tag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:/blogs/latest-newsLatest News2021-11-03T22:38:46-04:00Lon Eldridgefalsetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/67978562021-11-03T22:38:46-04:002023-10-16T10:47:12-04:00New musical project: BEEF BONE<p>I’m excited to announce a new musical endeavor, a heavy blues project I’m calling BEEF BONE. Searing slide guitar, razor edge vocals, and hip shakin’ drums are the hallmarks of this band. I say band, but it’s really me as a one man band. Check out the brand new five song EP, “Bone to Pick”, available now digitally on Bandcamp and coming soon to limited edition CASSETTE!</p>
<p>Bandcamp link: <a contents="loneldridge.bandcamp.com/album/bone-to-pick" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://loneldridge.bandcamp.com/album/bone-to-pick" target="_blank">loneldridge.bandcamp.com/album/bone-to-pick</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/b0e143557b76266f6199a94b1a18d1807d52b555/original/446c131a-4ae3-462e-8fdd-ad94a3fb3108.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/67071472021-08-04T19:06:10-04:002021-09-28T16:34:15-04:00“Rarities, Vol. I” Now Available on Bandcamp<p>Get it here: <a contents="loneldridge.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-vol-i" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://loneldridge.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-vol-i" target="_blank">loneldridge.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-vol-i</a></p>
<p>About the album…</p>
<p>June 4th, 2021, marks ten years since the release of my first official album “Home to the Highway” in 2011. Since then, I’ve released five more full-length studio albums, two EPs, toured the USA and Europe numerous times, and generally lived a whole lot of life. What a great ride it’s been! This album of rarities, unreleased live and studio recordings, and side projects is a look back at my more formative years as a musician. The tracks in this compilation are from roughly 2003-2010, with a few exceptions, and includes music that ended up on the cutting room floor for one reason or another. I’ve listened back through the entirety of my recorded archives and skimmed the cream off the top, selecting my favorites, many of which have never seen the light of day before this release. You’ll find some things sound familiar, and a lot of surprises too. Enjoy! </p>
<p>-Lon</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/07af206ee9c7f95ec00ca6e900cc26a742d4bd46/original/e7c92696-ff60-4bf4-b204-08acc0c7671e.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/64751432020-11-11T15:08:45-05:002021-10-08T16:24:26-04:00**NEW RELEASE** “The Island” is now available!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/76461001ef19b43152777e9c45fe06eb90fd7bca/original/1433aee9-0262-4ba0-bfc8-4a3d46af609e.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>The Island", the fifth studio release from Chattanoog multi-instrumentalist Lon Eldridge, was recorded in isolation during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. Get it at LonEldridge.bandcamp.com</p>
<p>Special thanks to: Parker Allen, Emily Kate Boyd, Jama Jacks, Zach Serleth, Choro das 3 </p>
<p>Credits:</p>
<p>Released June 11, 2020.</p>
<p>Lon Eldridge - electric/acoustic/resophonic guitars, lap steel, bass guitar, ukulele, vocals </p>
<p>Guest musicians (in order of appearance): </p>
<p>Tom Morley - 5-string fiddle on “Blue Amberol Blues” <br>Elisa Meyer Ferreira - bandolim on "Mon Petit Avion" <br>Lia Meyer Ferreira - 7-string guitar on “Mon Petit Avion” <br>Corina Meyer Ferreira - flute on "Mon Petit Avion" <br>George Norman - mandolin on “Café Tiffany’s Swing” <br>Sami Arefin - acoustic guitar on “Café Tiffany’s Swing” <br>Brannon Starnes - narration/backing vocals on "Heaven In Your Eyes" </p>
<p>“Blue Amberol Blues” recorded/mixed by Brett Nolan at The Soundry. <br>“Mon Petit Avion” recorded/mixed by Corina Meyer Ferreira in a van down by the river. <br>"Heaven In Your Eyes" recorded by Brannon Starnes on a crappy cell phone. </p>
<p>Cover photo by Ben Van Winkle. Album design by Lon Eldridge. </p>
<p>Booking: LonEldridge.com/contact <br>Custom bolo ties at: instagram.com/bolo_knee</p>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/52276342018-05-10T20:55:32-04:002021-11-03T22:40:27-04:00New album available May 18th, 2018!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/1b5a822250d6d8cf76643491d1ec5c9bde065e69/original/image.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>**NEW ALBUM** </p>
<p>"Cool Iron" by Lon Eldridge & Steven Troch </p>
<p>"Eldridge’s finger-picked resonator guitar and vocals mixed with Troch’s soulful harmonica make for a classic combination. The two rely not on modern technology but on musicianship and feeling to create honest acoustic music that’s good for the soul." -Eric Noden </p>
<p>Available digitally MAY 18TH at LonEldridge.bandcamp.com</p>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/42862452016-07-19T23:42:41-04:002021-08-06T15:34:14-04:00Coming July 27th to Jazzanooga...<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/820a29b7cb8951f1cbe634e4a96191e237f8db68/original/image.jpeg?1468986147" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p>ALL ABOOOAAARD! </p>
<p>Travel to far-flung locales via the arcane medium of 78rpm record and let the music of exotic lands enchant and excite your eardrums! DJ Passé (Lon Eldridge) takes you on an epic audio journey spanning 24,901 miles and 24 countries in just two hours. That's enough to make Verne's own Phileas Fogg jealous! These antique recordings, gathered from the four corners of the globe, will be presented upon a stunning 1905 Victor V-2 external horn gramophone and a c. 1925-30 HMV Model 103 for authenticity's sake and for your ocular enjoyment. Don't miss this unique phonolecture! </p>
<p>Click <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.thechattery.org/classes/2016/7/27/around-the-world-in-80-plays-a-phonographic-journey" target="_blank">HERE</a> to buy tickets!</p>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/39678522015-12-26T21:10:17-05:002021-09-12T11:46:46-04:00Late-night Machinations...<p>Every so often, I endure a bit of criticism because of my preference for mechanically (non-electrically) reproduced sound over electrically amplified recordings. This preference isn't just something I hold to because it's "hip" or "nostalgic". I truly believe that mechanically reproduced sound is the purest, most natural method of sound wave reproduction there is, and a territory that has gone vastly unexplored and undeveloped since the invention of electrical recording in the 1920s. In defense against my critics' diatribes, I offer this rebuttal... </p>
<p>The instrument by which all of us humans experience sound, the ear and all its complex inner workings, is essentially a gramophone (a wind-up record player) acting in reverse. </p>
<p>When a sound wave approaches the ear, it must first pass through the outer ear. This is the ear that we all know and love and see on a daily basis, and its counterpart on the gramophone is the big horn. After that, sound is channeled into the ear canal. Compare that to the long skinny tone arm of the gramophone. At the end of the ear canal lies the eardrum and the middle ear. In the middle ear, the energy of pressure waves is translated into mechanical vibrations by the three auditory ossicles (ear bones). Pressure waves move the eardrum, which in turn moves the malleus, the first bone of the middle ear. The malleus then articulates to the incus, which connects to the stapes. The footplate of the stapes connects to the oval window, the beginning of the inner ear, where the vibrations are converted into electrochemical impulses and decoded by the brain (essentially cutting a record inside your noggin). A gramophone's reproducer (the round thing at the end of the tone arm) is structured remarkably like that of the middle ear with its tiny ossicles. Compare the eardrum, malleus, incus, and stapes of the ear to the diaphragm, armature, needle holder, and needle on the gramophone reproducer. Their functions are nearly identical. The reproducer even has balancing springs, much like the stabilizing ligaments of the ear. </p>
<p>In a nutshell, this is why I take to mechanically amplified sound. It is because the method used for producing and amplifying said sound waves is directly related to the instrument used for decoding and processing those sound signals. In theory, this is the most lossless audio there is. Someday, I hope to explore the yet unseen possibilities in the field of mechanical amplification and perhaps pick up where the pioneers of yesteryear left off. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/c69668bf4cfce0157ddacb76223681fba55efc7e/original/image.jpeg?1451182107" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/5d36716c2f01d0380e86b3e156017ad092e4d532/original/image.jpeg?1451182107" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/d158c0ddb6408b8e41b9027345c4170b04133f92/original/image.jpeg?1451182107" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/37324652015-06-07T23:14:48-04:002021-10-11T14:32:58-04:00CD Release Party!<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; "><strong>BURLESQUE! FREAK SHOW! SHINY GUITARS! BELLY DANCING! FIRE!</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; ">Proud to announce that my third studio album "Long Gone" will be released <strong>June 25th at The Honest Pint</strong> as part of River City Rumpus, the most exhilarating, titillating, and thrilling shindig that Chattanooga is likely to see for a long while! Appearances by Subterranean Cirqus, Cutthroat Freakshow, Eric Odditorium, Scarlett Storm, Lacy Jo, Lon Eldridge, and many more!</p>
<p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; ">I'll be selling the CD for a special introductory price, so be<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "> among the first to get one!<br><br><strong>Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. 21+ (sorry kiddos).</strong></span></p>
<div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; ">Until the big day, you can get a sneak preview of "Long Gone" by clicking on the "MUSIC" tab above, or by visiting <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FLoneldridge.bandcamp.com%2F&h=3AQHII5Oy&enc=AZOTSHlqJo9o1Lzh10pUWm0Le5O1ZG47Ipr5CwzEYG04WdLHLOHM1uYh4HQtw4WmTueQpV7KzOQHSfoWQ-aEFgeCkPTLaIErFdO61W5tU9UaK0BFcvJpcuMQ6nbEPV4oHb2XH9eKCIkX8LObfs42SuIWxe3F6oJANsxTC0IuyEIbEFHiCmUrIDMLv6biTD-cvSDCGxRFwoNhb9mXroxktcRW&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">Loneldridge.bandcamp.com</a><br><br>See you at the party!<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/e117381b1d49f1633e2c4717906db48c512cd48e/original/rumpus.jpg?1433733259" class="size_l justify_left border_" /></p></div>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/37303742015-06-05T10:29:58-04:002021-10-02T17:22:53-04:00NEW ALBUM COMING SOON"Long Gone", my third studio album, will be available in late June 2015. Keep your eyes open for details about American and European release parties.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/ba021f61215176b61e84e0d5744a499415e47488/original/image.jpg?1433514547" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/32657602014-11-04T12:19:50-05:002021-09-13T10:59:18-04:00Swamp Sessions #1<br>Hey, y'all. Did some filming out in Honey Island Swamp on Sunday. Check out the first in a series of videos entitled "Swamp Sessions" under the video tab now!<br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/ca75918cea174762c5e0f228cc9c7590696a82e9/original/10513984-307118159494403-136390007-n.jpg?1415121461" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/32175362014-10-04T13:49:04-04:002021-09-24T17:17:05-04:00Open Spaces collaboration.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/148489/716ff63186acbfd815bca443caaaf28982cd044c/medium/image.jpg?1412444881" class="size_m justify_left border_" />Hey everyone, check this out. I've just done a little collaboration with Joel Ruiz and Open Spaces as part of one their projects downtown. Open Spaces takes empty storefronts and enlivens them with light, art, and interactive installations. If you go to the 7th and Broad St. shuttle stop, you'll see my vivacious visage lighting up an interactive touch screen about Chattanooga history.<br><br>So, for those of you that have always wanted to touch my moustache, but never had the gall, now's your chance! Go check it out this month and post pics and video on my Facebook page.<br> Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/32090172014-09-29T15:38:04-04:002021-09-17T13:09:30-04:00A new one...Here's a little sample of a tune I've been writing lately. Not finished, but you'll get the idea...<br><br><a contents='Lon Eldridge - "Long Gone Rag"' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/lon-eldridge/sounds-from-monday-afternoon-2">Lon Eldridge - "Long Gone Rag"</a>Lon Eldridgetag:www.loneldridge.com,2005:Post/31730052014-09-05T11:28:50-04:002021-08-14T02:29:37-04:00Mission accomplished!Well, one of the big goal's I've set for my music career this year is finally a reality. That's right, this website! Can't tell you how good it feels to have a piece of .com real estate.<br><br>The other big goal I've set is to film some current, high-quality videos that better represent my current look and sound. Those will be up before the end of the year, fingers crossed, so keep an eye out.<br><br>Another big announcement...<br><br>This May, I'll be departing for my first ever SPRING European tour, and perhaps taking some special guests along.Lon Eldridge