Cotton Jones , the project of Page France members Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw, will be putting out their full length album, Paranoid Cocoon , on January 27, 2009 via Suicide Squeeze Records . The group currently only has a couple of dates scheduled which can be found on their, MySpace page , but a full US tour is planned in support of the album in February and a stop at SXSW is also anticipated. Track Listing 01. Up a Tree 02. Gotta Cheer Up ( mp3 [...]
i got really into page france for about a minute back in 2006 & then kind of lost track of 'em...earlier this year i heard that main man, michael nau, had put the band on hold in order to spend time on another project called the cotton jones basket ride ...i checked them out, but to be honest it all flew a little too far under my radar, until i caught ear of this track the other day...apparently nau has dropped the basket ride from cotton jones, or maybe it's an all new outlet entirely...whatever it is, [...]
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Cotton Jones is the new project from Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw of Page France. The forthcoming debut full length, Paranoid Cocoon , is due out January 27, 2009 on Suicide Squeeze Records. I'm going to classify the sound as backwoods psychedelic. Enjoy the first track released, "Gotta Cheer Up." Cotton Jones - Gotta Cheer Up
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Again, to recap: Cotton Jones is actually Michael Nau of Page France writing under a different band name. Page France are on indefinite hiatus, but it really doesn't matter since the Cotton Jones stuff is kissing cousins to the previous band's sound. They're releasing their full length Paranoid Cocoon on Suicide Squeeze next year. MP3: Cotton [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 If I have a relatively quiet day at work I think that I may head on down to the other side of town to see Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist. Have any of you caught a screening or anything? The trailers have been solid, but the title annoys me and I'm a little concerned about its level of cheesiness. In any case, the music part of my world today is all about Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw's [...]
I need a song about how originality is so overrated about as much as I need an actual basket ride, but I actually do need a song that forcefeeds Owen Bradley handfuls of peyote and sets him loose in the desert. On "Original Bones", Cotton Jones (formerly the Cotton Jones Basket Ride and currently former Page France frontman Michael Nau and songwriting partner Whitney McGraw) expresses some indie-mundane sentiments with fussiness and pretense ("Everyone's trying to be so original these days, you know that's not very original at [...]
Sure, it's no surprise that the guy behind a former Suicide Squeeze band ( Page France ) would put out a record on the same label with his new project. However, Mike Nau's Cotton Jones Basket Ride isn't just putting out a full-length on Suicide Squeeze. Cotton Jones is also putting out stuff on Quite Scientific and Velvet Blue Music in the near future. Who does Nau think he is... Robert Pollard or something? Here's the Cotton Jones jam — from one of the 1,529,418 upcoming releases— [...]
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Michael Nau is rapidly becoming one of today's most prolific songwriters. As if he weren't content to record and release an album's worth of Page France material every year, he's also doing solo work as Cotton Jones. MP3: Cotton Jones - Miracle ...
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