Jonni Greth

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Jonni Greth's music is important. You just don't know it yet. Having played various festivals and coffee shops in Alabama, Florida, and Chicago, Greth's cited influences run the gamut of songwriting titans from Leonard Cohen to Lou Reed to Bill Mallonee. I've been fortunate enough to be a fly on the wall at a few of Greth's local coffee-shop shows, and his words and music carry a spiritual weight that always leaves me transfixed (and my good friend Jason on the verge of tears). I know Jonni through a mutual friend and last night he somehow ended up in my bedroom (insert obligatory homoerotic joke here) armed merely with his guitar and a previously unrecorded song entitled "I Found Jihad." With a handful of friends serving as his small makeshift audience and a lone Shure SM58 microphone aimed in his direction, Jonni belted out a one-take gem wrought with both imperfection and undeniable beauty. It's the kind of song that makes the hair on your arm stand up. The kind of song that operates on a seldom accessed wavelength of unspoken truths. The kind of song I can't do justice with words and will cease in any attempts to do so. I just implore you to listen with an open heart. -- Capt. Obvious

Listen:
MP3: Jonni Greth - I Found Jihad (Demo)
MP3: Jonni Greth - Chariots Of Birmingham

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