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JJ GREY & MOFRO - Olustee TourBlues Rock / Southern Rock / Soul / Funk
Opener: Cedric Burnside
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Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm
Tickets: $49.50 - $69.50 (plus sales tax and service fee)
VIPTickets: $219.50
VIP:Preshow JJ Grey & Mofro 'Olustee Tour' VIP Experience
Includes:
* Premium reserved ticket to see JJ Grey & Mofro live
* Invitation to the pre-show JJ Grey & Mofro soundcheck
* Exclusive opportunity to cast a vote to help JJ pick the setlist for the night
* Meet& Greet that includes a photo opportunity with JJ Grey*
* Exclusive VIP merchandise bundle:
* Limited edition tour poster signed by JJ Grey
* Commemorative VIP laminate & matching lanyard
* JJGrey ‘Olustee Tour’ tote bag
* ‘Olustee’ notebook & pen
* Priority venue entry
* Early access to merchandise before doors open to the public
“Impassioned singing, riff-based Southern rock, coldblooded swamp funk and sly Memphis soul…Rich, funky blues celebrate life’s mostfundamental joys. Grey is a singer-songwriter with unforced talent and deepfeeling.” –The New York Times
“A deeply-rooted blend of southern-fried rock and swamp funk…richly evocativelyrics...plainspoken, blue-collar American music.” –NPR
“The swami of swamp rock...JJ Grey is a North Florida sage and purveyor of thefunkiest swamp rock the world has ever heard…chicken-scratch guitar andbone-deep songs.” –Oxford American
According to musician, singer and artist JJ Grey, “Thebest songs I’ve ever written, I never wrote. They wrote themselves. The bestshow I ever played, played itself and had little to do with me or talent. Tome, those things come from the power of an honest moment, and I guess I’mtrying to live in that power and not force life to cough up what I want.”
Since his first album, Blackwater, back in 2001, Grey has been releasing deeply moving,masterfully written, funkified rock and front porch Southern soul music. Now,with his new album, Olustee—his tenth and firstin nine years, and the first he has self-produced—Grey is back, singing hispersonal stories with universal themes of redemption, rebirth, hard luck, andinner peace. With his music, Grey also celebrates good times with lifelong friends,oftentimes mixing the carnal with the cerebral in the very same song. Fueled byhis vividly detailed, timeless originals spun from his own life and experiencesin the Northern Florida swampland, Grey’s gritty baritone drips with honestpassion and testifies with a preacher’s foot-pounding fervor.
With Olustee, JJ Grey has once again pushed the boundaries of hisown creative musical, lyrical and vocal talents, delivering an album that isdestined to become a stone-cold classic. Many of the songs are steeped in themythical Southern stories of his ancestral Florida home and filled with peoplefrom JJ’s life. The songs overflow with the sights and sounds of the region astold through the eyes of a poet and sung with pure, unvarnished soul. Thealbum’s eleven songs range from the introspective opener The Sea to the raucous,celebratory first radio single, Wonderland, to an escape from an out-of-control wildfire in thetitle track, to the inward-looking closer, DeeperThan Belief. Singing of his own personal triumphs andstruggles, his hopes and desires, his friends and family, Grey’s message issimple and strong: respect the natural world and always try to live in themoment. And never forget the importance of having a good time.
Grey made his recording debut in 2001 with Blackwater, following up in2004 with Lochloosa. Both albums werereleased on the Fog City label under the name Mofro, a moniker the young Greychose to describe his music and sound while still working his day job at alumberyard. He has since used the word to name his band of world-class players.In 2007, Grey signed with Alligator Records and released a string of fivepopular and successful albums: 2007’s Country Ghetto, 2008’s Orange Blossoms, 2010’s Georgia Warhorse, 2011’s live CD/DVD Brighter Days and 2013’s This River. Ol’ Glory was released on theProvogue label in 2015. Throughout this amazing run of releases, press, radioand years of touring helped catapult JJ Grey & Mofro further into themainstream.
JJ Grey & Mofro have played countless festivals,including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Austin City Limits Festival, ByronBay Blues Festival (Australia), Montreal Jazz Festival and Fuji Rock (Japan).Over the course of his career, Grey has shared stages with the likes of LennyKravitz, B.B. King, The Allman Brothers Band, The Black Crowes, Los Lobos, JeffBeck, Ben Harper, Booker T. Jones, Mavis Staples, and many others. Grey and hisband continue to play over 75 shows a year across the U.S. and around theworld.
JJ’s songs have appeared in films and on television,including on HouseOf Cards, CriminalMinds, Bones, House, Flashpoint, Crash, FridayNight Lights, TheGlades, TheDeadliest Catch and in films including The Hoot and The Gray Man. In November 2009,JJ wrote his first film score for the critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winningdocumentary TheGood Soldier, which appeared in theatres and on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
Grey, an avid outdoorsman, is a dedicated fisherman, askilled visual artist (he has designed and drawn the cover art on all of hisalbums), an expert surfer and he holds an honorary position on the board of theAngler Action Foundation, dedicated to the protection of coastal fish and fishhabitat. He has written passionately and articulately about his love for theuntrammeled environment of his North Florida home and continues to advocate forits preservation.
From his early days playing cover music behind chickenwire at a west side Jacksonville juke joint, to playing sold-out shows at someof the largest venues and music festivals in the world, JJ Grey has alwaysdelivered his soul-honest truths. Now, with Olustee, JJ Grey & Mofro will bring their music directlyto fans as they hit the road for a massive months-long tour across the countryand throughout the world. AllMusicsays JJ Grey’s music is “as authentic as the groundunder your feet because that’s where it comes from—just before it moves, simplyand directly, through the body of the listener, into the human heart.”
Bio written by Marc Lipkin
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