WSLR Presents: Feathered Mason & Jennifer Jane Nicely

5500 Saint Elmo Avenue,Chattanooga TN 37409

22 July, 2022

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The Woodshop Listening Room Presents: Feathered Mason & Jennifer Jane Nicely July 22nd, 2022 Doors @ 5 Music @ 8 BEER + WINE + FOOD + LIVE MUSIC -------------------------------------------------------------- Feathered Mason is the (sometimes) solo project of longtime musician Eric Davis, born a couple decades too late to a French mother and Midwestern father deep in the heart of Illinois. While early influences were steeped in blues and psychedelic rock, regular trips to France listening to his twin uncles sing harmony & strum guitar secured a place in his heart for folk/roots music. His latest album "Bow and Arrow Days" is premised on a formative memory snippet from circa 1991, which became the driving force of this eclectic home recording. "I wanted to go way back there and make recording music a homemade art project again. I wanted to feel like I was off-roading in an older farm machine with raw minimal essentials (smelling gas fumes:) rather than a spaceship or high luxury vehicle which "real" studios can feel like to me. I wanted to return to the work table each time for this album with pencil, scissors, razors, glue, pins, rubberbands, wax paper and boombox with cassettes. I was hoping to exercise those old ways and go it alone on this one for the sake of remembering how to just mess around with a few tools and see what can be done..." Videos: 1.(182) Feathered Mason performs "Bow and Arrow Days" at Moccasin Creek Festival - YouTube 2.(182) Feathered Mason @John Hartford Memorial Festival - "Predawn Glow" by Feathered Mason - YouTube 3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjuBsfPFCk Links: https://featheredmason.bandcamp.com/ www.featheredmason.com featheredmason (@featheredmasoncam) • Instagram photos and videos ================================================ Tennessee songwriter Jennifer Jane Niceley pens jazz-hued folk with deep roots in southern soul and western twang — like a campfire ballad sung as sweet and slow as a torch song, with a singular voice that can transcend time and place… Her latest collaboration with musical artist/producer Feathered Mason and multi-instrumentalist Jason Goforth marks over two decades of releasing deeply sensitive and strikingly original material. Preternaturally under the radar, she’s stepped in and out of the music world, torn between pursuing success and the farming life where she grew up in East Tennessee. Previous albums include the lush sounds of Luminous in 2008 produced by Joe McMahan (Kevin Gordon, Luella and the Sun), and the bare and eclectic Angels, Demons, Red-Tail Hawks with Eric McConnell (Loretta Lynn, Todd Snider, Sierra Ferrell) in 2017. The expansive, sonic shift of Built to Last, the Grateful Dead cover and new single from her upcoming album Not Lost, is an exciting twist in a story that is spiraling around again for a new beginning. Jennifer currently performs as a trio with Feathered Mason (Eric Davis) and Jason Goforth. You can catch them more often than not at her “honky tonk” called The Tack Room, located in old milk barn at her family’s farm in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Although most of her previous recordings (some released under Jennifer Niceley and more recently Jennifer Jane Niceley) are streaming on all music platforms, she is releasing Not Lost exclusively on Bandcamp under her and Eric Davis’ new label and production company Pink Light Productions. https://jenniferjaneniceley.bandcamp.com Website: www.jenniferniceleymusic.com Link for downloadable press shots HERE Contact: [email protected]; [email protected] "It might seem premature to call this Nashville singer's first full-length a break-through, but that's very much the way it sounds...Moody, restive, and purposeful, Niceley has made one of the most purely beautiful records of the year." Roy Kasten - NO DEPRESSION magazine (review of Luminous) ______ “Her lovely, gossamer voice walks a fine line between self-possession and vulnerability, at times suggesting what it might sound like if Portishead’s Beth Gibbons made a country album.” Jack Silverman — of Nashville Scene and Premier Guitar (review of Angels, Demons, Red-Tail Hawks)