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“‘GoGo Juice’ is another expert mix of strutting party-starters (“Boneyard”) and beseeching soul anthems (“Brother I’m Hungry”), sung in an agreeably raspy voice.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“The latest from the long-time-ago U.K.-to-NOLA transplant is, as always with this multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/songwriter, loaded to the bones with all kindsa grooves...[and] is home to some of Cleary’s most notable playing and writing to date. New Orleans is in good hands with this expat.” RELIX

With the release of the Grammy-winning “GoGo Juice”, New Orleans funk master JON CLEARY returns to writing and recording the original material that has brought him critical acclaim since his 1999 album, “Moonburn”. Beyond Cleary’s considerable skills as a tunesmith he is equally renowned around the globe as an accomplished keyboardist and guitar-ist, and a deeply soulful vocalist. Cleary’s thirty-five years of intensive hands-on work on the Crescent City scene has made him a respected peer of such New Orleans R&B icons as Dr. John and Allen Toussaint. While thoroughly steeped in the classic Crescent City keyboard canon – from Jelly Roll Morton to Fats Domino to Art Neville, James Booker, and beyond – Cleary uses that century’s worth of pianistic brilliance as a point of departure to forge his own unique and eclectic style wrapped in such far-flung influences as ‘70s soul, gospel music, funk, Afro-Caribbean (and especially Afro-Cuban) rhythms and more.

Jon Cleary

Jon Cleary’s love and affinity for New Orleans music goes back to the rural British village of Cranbrook, Kent, where

he was raised in a musical family. Cleary’s maternal grandparents performed under the respective stage names Sweet

Dolly Daydream and Frank Neville, ‘The Little Fellow With The Educated Feet’ – she as a singer, and he as a tap dancer.

His father was a 50’s skiffle man and taught him the rudiments as soon as he was big enough to reach around the neck

of his guitar. Upon attaining double-digit age Cleary became avidly interested in funk-filled music, buying records and

intently studying their labels and album covers. Cleary’s knowledge expanded significantly when his Uncle, musician

Johnny Johnson returned from a sojourn in New Orleans in the early 70’s and brought back two suitcases of rare and

obscure local 45s, which allowed the adolescent Cleary to pursue his study of the New Orleans sound that increasingly

captivated him.

As soon as he was old enough to leave school in 1980 Cleary took off for the Crescent City. By 1989, Cleary had recorded

his first album of eight including the new “GoGo Juice”. His increasingly high-profile performances revealed a level of

proficient versatility that led to recording sessions and international touring work – in an appropriately wide stylistic

range – in the bands of Taj Mahal, John Scofield, Dr. John and, most notably, Bonnie Raitt. As a songwriter, he has written

and co-written songs with and for Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal and the decade that he spent working with Raitt inspired

her to unabashedly dub Cleary “the ninth wonder of the world.” In 2009, Cleary left the Raitt band to concentrate on

his own music. And now, 35 years since he arrived in New Orleans, Cleary has made an eloquent, definitive and future-

classic artistic statement. “Funk is the ethnic folk music of New Orleans,” Cleary says, “and I wanted to infuse GoGo

Juice with a sound that was true to the city I love. It’s the kind of record that could only be made in New Orleans.”

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