JBR Music Lyrics

NEWS

4/8/2010

Live gig at Fulton Homes from 5pm to 8 pm. (An open house for a planned community in Chandler, AZ). Set list: Rain Song/Coming Home, Goodbye Blue Sky/Flying Aces/Carolina In My Mind/Never Die Young, Listen To Her Heart/Your Time Is Gonna Come, Peace Train, Crazy Train, Southern Cross, With Or Without You, Lemon Song, Little Martha, Star Spangled Banner, Sweet Jane, Garden Wall, Things Go Wrong, Woodstock, Border/Going To California/No Surrender/Brown Eyed Girl, Tangerine, Do It Again, The Race Is On.

2/16/2010

JBR, I have to say that WLF is the best produced album you have put out. I also think it is the best artistically. Remember I love your stuff but some of the albums you have done are way out there. I think with WLF you went back to what you do the best. Some Lousiana Vodoo folksy stuff, tongue in cheek metal, and some progressive rock but you didn't strecth on any of the songs this time, which I think occurred on a few of the other albums. I will give you my crictial breakdown on each song and then give my suggestions for greatest hits:

1. Kings - What an opener for this album. Start to finish best and most consistant lyrics and it also stays consistant in regard to chords. Top 5 JBR songs ever. This song is great for your range.

2. Sweet Mary - Nice work on the guitar on this one. Nice change of rhythym and it also explores some solo between verses. Nice little story told incorporating words you can easily visualize.

3. BCC #2 - Hells yes. This is the old school stuff I love. Favorite line of any of your songs..."I know a place down, down the Onion Road... I love the ode to Fogarty on the last verse with the scammmmmmmm being carried out while your voice shakes. This is a JBR classic.

4. Monterey Blues - The instruments are fantastic on this one, but for some reason I can't get attached to the singing. The lyrics are good though. Multiple layers on the intruments make it stand out.

5. Stranger to Me Know - It took about three chords and this song made me think of Sister Goldenchild. I like it a lot. Great acoutic slide on this one. Lyrics are good to. Your voice sounds good on this one again.

6. Final Word - Favorite song on the album. Lyrics are incredible. You must have worked hard at getting the words to rhyme while fitting the song and meaning. You did great on this one. Love the stomp during the chorus. Reminds me of a back I saw at Eastern Kentucky University named Bone Pony. They were a three person band where the procussion was a guy on guiter banging on a stomp pad.

7. Let's Fly - I was listening to this song as I drove to Grand Forks while the wind was blowing snow in fimger drifts across I-29. It was pretty cool. This reminded me of Steve Miller and something else I couldn't put my finger on. Sweet song though.

8. LVdM - Sax is a nice sound on this one and very unexpected. Very progressive but not over done.

9. It's Gonna Snow - Great guitar on this song. I can't figure out why it is gonna snow though. I may be to literal though. This song reminded me of a Spanish song. A little more drums action would have made this song pretty cool.

10. IDS - Reminded me of the Immigrant Song by Zep. Nice guitar intro and a story being told. Simple and understated.

11. Gaurding the Czar - Good song, but it could have been a great song with a more developed story. Get into the Bolshevik Revolution some more and it could have been like "The Trees" from Rush. This song made me think of the movie Dr. Zhivago, one of my all time favorites. It would have been awesome with more development. The multi-layerd vocals on the chorus are cool.

12. Knuckleduster - very Clapton like. I could imagine myself watching Clapton Unplugged on MTV and hearing this song. Your guitar skills have developed a lot and it shows big time on this song.

13. Legend Had It - What a fun song. Tongue in cheek. You had to have google the legends to remember all of them you put into the song. Keyboards are sweet. Sounds like an 80's metal song that couldn't be made in the 80's because it needed time to be able to view histories reflection on the Tipper Gore BS of explicit lyrics. Great job on this one.

14. Dragonhead - A little Sabbath on this one. Good guitar and the lyrics are good too. Story being told and it kept it going the entire time. You didn't stretch the lyrics on this one which could be easy to do on a song like this.

15. Crystal Forest - Nice and simple, but too many breaks in the song. That may have been what you were going for though.

16. Dopestar - At least you think my girlfriends smokin. Great line there. This is a perfect song to have as the last song on the album. Here are my picks for greatest hits (if you haven't fallen asleep from my insight) Kings, BCC#2, Stranger to Me Know, Final Word, Legend Has It, and Knuckleduster. Hope this helps your future music.

Corey

11/19/09

Release of White Line Fever - the 7th studio album.

8/9/08

The music was awesome...loved all of it! Listening to you and Laurel sing again was cool. My wife is a diehard JBR fan...she's always asking me to learn how to play your songs and I have to tell her I can't because of the Jedi-like reflexes and rhythm required.

- Patrick Cheever

7/29/08

JBR (Jack Brian Riedel and Co.) is currently working on his second compilation CD. I don’t want to say Greatest Hits Vol. 2, but ok why not. The purpose of this CD is to bring the many sides of JBR Music to your local MP3 grocery store – iTunes. Expect saxophone, a few more “bare bones” acoustic and vocal instrumentals.

7/1/08

Release of Vltava Rising (17-song compilation CD). Available on iTunes.

6/18/08

Release of Unified Field (full length studio CD).

Review:

Intriguing, full of surprises, and a marked change. Intense rambling jams not unlike Floyd or Sabbath? A necessary darkness from your metal past. Heavy, trance-like, somewhere in time. A science fiction meeting place between you and Vaughn. Although the lyrics aren't so prominent at first, they're creative non-first person, non-pop, ridiculous, sometimes disturbing, with a sentimental cap at the end.

Maybe it's just me, probably just me, but the only thing out of place is Solve 4N, but it's a good listen. I don't know where you are on the complete production, but consider changing the font of "UF" on the cover, maybe something bold and sans-serif to differentiate from the "JBR". It was hard to read until I looked at the hand-printed disc. I like it!

- Jesse Katzman SFO Productions

5/26/08

Iron Maiden Live at Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix Arizona.

4/12/08

Live Performance – House party (there weren’t any kegs) at the residence of Greg Vaughan. Police called – therefore a success.

3/11/08

Habitat For Humanity – New Orleans Mission Trip.