Joe Jencks

Weights & Wings

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released 2016   Brother Sun Music

2016 Brother Sun Music

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The songs on Weights and Wings represent the evolution the group and its members have undergone. This is Brother Sun’s most emotionally immediate and musically diverse work yet, and it affirms the power of song to accompany each of us from grief and loss into new worlds of possibility, light and promise. Ranging from gospel and blues-inflected grooves through delicate ballads, with playful dips into zydeco and jazzy a cappella, the ensemble’s muscular and precise harmonies provide the optimism and uplift in every song. The CD’s instrumentation, creating textures from introspectively etheral to rocking and gritty, is rounded out by guest musicians Jon Carroll on piano, organ, and accordion, Chico Huff on bass, and Matt Scarano on drums and percussion.
Produced by Brother Sun
Engineered and Mixed by Dave Schonauer at Morning Star Studios, East Norriton, PA
Mastered by Randy LeRoy at Airshow Mastering, Takoma Park, MD
Additional Recording by Glenn Barratt at Morning Star Studios, East Norriton, PA
Musicians
Pat Wictor - vocals, guitars (slide, electric, acoustic)
Joe Jencks - vocals, bouzouki, guitar
Greg Greenway - vocals, guitar, piano
Additional Musicians
Chico Huff - bass
Matt Scarano - drums and percussion
Jon Carroll - organ, piano
Graphic Design - Leslie Lee
Photography - Jayne Toohey
Duplication - Andrew Ratshin at Northwest Disks
Booking - David tamulevich, Tamulevich Artist Management
Radio - Lisa Grey, Blue River Promotions
PR & Media Relations - Anna Ratliff

Executive Producers - Sonny Ochs, Paul Wilczynski and Joan Brasier
The 500 Club - Phil Terry and Lisa Dombrow, Ginger Long