Hezekiah Jones

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I Love My Family

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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I Love My Family
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Drug Buddy
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Cupcakes for the Army
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I've Got a Little Room (Cannonball)
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Genre: Black Metal / Folk / Progressive
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Profile Views: 201253
Last Login: 8/3/2011
Member Since 7/21/2005
Website www.hezekiahjones.com
Record Label Yer Bird/Quite Scientific
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Hezekiah Jones is the musical nom de plume for Raphael Cutrufello and a band of like-minded musicians crafting alternative folk music. His catalog of songs sometimes sounds like a post-apocalyptic White Album, as covered by Sufjan Stevens. The biting, sometimes campy vibe only serves to intensify the blow of his sucker-punch ballads. Songs are filled with outlandish characters, imagined landscapes, ringing harmonies, and baroque instrumental flourishes, but never disconnect from the tangible feelings at their center. -Peter Marinari(CBS Local) .... They have released one full-length album, Hezekiah Says You’re A-Ok, and two EPs, Come to Our Pool Party, and Bread of Teeth, all on Yer Bird Records. Also a split 7 inch, The Asheville Squints, released on Quite Scientific. .... The band is made up of a large and revolving cast of characters. Some of the more constant members joining Raph on stage are Philip D’Agostino(bass, banjo, saw, mandolin, clarinet), Kiley Ryan(violin, vocals), Matt Helm(electric guitar, glockenspiel), Dean Gorfti(drums), Brad Hinton(guitar, dobro, banjo, pedal steel, trumpet, vocals, slide whistle, iphone, lap steel), Daniel Bower(vocals, mandolin, drums, guitar, banjo), Michael Baker(vocals, harmonica, trombone), Ross Bellenoit(lap steel, vocals, iphone, piano, drums, melodica), Andrew J. Keenan(pedal steel, dobro, banjo, vocals), and Chris Kasper(vocals, guitar, drums). .... Hezekiah Jones has spent many wonderful times on the road with such acts as Good Old War, Cast Spells, Chris Kasper, and Chris Bathgate traveling throughout the Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest. Also numerous compilation appearance(Folk Music For The End of the World, That Horse Yonder, How To Make an Arrow, etc.) .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Hezekiah Jones’.. song ..Hundred Miles In.., cowritten with long time writing partner ..Matt Helm.. shows up on the compilation ..Folk Music For What Lies Ahead.. with The Gunshy, Sharon Van Etten, Strand of Oaks, Oweihops, and Matthew Ryan among other great folk acts. .. ...... .. An alternate version of ..Iowa Alligator.. was recorded for ..How To Make an Arrow: Philly Comp. One.., along with The Spinning Leaves, Joe Duffy, Crow Vs. Lion, Sisters3, The Great Unknown, and many more of my local favorites. You can get a copy digitally at ..itunes.. and ..CDBaby... also available physically at shows. .. ...... .. ..Bread of Teeth.. EP. Recorded at The Moonlight Forest. Mixed by Devin Greenwood and mastered by Kyle Swartzwelder and brought to you by the wonderful folks at ..Yer Bird.. also available digitally at ..itunes.. and ..CDBaby.. .. ...... .. The Chris Bathgate/Hezekiah Jones split 7 Inch(The Asheville Squints) is now here! All Done. Chris Bathgate's ..Own Design.., and Hezekiah Jones' ..I've got a little room...Engineered by Jim Roll at his wonderful studio in Ann Arbor, MI. It became available on Sept. 30th through ..Quite Scientific .. .. ...... .. ..Hezekiah Jones.. released an EP(....Come To Our Pool Party....). also available digitally at ..itunes.. and ..CDBaby.. .. ........ .. ..Hezekiah Jones..' song, ..Mississippi Sea.., is also featured on the compilation ..Folk Music For The End Of The World.. with Paleo, Hayden, Chris Bathgate, O'Death, Oweihops, Sarah White, The Hotel Ghost, Matthew Ryan and many many more: .. ...... .. .. ..Hezekiah Jones..' debut album, ....Hezekiah says you're A-OK...., was released on ..Yer Bird Records... You can get it ..here... also available digitally at ..itunes.. and ..CDBaby.. ........ .... The music of Hezekiah Jones evokes a certain longing in the heart; a longing for times gone and for the possibility of optimism in these uncertain times ahead, all while offering the listener a warm refuge in the confines of the present. Think of having coffee with both Leonard Cohen and Will Oldham, the resulting conversation would be the poetry contained within Raphael Cutrufello's sometimes stark and often hopeful lyrics while the music gently wraps you in its soft, serene blanket..... - ..The Musicologist...... And Here's some nice things written about Raph from an article about StillWillis.. "...Then there's Raph Cutrufello, the prototypical intellectual bohemian, a renaissance man if you will. If you have ever heard someone described as "When they made him, they broke the mold." Raph is as unique and inventive as a modern-day Ben Franklin. With his incisive and biting wit, thrift store attire and the last person on earth who still uses a typewriter, he toils in obscurity as one of the world's great-undiscovered writers. Growing up in Havertown and currently residing in the Fishtown-Northern Liberties section of Philly, Raph is the quintessential poet's poet. Soft-spoken, charming, hilarious. Three words that describe Raph. How he writes lyrics is how I imagine Quentin Tarantino writing a screenplay: "I pre-write on the typewriter and it's a hodge-podge of poetry from a bunch of un-related ideas that I somehow pull together." Being a left-hander, he plays a guitar upside-down better than most people play right side up..."....Jimmy Mac, Compendium Music Magazine.. Vol. 1 Issue 1.... "....While Hezekiah Jones isn't breaking any new ground with their sound, it's a case of the sum being greater than the parts. Cutrufello's lyrics are sometimes recited with a wink, but he can effortlessly shift gears from wryly whimsical to downright melancholic. ..Captain Obvious.. .. .. "...The show started with a sound guy tuning up and getting the levels right. And then he was asking some other guy to come on stage and then they started singing a song I knew and all of a sudden, they were Hezekiah Jones. And they were fantastic. The harmonies were so unobtrusive, but so present--so tangible. Their songs are the gifts wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine given to you by someone who really knows you. Highlights were "Circumstance," "Agnes of the World" and "Hildebrand". "Hildebrand" has two speeds: loping and chipper. The change between the two--downbeat to upbeat--makes for such a pleasant moment that no one in the room could hide their joy....." ..Brad Hoffman.., ..Cafe Eclectica Music.. .. .. some ....Hezekiah Says You're A-OK.... reviews.... ...It’s full of the kind of songs that scintillate along the glistening strands of forlorn love or something like it. Like Will Oldham, who Cutrufello cites as a major influence, the best songs are a little elusive, offering tiny bubbling epiphanies and a bittersweet afterglow. - ..Tara Murtha, Play Philly.. .... ...brings to mind artists like Sam Beam, Paul Simon, and Will Oldham. These aren't just songs. They are musical settings and emotions. It's not too often an acoustic album can grab your attention on one listen, and this does just that. - ..Herohill...... ....La voce profonda di Raphael scivola morbida e suadente sul crescendo della chitarra, e sembra quasi voler prendere per mano il bambino che è in ciascuno di noi, per accompagnarlo nella nera notte stellata, tra il frinire dei grilli e l’erba imperlata di rugiada. ..Alessandra Reale.., ..Le Recensioni di Onda Rock.. .. .. ...a real testament to the beauty of subtlety. Featuring little more than strummed acoustic guitar and vocals throughout (augmented only momentarily by improvised percussion and piano) it’s hardly complex stuff – brilliantly understated, gentle and observant, and thankfully uncluttered by self-consciousness and misplaced optimism. - ..Music-News.com...... ....Hezekiah Jones is the recording name chosen by one Raphael Cutrufello, and Says You're A-OK is the collected works from various recording sessions throughout Philadelphia. While that may read like a sparse, lonesome affair - Hezekiah Says You're A-OK is lavishly decorated with many additional players and instruments including kazoo, slide whistle [see: "Writing Letters In The Morning"], percussion and the help on some foreign vocals ["Just Because It's Quiet.."]. "Hildebrand" reveals one of Hezekiah's strongest skills in their/his ability to begin a song at an upbeat tempo and mid-way shift into a lower gear - a bit like that lil' bastard choo-choo that didn't think he could climb the hill [but could and did, of course]. It is with the lyrical wealth that Cutrufello presents here - both in tone and tale - that gives Says You're A-OK its 'instant keeper' appeal. A truly magnificent, magical and harmonious album this Hezekiah Jones has sent for us - the battered and needy. This album could make watching air escape ever-so slowly from a faulty tire seem like the most beautiful event imaginable - crazy beautiful it is. -..Kaleb, SCTAS...... ..
Members
..Studio Hezekiah Jones.. is raphael cutrufello who writes the songs and plays piano, guitar, rhodes piano, harmonica, melodica, slide whistle, vocals, pots and pans, kazoo, xylophone, accordian. matt helm-guitar. dean gorfti-drums percussion. phil d'agostino- bass. jonas oesterle-drums. heather simpson-vocals, talks. b.j. mccaffery-guitar. steven ugo ciannavei-bass. greg spear-guitar, bass, vocals. clare callaghan-vocals. mike caroto-vocals, keyboard. nick gordon-guitar. chris grunwald-vocals, guitar, drums, bass, keyboard. allison polans-vocals. rebekah callaghan-violin. andrew keenan-pedal steel guitar, dobro, banjo, acoustic guitar, lap steel. noah koerner-bass. barbara gettes-vocals. sam jacobs-bass, vocals. drew english-vocals.michael baker-vocals, trombone, wood whistle. chris bathgate-vocals, percussion. kiley ryan-violin, vocals. brad hinton-lap steel guitar. matt jones-drums. joe bisirri-cellphone. jonathan low-cellphone. daniel 'skrappy' bower-guitar, drums, banjo. ben longenecker-bass.....Live Hezekiah Jones.. is variations of the following people and instruments. anywhere from 1 to 8 or 10 or 12, and sometimes 3 or 2--raph cutrufello(hezekiah jones)-guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano. phil d'agostino(pepe jones)-bass, saw, banjo, mandolin, clarinet, awesometude. brad hinton(pocono jones)-guitar, dobro, banjo, pedal steel, trumpet, vocals, slide whistle, iphone, lap steel. kiley ryan(kiwi jones)-violin, vocals, reading, tambourine. dean gorfti(jones jones)-drums. matt helm(schulkyhill jones)-guitar. matt helm(karakung jones)-glockenspiel. daniel bowers(roy g biv jones)-vocals, mandolin, guitar, drums. ross bellenoit(drones jones)-lap steel guitar, vocals, iphone, piano, drums, melodica. clare callaghan(sawyer jones)-vocals. michael baker(kentucky joe jones)-vocals, harmonica, trombone. andrew keenan(tones jones)-pedal steel guitar, dobro, banjo, vocals. allison polans(sadie jones)-vocals, readings. barbara gettes(barbo jones)-vocals. . anna christie sadler(jane jones)-vocals. chris kasper(three hour jones)-vocals, guitar, drums. chris bathgate(christian jones)-mandolin, vocals. adrien reju(rosetta jones)-vocals. tim arnold(indiana jones)-accordian, drums. andrew lipke(dr. lionel j.d. jones)-vocals, guitar, keyboards. dave davison(gargamel jones)-electric guitar. shawn hennessey(pappa joe jones)-percussion. ej simpson(unknown jones)-mandolin. bevin caulfield(joni jones)-vocals. matt jones(grumble jones)-drums. zachary nichols(falcorps jones)-saw, trumpet. kyle swartzwelder(prozac jones)-vocals, guitar. brad jacobson(mister jones)-lap steel guitar, banjo. harrison treegoob(aecH jones)-vocals. tom hamilton(baby jones)-guitar. carl cheeseman(ice cream sink jones)-guitar. lisa schaffer(snappy jones)-photog machine. matt milla(militia jones)-pedal steel guitar. annie palmer(orphan jones)-vocals. michael andrew gall(desmond jones)-uke. bethany brooks(prudence jones)-piano, mandolin, vocals. jack byers(go-go jones)-guitar, vocals. gary lebiedzinski(skippy jones)-drums. bob beach(seashore jones)-harmonica, flute, general awesomness. adam flicker(flicker jones)-trumpet, keyboards, vocals. ryan stroud(spit-valve jones)-trumpet. david fishkin(dakota jones)-baritone saxaphone. chris grunwald(dow jones)-vocals, shaker, melodica, guitar, bass. chuck treece(jesse jone)-drums. david w. jones(gravy jones)-banjo. fred burman(strongberry jones)- drums. joshua park(low beard jones)-vocals. john haeffs(tempo jones)-drums. reed kendell(kindling jones)-vocals. joe d'amico(forty hours a week jones)-mandolin, vocals. dante bucci(spike jones)-saw. kristen sylvester(awesome jones)-vocals. johnny miles(johnny jones)-vocals. john romberger(smarty jones)-vocals. beth yannone(antiquita jones)-vocals. ..
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