Category Archives: Video

Baked Patowtow

CRUELTY is now available!
Order now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase the CD or MP3s at cdbaby.com.
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records or End of an Ear in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.

I don’t have a Southpaw show in Austin to promote this weekend, but I strongly recommend the Sea Fields of Elephants EP Release Party at Ruta Maya on Saturday. This fresh band is releasing three EPs for $4 each, but when you pay the $5 cover, you get one free! The evening will feature members of my favorite young band Max & Henry. Henry will present a DJ set, and Max is in Sea Fields of Elephants. The event goes from 5-9 pm. If you want a taste of the future of wonderful Austin music, cleanse your palette with pickled ginger and head to Ruta Maya Saturday!

When I arrived at my Flipnotics @ the Triangle show last night, I discovered a review of CRUELTY in The Austin Chronicle. Hooray! It’s a three star write-up that begins, “There are thousands of singer-songwriters, but only one Southpaw Jones.” Why does such a sentence inspire gobs of pride in my heart? Because it’s always encouraging to rediscover that if I weren’t writing all these crazy songs, no one would. I’ve got work to do! You can read the full review here.

Lastly this day, it’s another video from my CRUELTY release show last week at the Cactus Café. Thanks to Robert Steel for filming and posting the footage. He also included kind words in his MySpace blog. The song is called “Baked Potato,” and this may be the best performance of it to date. It requires solid crowd participation, and I had an amazing crowd that night. Not only did everyone sing, but everyone seemed to know how to sing! Go Austin!


[YouTube link]

100years Baked Patowtow
as reported in The New York Times

August 8, 1908
BOY AND GIRL DISAPPEAR.
Last Seen Boarding New York Train and Parents Fear a Wedding.
EASTPORT, L.I. — Ever since their babyhood sixteen-year-old Ollie Tuttle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Tuttle of this place, and Bessie Edwards, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards of Speonk, two years the lad’s junior, have been playmates.

museum Baked Patowtow
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I love that nostalgic show that focuses on pop culture during the Reagan years, but it’s limited to an island republic in the West Indies. You know the one I’m talking about! It’s called “I Love…

Highlight here for answer: [Haiti’s Eighties]

museum Baked Patowtow
Concept Typography Artwork, Animal Kingdom

080808 Baked Patowtow


quotopia Baked Patowtow

I wasn’t used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn’t known that before; I thought I was just short.
Florence King, on her first day of kindergarten

shows Baked Patowtow

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2008
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 pm
Wyldwood House Concert
4205 Wyldwood Road
AUSTIN, TX
wyldwood.startlogic.com
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Celebrating the lyrics of CRUELTY!
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 472-5050
www.bookpeople.com

Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Legitimate Film(ed)

CRUELTY is now available!
Order now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase the CD or MP3s at cdbaby.com.
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records or End of an Ear in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.

Tonight is the night I return to Gruene and the lovely Oma Gruene Bier Garten. The wonderful Raina Rose will join me, and I’ll bring copies of CRUELTY, you know that! Details below.

Have you seen enough of my pretty face this week? Regardless, here’s another video from Tuesday’s CRUELTY CD Release Celebration. It’s the first song on the CD and the first song I played that night: “Legitimate Film.” Thanks again to Robert Steel for filming and sharing.

Come on back to southpawjones.com Monday!

100years Legitimate Film(ed)
as reported in The New York Times

August 1, 1908
PUNISHED FOR GALLANTRY.
Orange Policeman Dismissed for Escorting a Young Woman Home.

museum Legitimate Film(ed)
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

His job is puncturing the ground to find oil, but he doesn’t work the flat land. He believes that mounds and mountains hold all the black gold. That’s why he only…

Highlight here for answer: [drills hills]

museum Legitimate Film(ed)
Fitness One Hundred Years Ago

080108 Legitimate Film(ed)


quotopia Legitimate Film(ed)

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger

shows Legitimate Film(ed)

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008
8:00 pm
Oma Gruene
1263 Gruene Rd.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX
CD Release Celebration for CRUELTY!
830-237-5746

http://omagruene.com

Raina Rose opens.

Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Still Talking About that Show

CRUELTY is now available!
Order now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase the CD or MP3s at cdbaby.com.
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records or End of an Ear in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.

Yesterday, I included this sentence: “Thanks to everyone who came out to the Cactus Café last night!” Well, this site is all about honesty, and if I’m being honest, I have to include that I typed those words before the actual CD release show. I just assumed there would be people in attendance and that I’d want to thank them.

Now that I’ve had my day off to refresh and reflect, I need to amend my statement: Thanks to everyone who filled up the Cactus Café, purchased tons of CDs, and made it the best show of my life. The support was surprising, encouraging, and a bit overwhelming. Thank you, Austin, for making it ok for me to be me.

Enough of the mushy stuff, now, I’m back at work. Everybody knows employees of American Money Team aren’t supposed to cry tears of appreciation.

Would you like to see some footage of the historic evening? My friend Jennifer Gandin Le of Critical Minutiae posted my performance of “Everyman” (track 7 on CRUELTY). She even transcribed the lyrics on her site AND included “Long Hot Shower” on the keytar! Thanks to Chris and Jennifer for capturing the show and sharing.


Southpaw Jones’ “Everyman” from CRUELTY from Jennifer Gandin Le on Vimeo.

Also, Mr. Ben Bartley wrote about the show on his blog, I Ben: Thinking. Kind words from a kind man. Thanks, Ben.

Now that I’ve survived the release process, a different sort of work begins. My new task is making sure that every human being who might enjoy CRUELTY is able to find out about CRUELTY. It won’t be easy, so if you have any ideas for me, please share. I hope you’re enjoying the CD or your plans to obtain one.

100years Still Talking About that Show
as reported in The New York Times

July 31, 1908
FARMAN’S AIRSHIP LIKE A HUGE BIRD
The Planes Are Arched Like Wings, and It Even Has a Birdlike Beak.

museum Still Talking About that Show
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

That blogger passed away a year ago, but today, there is a new entry on the bulletin board with his name on it! Does anyone have an explanation for this…

Highlight here for answer: [ghost post]

museum Still Talking About that Show
Fitness One Hundred Years Ago

073108 Still Talking About that Show


quotopia Still Talking About that Show

It is the fundamental wisdom of the capitalist system that it functions irrespective of the wisdom or the stupidity of the capitalists.
Gustav Stolper

shows Still Talking About that Show

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008
8:00 pm
Oma Gruene
1263 Gruene Rd.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX
CD Release Celebration for CRUELTY!
830-237-5746

http://omagruene.com

Raina Rose opens.

Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Long Hot Shower

You now have 5 days to live your life without CRUELTY!
How shall you spend them?

CD Release Tuesday, July 29 @ Cactus Cafe.

Come on out to Flipnotics @ the Triangle tonight at 8 pm, and you might see something like the content of this here YouTube video. Trust me, the bass line is louder in person.

[YouTube link]

Thanks to Robert Steel for recording and posting it.

100years Long Hot Shower
as reported in The New York Times

July 24, 1908
LOSES DIAMONDS AT BALL.
Mrs. Marshall Roberts’s Collarette Disappears at Duchess’s Supper Table.
Mrs. Marshall Roberts has lost a diamond and pearl collarette under circumstances which are causing considerable gossip in London society. The matter has been reported to the police, who issued a description of the article under the caption, “Lost or Stolen.”

museum Long Hot Shower
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

You have created the most intelligent paintings throughout your career. Your IQ and your talent are so high above the rest, we now bestow you with the label…

Highlight here for answer: [Smartest Artist]

museum Long Hot Shower
World’s Worst Comic Book Museum

072408 Long Hot Shower


quotopia Long Hot Shower

Prostitute yourself. As far as I’m concerned, that’s even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.
Gene Simmons

shows Long Hot Shower

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008
Cactus Cafe
The Texas Union, 24th & Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
CD Release Celebration for CRUELTY!
(512) 475-6515

http://utexas.edu/txunion/ae/cactus/index.php

Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Putting One Paw in Front of Another

Happy Friday, friends. I hope you’ll enjoy a video in lieu of my gooberlicious thoughts today. My friend Ben Bartley posted some video of his very cute PugPuggy accompanied by my song “This is the Year” from Bedroom Demos Vol. 1: Zero Demand. You can download the song at iTunes and Amazon, or order the CD from this here site if you like. Enjoy!

100years Putting One Paw in Front of Another
as reported in The New York Times

June 13, 1908
GAVE THE DEACON A CIGAR.
Divinity Student Thus Lost Call to a Pastorate.

museum Putting One Paw in Front of Another
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Thanks for having us over. Sorry I got olive juice on your antique linen circle. Can I help find a replacement for your…

Highlight here for answer: [oily doily]

museum Putting One Paw in Front of Another
Colourful Coffins

061308 Putting One Paw in Front of Another


quotopia Putting One Paw in Front of Another

The more renowned woman often has fewer rings.
Icelandic proverb

shows Putting One Paw in Front of Another

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
http://flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
9:00 PM
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant St. 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576

http://andersonfair.com

Doors open at 8:00pm

Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.