Blues Rocker Jonathon Long Drops New Single “Savior’s Face”

Jonathon Long

Jonathon Long is pleased to announce the release of his first single “Savior’s Face” off of his upcoming album, Parables of a Southern Man, Long’s second release for Samantha Fish’s Wild Heart Records out on July 2, 2021. Like his previous self-titled album, Long’s sophomore effort was also produced by Fish.

Having established himself as a blues artist from Baton Rouge, LA under “Jonathon ‘Boogie’ Long, he’s toured with BB King, Chris Duarte and Kenny Neal, Jonathon Long is a virtuoso guitar player and a soulful, truly great vocalist, a versatile entertainer and original songwriter.

Long excels at the high-intensity blues-rock format with emotional expression, both vocally, lyrically and on guitar. You can hear Louisiana calling in Long’s control of dynamics, and his conversational manner of playing, that front porch penchant for telling multiple stories in a single solo. As a sheer force player, Long belongs in the company of the masters. The bells he rings come closer to Albert Ayler’s than Johnny B. Goode’s. Yet he can be as elegant and soulful as B.B. King on an R&B jump tune or a ballad.

Jonathon Long’s band includes Long (vocals, guitar), Nicholas David (keys), Charlie Wooton (bass), and Scott Graves (drums.)

Watch “Savior’s Face”

 
What really sets Jonathon apart is his songwriting and singing, which has evolved out of the blues canon into his own version of Americana, a place emerging from but not tied to any genre, too personal to be anything but unique.

The Baton Rouge-born musician was a child prodigy who was playing guitar by age six and started performing at blues jams in the Baton Rouge club Swamp Mama’s when he was ten years old, alongside local legends Kenny Neal, Rudy Richard and Lil’ Ray Neal. When Long was 14 his parents gave him permission to go out on the road with Louisiana Blues icon Henry Turner. Paying bass in the band, Long learned the ropes on the juke joint circuit and learned how to please a crowd on his own.

Jonathon joined New Orleans icon Luther Kent’s blues band and began performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where he has become a local fixture. In 2011 at the age of 22, going under the name Jonathon “Boogie” Long he won the “King of the Blues” award for best unsigned Blues guitar player in America and in 2012 released his first album, an impressive showcase of his blues guitar talents. His second album Trying to Get There showed Long growing as a songwriter and singer, a transition he’s completed on the new album.

His songs are complex and varied on Parables of a Southern Man, his lyrics revealing emotional depth. Themes of alienation, broken communication, existential dread, aspiration and dejection exist alongside more hopeful sentiments in a mix familiar to the balance Warren Haynes brings to his world view.

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