Sugar
Jones: Bring Your Own Insanity Baton Rouge Advocate, October 19, 2001 By
JOHN WIRT The Washington, D.C.-based Sugar Jones is south Louisianian Chad Thevenot's music vehicle. A singer, songwriter, guitarist and arranger, Thevenot specializes in a hybrid funk-rock sound based in '70s-era rhythm and blues and funk. In Thevenot's beyond-the-ordinary Bring Your Own Insanity, wah-wah guitar plus bass performed by New Orleans' George Porter Jr. run beside trumpet solos and Indian riffs played by a cellist. You might call the Eastern-spiced "A Chemical Dream" rajah rock. "New Enemy" has a harder sound, something like Nine Inch Nails with funk but no screaming or heavy electronics. On the R&B side, there's "You Must Be Heaven," featuring Thevenot's not-so-successful falsetto. While former Beatle George Harrison isn't someone often mentioned as a musical influence, the oddly titled "Rabbits Are Trouble" and its slide guitar are surprisingly Harrison-like. Propelled by Porter's bass, '70s funk rises again in "Too Many." In a few songs, especially "Sanctuary In Your Arms" and "The City Never Sleeps," Thevenot's nasal whine resembles that of another south Louisiana rock singer, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra. Given Thevenot's knack for inventive arrangements, his singing may be his weakest link. Sugar Jones' Bring Your Own Insanity is available from Amazon.com, CDBaby.com and LouisianasMusic.com. |
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You might call the Eastern-spiced "A Chemical Dream" rajah rock |
