PASSPORT: JASON PLUMB
Jason Plumb And The Willing - Beauty In This World
Soft Pop is terug. En hoe! James Blunt, John Mayer, James Morrison, Paulo Nutini, Jack Johnson. Noem maar op en ga maar door. Het staat in de Top 40 en het wordt grijsgedraaid op zo’n beetje iedere radiozender. Zeg maar de nieuwe Jackson Brownes en James Taylors (of doe ik nu mensen pijn). Jason Plumb heeft geen hit maar doet niks en nergens onder voor bovengenoemde heren. Sterker nog … in zijn geheel is Beauty In This World beter dan het losse flodderwerk. Het losse flodderwerk van de nieuwe generatie dan. Maar ja, zoet is het wel. Dus voer voor de liefhebber van de gevoelige singer-songwriter, die niet vies is van een strijkje hier en daar. Spaarlampen uit en de kaars aan! (Patrick Donders)
1. What’s in the name/what’s in the title?
It ’s my name (Jason Plumb) and the Willing is a “Coalition of” also are willing to play my music.
2. What’s your first musical memory?
Listening to Blood Sweat and Tears “Spinning Wheel” in stereo on headphones.
3. First cd/lp you bought?
Queen “News of the World” album
4. At which moment did you decide that your music had to be heard?
After I had written my first song.
5. What was the biggest musical step you took so far?
Producing/mixing my own album
6. You won a contest. First price is: a master class in song writing and you can chose the teacher. Who would you ask and what should the lesson be about?
Andy Partridge (XTC) about lyrics that make you think.
7. Best concert you ever saw?
Cheap Trick (Dream Police Tour) or Elvis Costello (Mighty Like a Rose tour) or WILCO (AM).
8. Who of your musical friends is going to change the world? And how?
Ed Robertson (BNL) by injecting light heartedness into serious pop music.
9. It’s the end of the world and everybody knows it and they ask you to sing one more song for the whole wide world ! Which one are going to pick?
End of the World (Waltons)
10. What’s up for the next couple of months?
Writing, Touring, Nashiville trip for the Americana Music Fest, Europe for promo tour, find out what this whole “internet” thing is all about.
