Blog: PopWreck(oning)

Mike Nau (of Page France ) began The Cotton Jones Basket Ride as a side project a while back but since his old band broke up it's been the object of his full-time attention. At his new day job, Nau writes songs that groove with a cool , soulful feel, though it never actually sounds like soul or R'n'B, even with the borrowed Motown template in which emphasis is placed on bass grooves supported by organ and occasional horns and strings. The shady, effortless cool of the songs make Paranoid Cocoon 's first five [...]