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Way Down South

Johnny Ray Jones is back with the follow-up to Feet Back In The Door. The new highly anticipated second album Way Down South, an all-out celebration of Blues, Roots and Americana Soul, is the next chapter in the unfolding story of the Godson of Soul, Johnny Ray Jones, vocalist and songwriter from Los Angeles.

On this album, Johnny Ray brings back the top flight talent that made the first album so successful. Drummer Tony Braunagel (Phantom Blues Band, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Eric Burdon) and guitarist Johnny Lee Schell (Phantom Blues Band, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal) return to contribute their production magic and stellar musicianship. Featured are Mike Finnigan on Piano (Bonnie Raitt, Phantom Blue Band, Joe Cocker, Etta James), James "Hutch" Hutchinson on Bass (Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Joe Cocker), Joe Sublett on Tenor Sax (Phantom Blues Band, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt), Mark Pender on Trumpet (Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny) and Ritchie "La Bamba" Rosenberg on Trombone (Bruce Springsteen, South-side Johnny). Legendary guitarist Coco Montoya steps in once again with another searing spot, this time on the Johnny Ray Jones original "L.A. Fog."

Johnny Ray’s gravel-and-silk voice and the work of this stellar band put this album on the top shelf. With Way Down South, the Godson Of Soul Johnny Ray Jones & company are ready to celebrate these Americana Roots, Soul & Contemporary Blues.

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Feet Back in the Door

For Johnny Ray Jones, his debut album under his own name has been along time in the making. The longtime Southern California blues artist -- who's been called "the Godson of Soul" -- began the sessions for what would become Feet Back in the Door way back in 1995, when his friends Tony Braunagel, Marty Grebb, Joe Sublett and Johnny Lee Schell put together a group and recorded four songs that, for various reasons, remained unreleased.

"It's like a smorgasbord of Americana and blues," says Jones of the now-finished album, for which most recording took place in 2015 and 2016. Besides "Hole In Your Soul," a Sam "Bluzman" Taylor-penned song taken from the 1995 sessions, Feet Back in the Door features a varied set of newly waxed tunes that run the full gamut of blues styles. From the smoothly soulful R&B vibe of the title track (written by Jones' friend Arthur Adams) to the uptempo, Stones-style "Love-Itis" (recorded by Harvey Scales in the '60s and popularized by The J. Geils Band in the '70s) to the straight-ahead blues of Z.Z. Hill's "I'm a Blues Man" and the New Orleans sparkle of Leon Russell's "Hearts Have Turned to Stone," these are some of the deepest blues you're likely to hear, sung by a man who has truly lived them. Jones also contributed one original to the project: the gritty, lowdown "In the Heart of the City," which he says was inspired by "walking through downtown L.A. feeling invisible, being alone and missing my girl."