Jon Langford

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Jon Langford
Jon Langford playing with The Mekons at the Hideout, Chicago, IL on 15 July 2015
Jon Langford performing with The Mekons at the Hideout in Chicago on 15 July 2015
Background information
Also known asJonboy Langford, Chuck Death, John Fanglord
Born (1957-10-11) 11 October 1957 (age 63)
Newport, Wales
OriginLeeds, West Yorkshire, England
GenresSinger-songwriter
Alt-Country
Rock and Roll
Punk rock
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentsGuitar
drums
Years active1977–present
LabelsBloodshot Records
Associated actsMekons
The Three Johns
Waco Brothers
KatJonBand
The Killer Shrews
Pine Valley Cosmonauts
The Sadies
Wee Hairy Beasties
Skull Orchard
Bad Luck Jonathan
Men of Gwent
Four Lost Souls
Sally Timms
Websitejonlangford.de

Jonathan Denis Langford (born 11 October 1957) is a Welsh[1][2] musician and artist based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.[3]

Langford is a founder member of the punk band The Mekons, the post-punk group The Three Johns, and the alternative country ensembles The Waco Brothers and Pine Valley Cosmonauts. He has campaigned against the death penalty in Illinois.[4]

Early life[]

Langford was born in Newport, Wales, the youngest son of Kit Langford and Denis Langford, a Registered Chartered Accountant for Lloyd's Brewery.[4][5] Langford's older brother is science-fiction author and critic David Langford, who lives in Reading, England.[4]

When he was young, Langford would visit his grandparents in Croesyceiliog, whose family friend ran two pubs, the Cambrian Arms and The Six in Hand.[4] He attended Gaer Infants School and Gaer Junior School, then Brynglas Primary School, the Newport High School middle school, before Queen's Hill.[4] In 1972–1973, after playing rugby and football, at the age of 15 Langford decided he liked playing music better. He played a lot of David Bowie and was listening to a lot of Man.[4]

Langford attended art school at University of Leeds as a painter.[6] He left school temporarily when the Mekons were founded, but later went back to college and finished his degree.[4]

Music[]

Since the mid-1980s, Langford has been one of the leaders in incorporating folk and country music into punk rock. He has released a number of solo recordings as well as recordings with other bands outside of The Mekons, most notably the Waco Brothers, which he co-founded after moving to Chicago in the early 1990s. He is involved with the Chicago-based independent record label Bloodshot.

In a 2010 interview, Langford said his earliest influences were Tom Jones, Slade, T. Rex, The Kinks, Johnny Cash, Man and Black Sabbath.[7]

Langford is known for being very funny, and politically left, in his remarks and antics during live musical performances, and in his frequent interviews with journalists.[citation needed]

The Mekons[]

Main article: The Mekons

Langford was originally the drummer for the punk band The Mekons when it formed at the University of Leeds in 1977, but he later took up the guitar as other band members left.[8] The Mekons were signed to Virgin Records but according to Langford they "got fired."[4] They played their first United States appearance on New Year's Eve in 1980, gave up live performances for a while, and released 1982's The Mekons Story. They began performing again in public in 1984, playing their first shows as benefits for the British miners' union.[9] After being signed by major American label A&M Records in the late 1980s, label shuffling resulted in the band trying to leave the label. In response, they recorded Curse of the Mekons, which the label refused to release, becoming available in the U.S. only as an import.[10] A documentary called The Revenge of the Mekons was released in 2014 by director Joe Angio.[11] The Mekons continue to record and perform live, as of 2019.[citation needed]

The Three Johns[]

Main article: The Three Johns

With John Hyatt and Phillip Brennan, Langford released several albums of drum-machine-fueled punk between 1982 and 1987. A retrospective box set was released in August 2015.[12]

Dim Subooteyo[]

As Dim Subooteyo, Brendan Croker and Langford released the album Lakeside (1990, SNAT Records).[13]

The Killer Shrews[]

The Killer Shrews were a group composed of Langford (lead vocals), Gary Lucas, and Tony Maimone. They released one self-titled album on Enemy Records in 1993.[14]

The Waco Brothers[]

Main article: The Waco Brothers

The Waco Brothers make country-punk music, and are a Chicago-based amalgam of players from the Pine Valley Cosmonauts family and others, who have been recording since 1995, as of 2021. For their first albums, they included Dean Schlabowske (guitar/vocal), Tracey Dear (mandolin/vocal), Alan Doughty (bass/vocal), Mark Durante (pedal steel guitar), and Mekons drummer Steve Goulding). By 2015, Goulding, now based in New York City, had been replaced by Joe Camarillo (drums), and Durante had left. Camarillo died in January 2021.

Pine Valley Cosmonauts[]

Main article: Pine Valley Cosmonauts

Langford initiated another project, the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, which performs the music of other country music groups. Several alternative country musicians have guested alongside a revolving assortment of Chicago musicians who have backed both Langford and other musicians such as Kelly Hogan.

Wee Hairy Beasties[]

Main article: Wee Hairy Beasties

The Wee Hairy Beasties were a children's music group based in Chicago, composed of Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, and Devil in a Woodpile. They played their first gig together at the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, and released two albums in 2006 and 2008.[15][16]

Men of Gwent[]

The Men of Gwent are mainly Newport-based musicians, including members of Give Me Memphis and The Darling Buds. Previously known as LL, the group have written and recorded intermittently for over 20 years[when?], and have been playing live since 2007.[17][18] As LL, their only release was a demo track ("Rechem") on the 1999 compilation Fear of a Red Planet.[19] Debut album The Legend of LL was released on Country Mile Records in 2015 and included reworkings of several songs from the same LL demos, as well as a new version of "Pill Sailor", first released on Skull Orchard in 1998.[20] Second album President of Wales was released in November 2019.[21]

Solo, Skull Orchard, etc.[]

Langford's first official solo album, Skull Orchard, a look back at his hometown of Newport, Wales, was released in 1998. He followed it with All the Fame of Lofty Deeds, in 2004, Gold Brick in 2006, Old Devils in 2010 and Here Be Monsters in 2014.

Langford and Sally Timms, the other Chicago-based member of the Mekons, continue to collaborate on various recording and performance projects, as of 2020.[22]

Circa 2003, Langford started the band "Ship & Pilot", to perform his songs. It continued to perform into 2006, and very occasionally since. Ship & Pilot also included Sally Timms, Tony Maimone, Jean Cook, and on drums variously Steve Goulding or Dan Massey.[23][24][25][26][27]

In the late 2000s Langford met the Burlington [Ontario, Canada] Welsh Male Chorus, who are based near Toronto. He invited them first to accompany him at a CeltFest in Chicago in 2007, and then to re-record the whole of the Skull Orchard. The album Skull Orchard Revisited (credited to Jon Langford and the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus) was released on 3 June 2011 by Bloodshot Records.[28] Langford continued to intermittently perform live with the chorus.[29]

2010's Old Devils is a follow up to the first Skull Orchard album.[30]

At the 2014 Hideout Block Party in Chicago, Langford debuted the band Bad Luck Jonathan (a name likely inspired by that of then-president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan).[31][32] The band, described as "socialist voodoo space boogie",[33] featured Alan Doughty and Joe Camarillo from the Waco Brothers, Phil Wandscher from Whiskeytown, and Martin Billheimer from Chicago's Pritzker Military Museum and Library.[34] According to Langford, "Bad Luck Jonathan is very loud and unashamedly 1971."[35]

Four Lost Souls is a collaboration between Langford, , Tawny Newsome and . Their eponymous debut album was produced by Norbert Putnam and released in 2017.[36][37]

Aside from the above-mentioned bands, Langford has performed with many different musicians over the years, but his most constant live collaborator has been singer and fellow Mekon Sally Timms, ever since they both moved to Chicago.[citation needed] Langford, with and without Timms, has often performed his own and others' songs accompanied by a lead guitar player. Circa 2000, session guitarist John Rice, formerly of Chicago country music band the Sundowners, often joined Langford live around Chicago.[citation needed] From 2015 into 2021, John Szymanski has regularly been Langford's lead guitarist.[citation needed] For louder performances around Chicago in the 21st century, Langford has often added bassist Alan Doughty and drummer Dan Massey, calling this aggregation first "Jon Langford & 3 Blokes" (2018-2021)[38] and then "Jon Langford and His Fancy Men" (2021+)[citation needed] Langford has sometimes graced various other ad hoc groups with particular names, such as "Jon Langford and the Sturdy Nelsons" (2018),[39] "Lost in America Tour Band" (2003),[40] "The One Day Band" (2002),[41] and "Jon Langford’s Hillbilly Lovechild" (2019, 1994).[42]

Langford has brought a band to nearly every annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, in San Francisco, in the 21st century.[29]

Visual art[]

Jon Langford is also a painter and graphic designer.

Langford has painted portraits of famous and forgotten figures from the dawn of country music, such as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and "The Cuckoo", many based on classic photographs. Many of his paintings and prints are available from the Yard Dog Art Gallery in Austin, TX, and LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, LA, as of 2021.[43][44] Nashville Radio, a collection of his artwork and writings, was published in 2006.[45]

Langford has designed and painted the covers for many music recordings. These include, but are not limited to, most of the recordings on which he has been the musical leader, and many recordings of his other bands.[2] Other examples include the cover art of The Sandinista! Project – A Tribute to The Clash[46] and "Commercial Suicide Man" (2018),[47] a collaborative single by the Nightingales and Vic Godard.

In 2015, Langford was commissioned by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to paint a series of portraits for its "Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City" exhibition, which opened on 27 March 2015.[48][49] Of that exhibit, Per Langford, "I said to my wife, 'They’ve got ‘The Death of Country Music’ on the wall at the Country Music Hall of Fame', and she just went, 'Well, I guess you won, then.'.”[35] That commission lead to a collaboration between Langford and Master Printer .[50] Their artwork was then adapted for the album covers of the 2015 double-LP compilation Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City and of the 2016 triple-LP Trio: Farther Along by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris.

Langford has designed the graphics for T-shirts, tote bags, and other items to support various organizations, including: Chicago's StreetWise magazine (which is sold by people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless);[51] Chicago's Hideout Inn during the COVID-19 pandemic;[52] Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music;[citation needed] and San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.[citation needed] Langford's paintings appear on bottles and other items for the Dogfish Head Brewery,[53] and Few Spirits. Since 2015, Langford has designed covers for a series of novels by author , including Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's and Ivy Feckett is Looking for Love.[54][55]

For over 10 years, Langford illustrated the pop-music parody comic strip Great Pop Things under the pseudonym Chuck Death with a friend from his hometown, Newport, Wales, Colin B. Morton, who wrote the text.[56] The cartoon strip was published in music and alternative weekly newspapers in London, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and was a pen-and-ink history of rock-and-roll.[56] An anthology of the best strips was published in a book of the same name.[57]

Radio[]

  • For several years starting in 2005, Langford co-hosted a weekly radio program called "The Eclectic Company" with , and occasionally Kelly Hogan, which was broadcast on WXRT 93.1 FM in Chicago.[58]
  • Langford has contributed to episodes of the syndicatedThis American Life program.[40][41]

Theatre[]

  • In 2005, Langford's multimedia music/spoken-word/video performance, The Executioner's Last Songs, premiered at Alverno College, and has been performed in several other cities.
  • In January and February 2009, Chicago's Walkabout Theater Company and Collaboraction premiered a stage adaptation of Langford's Goldbrick that featured a live band, two actors and video projections.[59]
  • In November and December 2009, The House Theatre of Chicago staged a production of All the Fame of Lofty Deeds, written by rock journalist Mark Guarino and based on Langford's art and 2004 solo album of the same name.[60]
  • In November 2018, scored Mark Guarino's play Take Me, produced at Straw Dog Theater Company. Chris Jones, theater critic for The Chicago Tribune stated "if you’re a fan of Langford’s work, you’ll find plenty here to merit a trip to Strawdog: At times, I was tempted to close my eyes, getting lost in the Bowie-esque longing you can find in these lush and potent melodies, true and vital feeling hidden in pastiche."[61]

Collaborations[]

Politics and service[]

Langford considers himself "working class socialist."[4] Langford has said he became politicized against the death penalty after the execution of John Wayne Gacy.[4]

In 1988, Langford co-produced (with Mark Riley) a Johnny Cash tribute album, 'Til Things are Brighter...,[66] to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust. The album was endorsed and admired by Cash himself who is featured alongside Langford and Riley on its cover. He and his fellow musicians have done many other musical fundraisers to support various causes, including striking British coal miners and Doctors Without Borders (The Mekons); and the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (Freakons). [67][68][69]

Langford produced The Executioner's Last Songs, Vols. 1,[70] 2, & 3[71] record compilations of 2002 and 2003, by various singers backed by the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, to benefit charitable organizations working to end the death penalty (, the Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project,[72] and the National Coalition To Abolish the Death Penalty). In 2006, Langford was commissioned to develop a performance[73] based on the compilations for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the show was also performed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

As mentioned above, Langford has designed and contributed graphics to a variety of organizations. Langford was an honorary board member of the Chicago-based nonprofit organisation Rock for Kids.

Personal life[]

Langford is married to architect and jewelry designer, Helen Tsatsos, as of 2021. Tsatsos' jewelry was awarded Macy's "Designer of Distinction" award in 2010 and has a line of pieces that incorporate Langford's artwork.[74] Langford and Tsatsos were introduced in 1986 at a party after a Three John's gig in her home town of Chicago.[4] They currently live in Chicago and have two children, James and Tommy.[75] James Langford is a clothing designer and, while in high school, was in the band The Ungnomes; Tommy Langford, as of 2021, is a songwriter and lead singer in the band Mock Nine.[4][76]

Solo discography[]

Albums[]

  • 1998: Skull Orchard (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2003: Mayors of the Moon (Bloodshot Records) – as Jon Langford and his Sadies
  • 2004: All the Fame of Lofty Deeds (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2006: Gold Brick (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2009: All the Fame of Lofty Deeds – The Soundtrack (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2010: Live at the Hideout: Jon Langford and Walter Salas-Humara (Bloodshot Records) – digital only
  • 2010: Old Devils (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2011: Skull Orchard Revisited – debut album Skull Orchard re-recorded with the Burlington Welsh Male Choir; book + CD (Verse Chorus Press)
  • 2014: Here Be Monsters (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2014: Choice Cuts: Best of Jon Langford (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2014: Bad Luck Jonathan – as Bad Luck Jonathan ()[77]
  • 2017: Four Lost Souls (Bloodshot Records)

EPs[]

  • 1998: Gravestone EP (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2000: Songs of False Hope & High Values (Bloodshot Records) – Sally Timms & Jon Langford

singles[]

  • 2002: Rocket Man (by Elton John & Bernie Taupin) digital only - as "The One Day Band[41][78]
  • 2012: Drone Operator (Bloodshot Records) – as Jon Langford and Skull Orchard
  • 2020: Jon Langford's Lucky Seven Series, part 1 (bandcamp) - package of 6 songs on 3 vinyl singles; also digital[79]

Compilation contributions (partial list)[]

  • 1994: "Over the Cliff" – For a Life of Sin: A Compilation of Insurgent Chicago Country – as Jon Langford’s Hillbilly Lovechild (w/ Tony Maimone, Brian Doherty, & Tracy Dear; Bloodshot Records)
  • 2000: "Brixton" – Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records – Chip Taylor w/ Jon Langford (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2002: "Nashville Radio" – Making Singles, Drinking Doubles (Bloodshot Records)
  • 2006" "Take This Hammer" – Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Volume One (Old Town School Recordings, Bloodshot Records)
  • 2007: "Junco Partner" and "Version Pardner" – The Sandinista! Project – A Tribute to The Clash – Jon Langford and Sally Timms with Ship & Pilot (/)[80][46]
  • 2019: "I Am a Big Town" – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots – as Jon Langford’s Hillbilly Lovechild (w/ Tony Maimone, Steve Albini, & John Szymanski; Bloodshot Records)[42][81]

Works or publications[]

  • Morton, Colin B., Chuck Death, and Greil Marcus. Great Pop Things. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1992. ISBN 978-0-140-17156-3 OCLC 441310470
  • Morton, Colin B., and Chuck Death. The Real History of Rock and Roll from Elvis to Oasis. Portland, OR: Verse Chorus Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-891-24108-6 OCLC 41108753
  • Langford, Jon. Nashville Radio: Art, Words and Music. Portland, OR: Verse Chorus Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-891-24119-2 OCLC 65470084
  • Langford, Jon, and David Langford. Skull Orchard Revisited: Art, Words & Music. Portland, OR: Verse Chorus Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-891-24130-7 OCLC 670481762

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