Tennessee songwriter Jennifer Jane Niceley’s latest collaboration with visionary 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 living a quiet life close to the land.
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” and “Flight Patterns” is a harbinger of what to expect on her upcoming album, Not Lost (release date July 19, 2024). The third single, “Desert Dreams”, (released in April) features a powerful symphonic backdrop by pedal steel player Jason Goforth as well as the impeccable touch of Clint Mullican (Watchhouse) on upright bass.
Feathered Mason is a longtime musician and award winning songwriter born a couple decades too late to a French mother and Midwestern father deep in the heart of Illinois. While early influences such as Hendrix, Zeppelin and Black Sabbath shaped his early blues psychedelic rock sound on guitar, regular trips to France listening to his twin uncles sing harmony & strum guitar secured a place in his heart for folk and music. Many a band and decades later, after also emerging himself in the bluegrass community on banjo then finding his own slide of the country blues hill fingerpick’n on resonator guitars the Feathered Mason has taken flight! Now calling East Tennessee home – a true homecoming for an American roots lover & artist .
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