Artist description Jonathan Pointer is a son of Missouri. Raised and educated by Methodists, his early years were spent "drawing pictures, playing the trombone and making stuff up.” He has been a soda-jerk and a dog-catcher, pumped gas and delivered pizzas. He has sold everything from shoes to meat on a spiritual quest that has taken him from state run mental facilities to Carnegie Hall. It is from such life experiences that Pointer draws the frequently off-centered, always provocative and often surprisingly touching stories that are his music. The world he has created includes a town where all the babies smoke and a compound inhabited by strychnine-drinking snake handlers. It is a world of buming scarecrows, innocent men and yard sales; of bar-room poets, paranoid lovers, and tattooed women. For better or worse, he says "it's hardly the utopian legacy our parents had in mind.” Still, it is not darkness that accentuates his work, but rather the insight his lyrics yield, often using wry humor to lighten the burden of deeper meaning.If his songs are the sum of his experiences, he is also a product of influence-shaped by artists that include Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and Richard Thompson. With such a diverse collection of mentors, it is no surprise Pointer's music is an eclectic mix of folk, country, jazz and blues with a whiff of European tradition. Now, with the creation of the cd "scarecrows burn," an artist's world is revealed to a larger world, where all of us see things, but few illustrate life as well as Jonathan Pointer. John Hughes, The Orange County Register, Orange County,CA FOR INFORMATION,CONTACT:jonathan@jonathanpointer.com or visit: www.jonathanpointer.com

Music Style eclectic acoustic roots music

Musical Influences tom waits, richard thompson, randy newman

Similar Artists TBA

Artist History troubled

Group Members jonathan pointer-guitars,vocals,accordian,harmonica,hammond b-3 organ. jud dean-piano,percussion. carol sharar-violin,viola. bryan hicks-acoustic bass. andy resnick-mandolin. richard bell-accordian,hammond b-3 organ. doug morrow-drums. michael visceglia-electric bass

Instruments acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, electric bass, mandolin, violin, accordian, hammond b-3 organ, harmonica, drums

Albums scarecrows burn

Press Reviews "…one of the best CDs to come down the singer-songwriter pike in quite a while. …deeply poetic."ACOUSTIC GUITAR "For true music lovers, pointer is a godsend." PERFORMING SONGWRITER An Americana folk hero. THE WASHINGTON POST Pointer doesn't disappoint. A truly impressive debut. DIRTY LINEN

Location New York City, NY - USA

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