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October 29, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Aron Jones, Is this really you Jones?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sir?

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Let's go. Do you know what a huge fan I
am of you, dude? When I saw that you're coming
through to the Webster in Hartford. Great bill, by the way,
A bunch of great artists on that bill. But my
belief is you should all riten. You should already have
in your hand one grammy.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Man, I really appreciate that, brother, really doing hes love.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I think Chronicles of the Kid is the best. And I'm,
you know, a rock and roll guy. I was covering
rock and roll in the nineties for Circus Magazine and
Cream and Hit Parade. I've been covering rock for for decades. Man,
I think Chronicles of the Kid is the best rock
and roll record of the twenty twenties.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Dare I say, man, I appreciate that? Do that's amazing?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
True story. Uh so, but we're a ways out from that.
That was twenty twenty three. I got my hands on it.
You know, God blessed the feed sometimes because you came
to my attention. You popped up the you know, God
blessed the algorithm. One day. You know, I just got
a taste of blood in the water and I'm like,
who is this? What is this? What is happening here?

(01:16):
And on the strength of that alone, you know, I
sought out the record and just every song stands out.
And I was not surprised when I went and did
a little homework and found out you're you're actually a
Seattle guy, right, Seattle born and raised?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, man born Washington Man.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
You mind my my asking how old you are? Oh,
I'm nine, so you're thirty nine. I'm just trying to
have you know, one thing I was trying to do.
I've got a nineteen year old son and he's been
listening to the record with me a lot too. We
just love it. We're gonna be at the show too,
you know. I tried to have the like who am

(01:55):
I hearing here? Like, like, who are the influences? They're
not that glare, you know. So I was wondering when
I read the Seattle thing, It's like, maybe he's a kid.
Is there a little brune in there? I don't know
if I hear that the way Ron you're your influences?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, yeah, I mean, like you know, I'm grow up
in the Seattles in the nineties, you know, in two thousands,
and so I mean I think the of course, like
the grunge air bands were definitely top of my list
when it comes to influences, it's something that you kind
of couldn't get away from. So I think that comes
as like no surprise that that kind of just seeps
out of the music that comes from here, you know. Yeah,

(02:33):
and then you know guitar heroes. You know, Jimmy Hendrix, me,
Jimmy Hendrew from the neighborhood. So that's I put jim
at the top of that. Yeah, but you know, listening
to Steve Rayvaughn, Jimmy and you know Albert King, Bbie
and you know old school blues catch too, man. So
I mean it's it's kind of this this amalgamation of
like of you know, hard Seattle rock and blues and soul.

(02:57):
You know, you throw Michael Jackson in there to R
and B.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, I mean there's definitely melody. You know, every song's
got a hook. And you know, I don't know if
those are bad words to the true artists, to me,
they or not. I mean I want a hook. I
want a melody, you know, I want I want a
chorus that I can sing along to and I feel
like you give it to us on almost every track
on Chronicles, and I don't feel like grunge really did that.

(03:24):
I don't feel like Hendricks really did either. I said
to my son just yesterday we were listening to you
had posted a clip of you just with an acoustic
guitar recently doing a number, and I'm like, I'm just
still trying to get a handle on influences here. I'm like,
there might be a little Hendrix in the way he's
playing guitar. And my son goes, Dad, don't that's just

(03:44):
being racist. I'm like, that's I'm like, what do you do?
You know that's he just played that with a little
Hendricks flourishing. But that was only in one trick. And
I don't know if you know which one. I mean too,
it's something you posted recently.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, I know what you mean. I
think I think it's like a cover of Ajo or
something like that, like somethin yeh might have been, or
we're doing something. But either way, like like when I
think of my playing stop, I mean, like, you know,
what I really picked from Jimmy was the way that
he would play like this, these inverted like chords and

(04:22):
souls at the same time, you know, yeah, yeah, and
and so like I really did, like take a lot
from what Hendricks laid down, you know, and all of
my style, like playing with my thumb over the finger boards,
you know, from my bass notes, like that's definitely a
Hendricks thing too, you know, something like I was highly
influenced by by Jimmy, but also like so many other

(04:45):
cats I could throw men like Steve I and yeah,
you know, just a little bit of Jangle Harever now
and again. And there's a lot of cats I could
throw in there that probably don't fit that molde.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, and that's how I feel. I mean, there are
a lot of songs from from Take Me Away, Uh
to I don't know if Blood in the Water, but
just a lot. There's a couple of tracks on chronicles
that radio friendly is the right term, like I could yeah,
you know, absolutely they could. They could be top forty songs,

(05:17):
I believe, Like they're not the kind of songs where
I had a couple of them anyway, Aaron where I
don't see Mom, I don't see Mom and dad screaming
turn that down. They are melodic three minute you know,
rock anthems. Yeah, man, yeah, absolutely so. Do you know
what my favorite song is? Though? On chronicles? Can you

(05:38):
tell how you? I might be gushing too much for
you to you know.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
What it was? It was it blood in the Water?
Was your favorite song?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, no, it's up there, but that isn't it. It's
it may surprise you, but it's filthy.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh, I love that song, man, my favorite songs.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Phil Filthy is a down and dirty song lyrically, I
mean where you're at lyrically in that one, And you're right,
And that's the one that kind of broke the mold
on the record too, where I'm kind of like, yeah,
I can't get a handle on this guy, you know,
because there is Yeah, there's a certain flavor to that song.
Never never mind subject matter. Although you can turn a

(06:17):
phrase with the best of them too, you know, with
my chuck tease on rhyming that with black Lace song,
I'm all about it, you know, Hey, Ron, don't get
it twisted. Just because I'm a father doesn't mean filthy
doesn't work for me.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
That song is great, you know me both from a
dad too, man.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, how old is
your little one?

Speaker 2 (06:43):
My little ones. Let's see my order is twelve twelve
nine six oh too.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, yeah, family man to put You're out on the
road right now, opening with Blackstone Cherry who I saw
Geez going back a long ways. I love their song
what was it White Trash Millionaire? I think was one
of us about that? Yeah, tell me about the bill
how to come to be and we're getting you here
at the website nice Saturday night show man, Hartford, Connecticut

(07:15):
at the Webster Theater, great room too, very intimate room.
Really going to be able to see you play and
I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah man. You know, I worked with the Black sel
Chair quite a bit overseas. I haven't open for them,
and you know, we did a stadium tour with them
in the UK and then we opened for them and
clubs and theaters all over the the over Europe. Done
a couple of shows here in the US to get
it too. So this is like a lot of time
friends with these guys. Yeah, you know, the opportunity came

(07:45):
up because they kind of already had an opener with
them thirty Roses, which is actually a newer banded maker
that I got to take them out more recently and definitely.
I mean I think the whole bill just kind of
falls in that classic rock bang man. So it's been
really cool. Shoo.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, where do you fall in the line? I know,
I just want to make sure because I'm going no disrespect,
I've seen those guys a couple of times. I can't
wait to see them too, but I'm going there to
see you. Are you first on the bill? Middle on
the bill? Where you are?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
We're first? Or three? So we go over before them? Yes?

Speaker 1 (08:15):
How how long are we get? How how much? Aaron,
don't was it twenty It's not twenty minutes? Is it?
How long are we getting?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
No? I think I have to I have to check again, man,
I think we get about four years.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
So yeah, I can't wait to check it out.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's a good chunk of time.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah. Now, I know you're at the tail end too, right,
I mean Chronicles of the Kids a twenty twenty three release.
You almost don't look follow up? Where are you at
with a follow up? Or you maybe you haven't even
started warning? All?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Where are we at?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
No, I've been, I've been. I've been courting for the
part of year. Were closer, you know, we probably side saying,
and we caught up three or four more songs for
really call it a rap, you know, but yeah, it's close, man,
and it's a really good record. I think this next
record I'm working on is really poetic and try to

(09:06):
capture some more sounds. No, not not quite not quite
nothing nothing. I'm really the share just yet. But you
know it is for me. This record is a reflection
of a lot of different things, the evolutions of a
different thoughts and ideas I've had over time. It's just
like an American and you know, some things that reflect

(09:27):
the time period. But also like hopefully speaking to the
heart of matt you know, not and not you know,
or woman or whatever you call yourself these days. You know,
it doesn't matter, like just speak to the hearts of people,
you know, and trying to, I don't know man, appeal
to the latter side of things, you know, Like I
believe that people are people are born with this urge

(09:53):
to take care of each other, you know, it's just
in you, you know, And so I feel like this
record kind of taps in that space a little bit,
you know, and that like I want people to really
appeal to their own humanity and think about what's really
going on and you know, without reacting. And that's kind
of that's kind of what this record is about. For
three minutes, it's been about not only just take telling

(10:13):
my truth, man, but just like I've gotten the follow
up with people over the last you know, five years
of my life, especially just touring the nation and the world,
you know, and you get a chance to like see
a lot of different things. You get a chance to
kind of step back and look at people almost like
like space cadet. You know, I'm seeing so many people
mentioning different kinds of people. I can step back and go, wow,
like this is what we really are.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
And so with that comes like, you know, my urge
to want to help us as a as a species
of the people all that. Like I'm I'm urged to
want to like do what I can to like talk
some sense in the people. And I feel like this
record is kind of it steps to that. You know.
I mean, I heal everything, but you'll get people to
step out the side that they need to be on

(10:57):
one side of the spects more another and realize that
everything everything you know.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, and you're a compelling performer too, particularly when stripped down.
When it's you and a guitar, Yeah, sure, you'll open
it up and you're mesmerized by how you're you're playing
that thing. But when the lyrics begin, they begged to
be paid attention to. So I look forward to here.
I mean much as like I said, much as I
love the what went into Filthy and the message of

(11:24):
Filthy the music like you just described right there, You're
the kind of guy who can convey that too, So
I'm really intrigued and looking forward to this follow up.
Any of the new songs getting performed in this set
we're going to get here in Hartford, you must be saying, hey,
it's time for a new one. It must be one
or two you got in the set.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
No, you know, definitely been a conversation we have. I
think we really about putting some new stuff in there.
And you know, probably by the time we get the
Heart for will probably probably have something worked in there.
So I hope we shall see. But it definitely was
a conversation we have befo we're taking off, It's like
if we want to start performing some of the newer

(12:04):
stuff and let's do it. So you know, we're kind
of we're kind of we're kind of having a conversation
and hopefully we can work everything in and get it
some rehearsal time in to play some newer stuff where you.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Get I love it, uh aon Aaron Jones and again
a Saturday night show Blackstone Cherry the Webster Theater in Hartford.
The record is Chronicles of the Kid. Every song is
a banger. I'm so glad we connected on Instagram the
way that we did and we were able to pull
this off. And hopefully I'll be able to say hello

(12:34):
to you at the show too. I can't wait to
see you.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Man, all right, brother, Yeah, me too, man, I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Keep on rocking, all right, man. See what
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