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Fri, June 21
Freddy Jones Band
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In 2000 The Freddy Jones Band went on hiatus. During the ten previous years of recording and touring, the band had amassed a body of work that included five albums of ambitious, wide-reaching rock and a reputation for expansive and energetic live shows that made the quintet a hot commodity on the tape-trader circuit. And now the Freddy Jones Band is back and reminding the world what was so special in the first place. The group's original lineup - singer-guitarists Wayne Healy, Marty Lloyd and Rob Bonaccorsi, bassist Jim Bonaccorsi and drummer Simon Horrocks - reunited in the summer of 2005 for a charity show in it's former home base of Chicago. Now the FJB is playing for keeps again. The group's new album, TIME WELL WASTED - it's first since 1999's MILE HIGH LIVE - is at once a recap and a step forward. It features 10 tracks recorded live in 2007, reprising favorites such as "Take the Time," "Waitress," "One World" and "In a Daydream." That's exciting enough, but TIME WELL WASTED also has three new songs - "Home Thing," "Contender" and "Empty Room" - written by the Healy and Lloyd team and marking the start of a new era in the group's interrupted history.
In 2000 The Freddy Jones Band went on hiatus. During the ten previous years of recording and touring, the band had amassed a body of work that included five albums of ambitious, wide-reaching rock and a reputation for expansive and energetic live shows that made the quintet a hot commodity on the tape-trader circuit. And now the Freddy Jones Band is back and reminding the world what was so special in the first place. The group's original lineup - singer-guitarists Wayne Healy, Marty Lloyd and Rob Bonaccorsi, bassist Jim Bonaccorsi and drummer Simon Horrocks - reunited in the summer of 2005 for a charity show in it's former home base of Chicago. Now the FJB is playing for keeps again. The group's new album, TIME WELL WASTED - it's first since 1999's MILE HIGH LIVE - is at once a recap and a step forward. It features 10 tracks recorded live in 2007, reprising favorites such as "Take the Time," "Waitress," "One World" and "In a Daydream." That's exciting enough, but TIME WELL WASTED also has three new songs - "Home Thing," "Contender" and "Empty Room" - written by the Healy and Lloyd team and marking the start of a new era in the group's interrupted history.