Adam Paul Jones is an alt-country, folk and blues artist who was born across the ditch in Kiwiland and raised in his Australian family in Sydney and the mid-north coast of NSW. Adam began his ‘show business’ career with his own fully decked out puppet theatre at the age of just 8 and he would put on creative puppet shows for family and visiting friends. Thankfully, he moved on to drama lessons at the Sydney Independent Theatre Children’s Drama School. He appeared in a several plays, some with his father who was an English History and Drama teacher at the local high school (and taught Mel Gibson). Music came next with lessons in classical and folk guitar. By the age of 12 he had taughthimself to play and sing hundreds of songs, including about 50 Beatles songs. Encouragedby his parents, and much to their relief, the puppet show was retired in favour of concerts forfamily and friends. Adam’s wide range of influences include The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, DireStraits, Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen, through to great Australian bands from the 70sthrough to the present such as Kasey Chambers, Paul Kelly, INXS, Midnight Oil, Crowded House, Hunters and Collectors, Australian Crawl, Mondo Rock, Tame Impala, The War On Drugs, The Drones and Courtney Barnett. Adam is now a dedicated songwriter, writing about 8 songs per month and constantly honing his performance and songwriting skills. In August 2018 Adam makes the big move to Melbourne from The Entrance on the Central Coast of NSW where he regularly performed. Adam’s debut 12-track album ‘Little Death’ was released and distributed worldwide by Foghorn Records on 29th of September 2018, with distribution and publishing agreements in place with Foghorn. This album which traverses genres of blues, rock, folk and country, has been very well received. On the 2nd of June 2018 Adam went back to Damien Gerard Studios in Balmain Sydney and recorded an acoustic version of Little Death, stripped back to just lead vocal, acoustic guitar and some lap steel slide guitar provided by the talented Slide Milligan of Wyong. On 17th of August Foghorn Records releases Adam’s debut single ‘I Want Love - acoustic version’ which will be distributed worldwide and a music video has been shot to be released simultaneously. Then on the anniversary eve of Little Death, on 28 September 2018, an Anniversary Edition of Little Death with new album artwork and photos, and a bonus acoustic full version of the album, will be released to the world. Plans are already afoot for a double album release in 2019 of 25 songs written over 3 months from May to June 2018, and presented in the order they were written. This will be a stripped back alt-country style album with a lot of blues and rock feels, featuring acoustic guitar, electric guitar, acoustic piano, drums and bass.
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