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Another day for the old ways

Music for your inner grifter:

Jahamericana makes me feel like a grifter in a movie who's been getting kicked around a while, but has stumbled on something that will change his life. The perfect con, the perfect-imperfect woman, news of a rigged horse race. It leads you to feel that feeling good about life is a guilty pleasure. That salvation isn't always far from a barstool. I wish people heard J's songs when they saw me walking down the street. It'd bee a hell of a soundtrack, the right soundtrack....JDB

we hope you like Jahamericana too, and thanks for giving us a fair hearing

an americana bio as written by my friends:

Singer-songwriter J Shogren is celebrating the release of his new CD, Jahamericana (JAHA! Records). This raucous collection comprises many styles from roots to country to blues. His gruff voice and lyrics join his old Gibson L-48 guitar to get you off the bar stool and dancing. The songs come from a life lived in loud proportions. His adventures have taken him from days as a trapper to an endowed professor. J splits his time between Centennial (Wyoming) and Umea (Sweden). And as wild as it sounds, there he sits as the King of Sweden's Professor. Even more outrageous, he was a party to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the IPCC for their work on climate change. Now that is a lot of living packed into the 14 songs on Jahamericana.

"Top 25 cds of 2007. Great album !!! Where have you been all those years ?? 4 & 1/ 2 stars" -- F Braeken, e-magazine ROOTSTIME.

Top 10 cds of 2007 -- Rev JJ Hawk of the Plastic Pals (and my buddy, I must confess)

Your cd is just amazing! -- DJ R Pieters, Somewhere Between on Internet Radiostation Golden Flash (www.goldenflash.be)

"...Excellent acoustic, sit-down Berryesque rock and roll." -- J Carducci, former SST records dude, infamous rock-and-roll writer and critic

"a song writer with many edges, all of them loveable" -- Country Home, Germany (www.iwde.de)

"...a lively old school new Americana singer-songwriter, who is unafraid of the polka, both to sing and to dance." -- J Shogren, about his future accordion teacher

For more information on J Shogren, his music, performances, reviews, and whole lot more,

please visit his websites at:

jshogren.com

www.myspace.com/jshogren

email: jahajunti@hotmail.com

For information about booking, and other such related matters, mail jahajunti[at]hotmail.com

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