The Portland Mercury asked some influencial local musicians to list their favorite records of 2005.
Here is what Alex James from Dolorean wrote:
1. Tenlons Fort – The Golden Handshake
2. Jose Gonzalez – Veneer
3. Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
4. Bill Fay – Time of the Last Persecution
5. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
6. Holy Sons – My Only Warm Coals
7. Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
8. Boards of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
9. Neil Young – Prairie Wind
10. Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
Pretty cool…..TFort is at the top. I’m pretty psyched since it was my first time engineering and we had to do some hard core guerilla recording. But Jack Gibson is the shit and so are his songs, so he made it super easy.
About John
John is an Nashville based touring/session bassist. He has played live and recorded with such artists as Little Big Town, Matt Nathanson, Brett Dennen, David Garza, Ingrid Michaelson, Patrice Pike, Juliana Hatfiled, Jack Ingram, Mike McClure, Adam Brand, Kate Earl, the Asylum Street Spankers, Blu Sanders and Craig Marshall.
John’s musical journey started in Texas at the prestigious Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, and that was followed by the University of North Texas.
John has also engineered/produced records by Tenlons Fort (symphonic folk/pop), Little Alice Spencer and Her Monkey Butlers (vintage jazz), LAZ D (hip hop) and Craig Marshall (guitar pop).
He is currently touring with Little Big Town in support to their album Reason Why.
