mostly just Jodie-Jean...sometimes other folks sing along.....
Paul Craneorchard of Ponieheart and Craneorchard and Bobby Arellano of Havanarama...On Redtail recording, Ned Oldham(Anomaonon), Dave Huemann(Arboretum), Jack Carneal(Anomaonon), and Walker played with Marston
Influences
Melanie, Kate Wolf, Mary McCaslin, Emmy Lou, leaves, wind, trees, etc...
Sounds Like
Jodie-Jean's quasi-mystical perspective gives her songs a jarring quality that's amplified by haunting vocals, slow banjo and a flute that would sound cheesy if it didn't genuinely mimic the wind. Nashville Scene, Danielle Dreilinger----
Marston reaches the most divine heights of introspective Americana and manages to brush up against few other genres in the process. These are songs about the living on the prairie, in the margins, and other subjects close to Marstons heart. The results are timeless and contemporary in the same breath. - Lee Jackson
Jodie-Jean is no stranger, but the strange of her ways will make you feel like you've always known her. You may have seen this foothill fairy with skirt spinning at fiddle and banjo jamboree's, street corners of the Pacific Northwest, Grateful Dead parking lots, folk festivals, dim bars, and Europe. Twenty years of playing venues with mostly old timers and just about every street musician from Seattle to LA. Then, hitching up with the band Rainywood (now BrightBlack) as the singing drummer. Marston's voice chirpped along with the wayward hobos 'Bonnie Prince Billy' winter of 2003. Also, harmonized with the lads of Anomoanon on their 'Derby Ram' and 'Joji' CDs'. She again tailed along with BPB on the Super Wolf tour April 2005. Jodie-Jean Arellano lives in Dixon, New Mexico.
Marstons' second release 'REDTAIL' was recorded by Ned Oldham (Palace Brothers, Palace, Bonnie Prince Billy, and Anomoanon), at Invasive Studios in Baltimore, Maryland on Box Tree Records. All the while the seventeen year cicada's sang along. Their are shimmers from Anomoanon, Arbouretum, and Walker and Jay. Layered like the painted desert. The voices of Ned Oldham, Dave Heumann (Arbouretum, Bonnie Prince Billy), Walker, and Jodie-Jean are hour-glassed sedimentary sweet. All songs were written by Jodie-Jean Arellano in the atempt to make folks go camping.
Mountain is a Mountain was her debut CD recorded at Redtail Recording, in the Mother Lode of California and New England. If you like sounds that wander, this CD will make you think your standing next to a Sierra Nevada river. There are beams of light from Bobby Arellano of Havanarama and Bonnie Prince Billy. Utah Phillips ballad 'Rock Salt n' Nails' is so sweety sung, as well as Yosemite poet Dave Marston's 'Mountain man'. This psycodelic cowgirl could drop a teary dew into a bucket and make a rainbow pie. Mountain is available from Secret Eye Records (www.secreteye.org) and www.jodiemarston.com
we will come to n mexico. maybe this spring. we are headed to kansas city for reasons to many to tell here.
the vw is in full effect and ready for the road.
hello Jodie! great to see that you're still here. how are things in dixon? abq.'s been real kind to me. a whole new NM band! been playing alot and even toured! hope you are well.
