;-mpt=uo=4

Hey everybody, you can finally get your own copy of the new CD directly from CDBaby. Just go to the link:
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Jonathan1
and you can get a hard copy of the CD or order the digital music for your MP3 player! It's also available on ITunes and any of the sites for digital distribution.

Thanks for your support!

The benefit for the Crisis Hotline was a success, headed up by John Sines, Jr. John, great to see you again and hear you play! The show kicked off with Ray Neighbors bringing some of his very talented friends/musicians from Nashville covering everything from Louis Prima and Ray Charles to Johnny Cash and a few originals thrown in there. There was also a workshop on learning how to talk like Dan. Thanks guys! After Ray heated things up, Buddy Jewell took the stage backed by the opening band and pleased the crowd with his past hits and new music from his recent release "Country Enough." John Sines, Jr. closed the show and brought smiles and cheers to those in attendance. It was a privilege to be a part of such fine musicianship and a worthy cause. The Spirit alive in everyone who made the event possible was a pleasure to be around. Kudos to John Sines, Jr. for a job well done!

Just back from Merlefest and have to report on the Waybacks! James Nash blew me away and lifted the crowd with his guitar playing. Festival highlight was during the Waybacks tribute hour to the Stones' Sticky Fingers. Already on stage joining them were Sam Bush and John Cowan, but then they brought out Emmylou Harris for Wild Horses! What a grand spectacle and tribute to the Stones!

More progress taking place at Blackwater! Many new songs in the pocket and we're laying them down with the engineering genius of Harold Thompson and David McDonald. Bob Casey, Dylan Locke, and Dave Brown are lending their talents to make the music happen! There is definite momentum!

The ole saying when one door closes, another opens... is true. The only thing you truly have control over is yourself. Even those closest to you can disappoint, but if you can keep the faith and persevere, new opportunities will arise.

Old friends and new friends have risen to the surface to bring forth new projects. We are taking things very slowly, but hope to see some time performing locally by the time the season changes! A new venture affectionately termed The Cooks has been rehearsing with a unique instrumental line-up. We have performed once as a trio at the Taubman Museum already and anticipate greater things to come.

One awakened giant from the past is the Electric Wooshed. Keep an eye out for dates when we may be performing. Right now, we have dates in Roanoke, Blacksburg, and Floyd.

Come out and see the Spitfire Grill! This is the last weekend of the performance! Saturday at 2pm and 8pm and Sunday at 2pm!

I will be the guy in the orchestra pit with the accordion.

Starting to download performances to YouTube. Check out the Links to Others tab to watch performances.

I am certain you are all aware of the surge of digital downloading. The music media is forever evolving and so many people are downloading their favorite tunes off the internet. I am still a promoter of buying the entire CD, BUT for those of you with ITunes or any MP3 players, you can also download my music from nearly any of the digital companies: Itunes, Rhapsody, Napster, MusicMatch, and yes, even Verizon Wireless! There are a score of these distributors! And thanks to CD Baby, Jonathan's music is available through most of them!

Jonathan has been working with Lynn Irby on a project for a children's compilation CD. The song was written by Lynn and has already been bought!

Jonathan Barker and Steve Guidus, Two Dudes, performed at the Silent and Live Auction for the 4H Club in Richmond, VA, on February 26, 2005. The duet was auctioned off to play a private party for the high bidder. Two Dudes brought a high bid of $1,700.00 which will benefit the 4H program. Thanks to Sue Mullins for getting us involved with this event.