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| Produced by Dan Prothero.Get the Flash Player to hear the music you're missing.Bruno's in San Francisco.Get the Flash Player to hear the music you're missing.REALLY expensive vintage gear.Produced by Dan Prothero.South Florida
Had a blast this weekend down at the Bamboo Room (as usual).Caught this crazy looking Spanish Hogfish, an even wilder looking Scorpionfish and an assortment of Snapper.We want to thank Nicole for hooking us up with some great food on saturday and Karen and Russell (Bamboo Room owners) for the magnificent lunch Sunday.MOFRO in Australia in 2008!Special Sauce among others.MOFRO have been voted one of the 10 best CDs of 2007 by WFUV.They are in great company with Amy Winehouse, Spoon, Mavis Staples, Jose Gonzalez, Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams and Nick Lowe.Tony Joe White, MOFRO itself and others for a festival christening a newly renovated amphitheater.JJ Grey became a realist early on."Are you sure you want to block this user?Growing up in the swamplands of northern Florida, down home roots, rock and soul artist JJ Grey became a realist early on.You tend to grow up with a certain amount of realism in your life."Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, and his songs oftentimes use the loss of his natural surroundings and the marginalization of the Southern culture he grew up in as a metaphor for universal truths.The band delivers his material with brilliant musicianship.From the beginning, Grey's songs have been connected to his ancestral Florida homestead 40 miles outside of Jacksonville, a landscape he writes about with passion and devotion.At the time Grey had a young original band that needed a guitar player so he gave Hance the call.The two hit it off instantly.MOFRO's rabid following, through hard work, touring and undeniable musical prowess, grew quickly.Doors at press, radio and venues opened across the country.MOFRO performed at Bonnaroo, opened for Widespread Panic, Ben Harper, Galactic, B.The band continues to tour constantly, and has hit the road hard in support of COUNTRY GHETTO.Just got all your music from itunes!Hey guys just wanted to say Hi and I just saw yall on Steve Erwins' show on the Animal Planet.Get your asses back to Portland.If you need more incentive than just being liked by me, my girl will show you her tits!Another great run at the Bamboo Room in Lake Worth, Fl.....Looking forward to the February show at the Culture Closet in Ft Liquordale.Your music is the real deal and it really sinks into my soul.Hope you had a fabulous day and all the best to you this year...Adam,I see you'll be in town this week I hope to see you.The sound there is incredible.Please keep coming to that venue.Sorry for pinching your butt on stage JJ!!Thank you so much for sharing it with us!!!Great show on New Years!Can't wait to see ya again in Atlanta!When are you coming back to the Rockies????Maybe I won't be too afraid to speak this time...Blockbuster Video locations, Hear Again CD's, Hyde and Zeke's Records, or Ticketweb.Tupelo Honey was soooo great!JJ did a beautiful rendition of an incredible song.Where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them.Nashville after your Feb.I'm gonna miss it cuz' I'm in Iraq right now.Also can't wait to get back to my real home in Jax n' do me some fishin on Lochloosa and Orange.We all had a blast on NYE.....The 28th and 29th at Freebird were amazing....SO excited to see you added two stops at Skipper's in TAMPA again!Get rid of the tables so we can dance!Atlantic Beach and got to see you guys the 28th and 29th at Freebird.Thank you for a killer run in Jax!You guys sounded great, I had a blast!Can't wait to see you guys.Please come back to Columbia,SC soon!Wish yall were rockin' Richmonnd, VA!Happy belated new years!!!Can't wait to see what's in store this time around!!!This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Do you wish to continue your form submission?"This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted.JJ Grey and his band Mofro exude rocking, funky, melodic, front porch realism in every song they play.The result of their brilliant musicianship is music that is thought provoking, rhythmically dynamic and texturally mesmerizing.Sign Up or Sign In to comment on this event!JJ Grey and his band Mofro exude rocking, funky, melodic, front porch realism in every song they play.Sign Up or Sign In to comment on this event!MOFRO is a soul and southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida composed of JJ Grey, Daryl Hance, George Sluppick (drums) and Adam Scone (keyboard) and Caroline Jomama (tamborine and triangle).Dan Prothero since their first studio outing, "Blackwater", released in 2001 on Prothero's label Fog City Records.JJ Grey is a huge Otis Redding Fan, and he frequently sings a tribute to him during their shows.Often times they perform, "Hot Like Fire" (written by Caroline Jomama), with a video of Otis playing on a large screen monitor.MOFRO and released the album Country Ghetto.Grey has said recently that for many years people have come up to him after shows and inquired as to when he was going to do a solo album.MOFRO,' a subtle yet telling shift," says Gaines.But for me the only thing that made it enough of an issue to address was that this is the diary of my life, so to speak, laid out musically.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Hmm what could a band called JJ Grey and Mofro be?Well I pulled out a cd from a friend and really liked what I heard.Most people in Pocatello haven't really heard what this band has to offer.We arrived at the Stephen's Performing Arts Center and there were a ton of cars in the lot.Maybe it was me that was out of the loop on the music scene.As the concert started I looked around and notice a lot of empty seats.JJ Grey and Mofro started their first set with a few of their older tracks from other albums.The college kids sitting close to us were singing the words and dancing in the aisles.You could feel the vibe in the auditorium.Everyone around me was hyped up and getting into JJ's awesome lyrics.People clapping along with the beat.JJ Grey and Mofro and this is what I came up with.But for me the second best part of the evening was the drummer.Between JJ's sweet voice and the pounding beat of those drums I was transported into the world of JJ Grey and Mofro.Someone I could and sit and talk with forever.We shared stories of his years growing up and the real world he lived in.Hay, What a great night.All those who missed this great night you really missed a great thing.To bad we have this nice Stevens Performing Art center and the place wasn't even half full.We need to start thinking outside of our boxes Pocatello.It had a little bit of country and little bit of jazz and a whole lot of fellings and fun to it.The next time the band JJ Grey and Mofro will be in town I hope that getting front row seats will be very hard as that will mean that Pocatello woke up and went out of their comfort zone and then they will also have one of the best experience of their life.Must say that the mood even got to me and I had to get up and shake a little thanks to one of the ladies who came and was up moving to the music and it felt good to fell young again.Lets start supporting this great city we live in and get out and do things that are down right fun!!!!!! |
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