Mason Jennings

[blackwasp]

Has anyone here heard of Mason Jennings? He's an indie-folk artist from Minnesota. I was able to see him twice last week when he opened for Modest Mouse. If you download, you may want to check out "The Mountain", "California", "Keepin' It Real", "Lemon Grove Avenue", "Birds Flying Away", and "Bullet".

 

[musicPhan#41]

i believe he plays with jack johsnon... and i actually have one of his concerts on cd. he's pretty good.

 

[traingosorry]

heh.... I was just going to ask does he sound anything like Jack Johnson because while any one of Mr. Johnson's songs are good....they ALL seem to sound the same. Although I have been hearing that his new album is the best so far and I have yet to hear that.

Dos this Mason man change his style up a little in his songs?
Thanks for the name-drop, I'll check him out for sure

 

[musicPhan#41]

heh.... I was just going to ask does he sound anything like Jack Johnson because while any one of Mr. Johnson's songs are good....they ALL seem to sound the same. Although I have been hearing that his new album is the best so far and I have yet to hear that.

Dos this Mason man change his style up a little in his songs?
Thanks for the name-drop, I'll check him out for sure

jack mixes it up enough for me.... donovan frankenreiter, on the other hand, IMO, sounds too similar with each song. the intonation of his voice is the same with every lyric. it goes up and then down at the end of every line.

i have all of jack's cds. the new one is good. i would say it's about as good as the last one. his first is my favorite, but not by much... they're all really cool chill albums.

 

[traingosorry]

jack mixes it up enough for me.... donovan frankenreiter, on the other hand, IMO, sounds too similar with each song. the intonation of his voice is the same with every lyric. it goes up and then down at the end of every line.

i have all of jack's cds. the new one is good. i would say it's about as good as the last one. his first is my favorite, but not by much... they're all really cool chill albums.

heh... thanks for the heads up on this Donovan guy

 

[musicPhan#41]

heh... thanks for the heads up on this Donovan guy

well, i do like donovan and i dig his style, but the tone bothers me a bit.

 

[blackwasp]

Dos this Mason man change his style up a little in his songs?
Thanks for the name-drop, I'll check him out for sure

His recordings sound a little more "old-timey" than similar artists. He changes things up a bit from time to time, and he has a really killer voice...very unique.

Here's a review of the album:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/j/jennings_mason/mason-jennings-birds-flying-away.shtml


I enjoy this part:

A great one-sentence review of a Butterglory release in some zine years ago: "Now that Pavement is R.E.M., everybody is Pavement." Now that Wilco is being inaugurated as heir to those bands, the race is accidentally on to be Wilco. Which is not to imply that Wilco is done being Wilco, just that they've become Wilco the Superentity, the much-prophesied "American Radiohead" that Modest Mouse was supposed to become, leaving a sizable gap where Wilco the mere Respectable Act once was. The re-release of these 1998 and 2000 records by Minnesota's Mason Jennings are evidence that he's poised on the brink of a brink: he could assume a lofty role at the pre-infallibility level of Tweedy's outfit, or he could plop into the nutrasweet realm and get stuck between Dave Matthews and Eagle-Eye Cherry.