Sheldon Gomberg
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: SHELDON GOMBERG and FORD PIER  are collaborators through me, on the “All You Get” record we discuss in this Pop Oracle session. Sheldon is mixing the record in LA in the present. Ford recorded most of it in Vancouver in early 2002. The interim feels like the eye of a tornado. I’ve […]

Sheldon Gomberg
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Andras Jones

From ANDRAS JONES: SHELDON GOMBERG mixed “All You Get”. He’s also worked with Rickie Lee Jones, Inara George, Eleni Mandell, Peter Case, Dave Alvin, Jackson Brown, Sorry About Everything, Tracy Thielen & Candypants. With his question for The Pop Oracle he’s attempting to rig his sync but synchronicity is more slippery than even a slippery […]

Sheldon Gomberg
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Tobias The Owl

From ANDRAS JONES: SHELDON GOMBERG is the producer of TOBIAS THE OWL‘s new record. He’s also a cat who has come up several times on the show, particularly in conversations with Eleni Mandell and Inara George. We didn’t get into it on this episode but in talking with Sheldon beforehand I realized he’s also worked […]

Ford Pier
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: We draw to the close of our Pop Oracle session with FORD PIER peering into the oracle of his own songs for the answer to his question, inspired by the Marcel Proust questionnaire. The day before we recorded this session in Vancouver, the city of Toronto experienced a random act of violence […]

All You Get

A record full of tasty contradictions. AVAILABLE NOW from: SPOTIFY APPLE MUSIC iTUNES AMAZON MUSIC TIDAL YOUTUBE LP’s and CD’s can be purchased at live events. T-shirts are available here. The arrangements from Ford Pier are simultaneously ornate and sparse, transforming Jones’s intimate and often funny solo performances into sometimes sweet, sometimes daring, pop nuggets. […]

Sarah Skinner
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Andras Jones

From ANDRAS JONES: SARAH SKINNER is on fire. Perpetually. She’s the photographer who took the pictures which adorn the “All You Get” album that Ford Pier arranged, Marshall Thompson restored, Sheldon Gomberg mixed, Greg Allen designed, and Peter Jesperson oversaw the pressing of into vinyl. Sarah’s more interested in peppering me with relationship questions than […]

Amy Allison
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Don Heffington

From ANDRAS JONES: AMY ALLISON joins us for a Pop Oracle session with DON HEFFINGTON about 9 years after her father Mose Allison was on the show. Don, Amy and Sheldon Gomberg are currently putting the finishing touches on a Mose Allison tribute record that features a duet between Amy and Elvis Costello on Mose’s […]

Andras Jones
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Don Heffington

From ANDRAS JONES: DON HEFFINGTON is a serious cat. Click the link for a list of his illustrious associations, or just hang with us for 8 musical divinations with his friends PAUL ZOLLO, AMY ALLISON, DAVE ALVIN, JILL MARKEY, PAUL BODY & CHUCK E. WEISS. I start things off with a question about the irrational […]

Andras Jones
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: I recently spent a week in Vancouver, BC recording episodes with three great Canadian songwriters; Sarah Wheeler, Geoff Berner and this week’s guest FORD PIER. Ford and I go way back into the last millenium when he was touring with Veda Hille and I was touring with my own band, The Previous, […]

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