[NEohioPAL] PRESS RELEASE:: Jon Langford :: His Music and his Art Oct 30th.

[Heather Young]

-For Immediate Release.
 
Waterloo 7 Gallery
16006 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, OH 44110
Info Call-239-293-9548
website-schmidtsculpture.com
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Jon Langford: Country Music Legends, Paintings and Prints
Oct. 30-Nov.29
Opening reception with the artist Thursday, Oct. 30, 6-9 PM
Free and open to the public.
 
Jon Langford also performs with his band later that evening at the Beachland Tavern. 
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard, opening will be Oliver Buck and the New Madrids
9 PM show, $12 tickets
 
Jon Langford is a founding member of legendary British rock band the Mekons. A native of South Wales, Langford now lives in Chicago. He continues to play with the Mekons, as well as Chicago band the Waco Brothers. His multi-layered paintings take imagery from old country music publicity photos and sheet music and envelope them in a haze of ironic nostalgia. He describes his painting technique thusly: "Long process of layering, scraping, minute attention to detail. Basically, I create a very unstable surface with acrylics and pastel on top of each other and work on top of that with Sharpies, felt pens, white out, gunk, snot and whatever comes to hand." 
 
His work is represented by the legendary outsider gallery Yarddog in Austin, Texas. www.yarddog.com and go to artist Jon Langford to view more of his work.
 

More complete bio from Wikipedia:
Originally the drummer for the punk band  The Mekons, formed at the University of Leeds in 1977, Langford later took up the guitar as other band members left. Since the mid-1980s he has been one of the leaders in incorporating folk and country music into punk rock. Over the years, he has released a number of solo recordings as well his other band the Waco Brothers, which he co-founded after moving to Chicago in the early '90s. He is strongly involved with the Chicago-based independent record label Bloodshot.
Langford is also a prolific and respected visual artist best known for his striking portraits of country music icons like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. His paintings appear on bottles and other items for the Dogfish Head Brewery. His multimedia music/spoken-word/video performance, "The Executioner's Last Songs," premiered at Alverno College in 2005, and has been performed in several other cities. He also illustrated the comic strip Great Pop Things under the pseudonym Chuck Death. Since 2005 he has been one of the hosts of a weekly radio program, "The Eclectic Company," broadcast on WXRT 93.1 FM in Chicago. He's also a regular contributor to This American Life.
Among Langford's musical side projects have been the Three Johns (with John Hyatt and John (Phillip) Brennan), who released several albums of drum-machine-fueled punk in the 1980s; the country-punk Waco Brothers, who have been recording since 1995; the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, a revolving assortment of Chicago musicians that have backed both Langford and other musicians such as Kelly Hogan, who regularly backs up Neko Case; and Ship and Pilot. He soon became a father figure to the local music scene, encouraging many of his labelmates on Bloodshot Records and championing anyone who he thought worthy of scrutiny, often lending his services as a musician or visual artist or inviting local musicians to guest on his releases.
 
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 his second solo release, All the Fame of Lofty Deeds, in 2004, and Gold Brick in 2006. Nashville Radio, a collection of his artwork and writings, was published in 2006.
 
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