JJ Grey & Mofro
Singing with a passion and fervor directly influenced by the classic soul heroes, JJ Grey has written and recorded five albums of original songs steeped in the rhythm & blues, rock, and country soul of his native backwoods home outside Jacksonville, Florida. Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers and, in that spirit, he fills his songs with details that are at once vivid, personal and universal. After a decade of hard touring, he still spends eight months of the year on the road, bringing his music to a loyal, ever-growing, worldwide fanbase.
2010 sees the Alligator Records release of Grey’s latest labor of love, Georgia Warhorse, named after the resilient Southern lubber grasshopper. “Yellow and black, and tough like an old-school Tonka toy,” says JJ. “They seem so at ease with the world. Nothing seems to rile them. They’re in no hurry but they have a kind of resilience because they just keep coming back and I’ve always felt there was a lesson in there for me to learn.” Grey could be described in such words; his own career has grown over the course of a decade of winning over fans night after night. With the release of Georgia Warhorse and a relentless world tour to follow, Grey is set for a breakout year.
Commenting on his musical future, he says, “Life just makes itself up right in front of me and I just roll with it. All I know is to have the family I have, see the places I’ve been, meet the people I’ve met and to get to play music with some of the most talented folks around has got to make me the luckiest man alive.”
TWEETS
- The 2010 Lineup
- Amos Lee
- Angus & Julia Stone
- Ashley Cleveland & Kenny Greenberg
- Asleep at the Wheel
- Balmorhea
- Band of Horses
- Basia Bulat
- Beach House
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- Caitlin Rose
- Carolyn Wonderland
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- Chief
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- Donavon Frankenreiter
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- Elizabeth Mitchell
- First Aid Kit
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- Frank Turner
- GIVERS
- Gayngs
- Girls
- Gogol Bordello
- Gospel Stars
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Heavenly Voices
- JD & The Straight Shot
- JJ Grey & Mofro
- Jones Family Singers
- Kings Go Forth
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- LCD Soundsystem
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- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Two Door Cinema Club
- Two Tons of Steel
- Vampire Weekend
- Vonnegutt
- Warpaint
- Wesley Bray & The Disciples of Joy
- White Rabbits
- Yeasayer
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I've seen JJ Grey & MOFRO play in St. Louis & LA - fantastic every time.
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