Only Just Beginning

Only Just Beginning Artist: Jason Webley
Label: Springman
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 639852505120
EAN: 0639852505120
ASIN: B0001XAML8


Release Date: 2004-06-08

Only Just Beginning


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Tracks:

  1. February Relaxing Her Fingers After A Brief Winter's Grip
  2. Music That Puts Everything Together
  3. Balloon Feather Boat Tomato
  4. Icarus
  5. Mine
  6. Map
  7. Viaje
  8. May Day
  9. With
  10. Coda

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Just a note...........2007-04-02

All of the other reviews are quite accurate. This is an incredible album! But if you buy if from the artists website it's cheaper new than it is here used, and worth visiting the site any how just to read his stories.

5 out of 5 stars Incredible.......2005-07-11

When a group comes out with some new sound that doesn't match anything you've ever heard, the rub is that it seems to be the only thing they can do. Jason Webley, in this respect, breaks two molds: he's not only different from everyone else; he's even different from himself! Only Just Beginning displays his talent well.
Some songs, like Music That Puts Everything Together and May Day, are lively and bring a smile to your face. May Day in particular is wonderful; I played it for a friend and she couldn't help but start dancing! He's dead on with "You hear that beat? Come on, move your feet...old man Winter's dead and gone! There'll be wiggling of the toes, there'll be taking off of clothes, there'll be silly naked dancing on the lawn!"
Other songs, like the first track and With, are gentle and calming.

I had never heard of Jason Webley (like most people) when I went to a Dresden Dolls concert a while back, and I have to say that his stage presence is stunning. He walked onstage looking very ordinary in a plain brown hat, and for a moment I thought he was just helping set up, but then he leaned down and lifted his accordion off the stage. He stood and slowly began to play it, beautiful and haunting...I could see his face from the side as it crumpled in seeming ecstasy with each controlled note. He wasn't acting; almost nobody could see him. He truly loves what he does.
Then, he lifted one foot and stomped the stage. He stomped with the other. He did this until he had a great thunderous accordioned rhythm, and then turned with a jump and began to sing in an oft-roaring voice. The majority of his performance was that way; surprising, entertaining, magnificent. And there is a track like that on Only Just Beginning (my favorite, I admit): Icarus. The way he uses his voice on it is especially excellent; by mere pacing he adds incredible emotion to the lines, "I'll say a word for sickness, she is my favorite mistress yes she knows my body like no other can...my flesh and spirit keep colliding when her fingers are inside me--oh my god Oh my God lady I'm your man."

Music Album:

  1. To Your Heart ~ Karie Hillery
  2. Nature of the Beat ~ The Otters
  3. Automatic Bop, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists
  4. Down At Kit's ~ Luther Russell
  5. Sons of the Golden West ~ The Flying Burrito Brothers
  6. Life Goes On ~ Donell Jones
  7. Something About You Girl ~ Tahiti 80
  8. Crossing the Rubicon ~ Armageddon
  9. Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars ~ Bill Nelson
  10. Watkins Bold as Love ~ Geraint Watkins

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Waikiki ~ Hawaii Calls

The Genie ~ Bobby Lyle

Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly ~ Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly

Spellbinder ~ Kyoto Jazz Massive

Technocracy ~ Corrosion of Conformity

Ritmando Cha Cha Cha 1953-1955 ~ Orquesta Cosmopolita

Music of the Andes ~ Various Artists

Hangin Tree ~ Mississippi Mud

Rock With You ~ Boa

Fight to Win ~ Femi Anikulapo Kuti