Ayron Jones and the Way - Hiawatha Playfield, Seattle WA - August 20, 2015

[Seattle, WA] Concert in a park in West Seattle – kids playing, adults picnic-ing. Nice. The best thing about the show was the complete disjunction between the paper’s description of the band and the reality. They were described, see below, as some cross between hip-hop (because they’re black???) and punk (because they are black yet use guitars???). They were Ben Harper, blues rock – did a ton of Jimi covers. It’s possible they were toning things down for the setting. ….. “Seattle guitarist and frontman Ayron Jones (Eh-Rahn), has become one of Seattle’s hottest up-and-comers with his brand of Seattle Rock. Jones has taken a hybrid style of guitar playing, in which the chord and solo are played at the same time, and infused the raw energy of punk with the inner-city attitude of Hip-Hop. The result is a soulful reincarnation of that iconic Seattle sound. Think, Stevie Ray Vaughan meets Nirvana.”

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