"One man, one 3/4 scale guitar, Milo Jones is an ascendant
star in the elite pantheon of modern-day crooners. His super sensitive
mix of Lee Hazlewood and Leonard Cohen is served up with just a hint
of understated irony, while languidly oozing sincerity and warmth.
Weird, but kind of heavy and beautiful, too. Which I guess makes it
really weird." Don
Bolles (Germs, Hushe Clubbe host at Hyperion Tavern LA)
"Milo Jones croons his little country songs in this sideways
manner, sort of romantic, sort of crazy, sort of haggard. It's like
if Townes Van Zandt, Nick Drake, and some sleazy European playboy
morphed into one person and then that person became a character in
a hard-boiled detective novel. In other words, on his "Lifeline" CD (out of print)
he covers Lee Hazelwood, Serge Gainsbourg, and Randy Newman right
in a row, and his own songs feel like they might side with any of
them (or more likely, all of them at once). Which is all just to say
that Jones is unique, that his music sounds both of the gutter and
of the plains. It's romantic and airy, but also very gritty, very
real. The music on Lifeline is timeless, meaning both that it sounds
old and new at once and that the album stretches out in front of you
in a way that's so easy to get lost in." Dave Heaton, Erasing
Clouds
"The Jones that is Milo makes me smile for miles and miles.
His eclectic musical trail takes a sharp left turn into a suprisingly
luscious grove where notes fly like pretty little bluebirds amidst
a midsummer's daydream." Linda Wolfe - BB
Gun Magazine
"Milo is one of the most eccentric and interesting characters
on today's folk circuit, with a compelling persona that can rival
any other's... when he's working his mini-guitar with complex and
intricate guitar lines, singing through a shocking range of notes
and emotions, he captures attentions and holds listeners just as well
as any full band could hope to." Baron, Tiny
Mix Tapes
"Milo Jones is a character to watch - and possibly watch out
for. What else to say about a guy who poses nude (full frontal) inside
his "Sassy Trax" CD (out of print) and yet whose music is so special? Jones has been described
as an amalgam of Chet Baker, Tom Waits, and Dracula... but we like
Jones better than Waits. He seems influenced by everyone, but sounds
like only himself. What sets Jones apart (from other “folkies”)
is his unstudied oddness, a radiantly weird personality that matches
his thoughtful playing and phrasing, as well as his choice of covers
(Lee Hazlewood, Dino Valente, Randy Newman, Gainsbourg). We'll need
to have our medication adjusted to sort out his magic any better than
that, but we recommend him highly." Mike Wolf - Time
Out New York
"Witty, endearing, hilarious, and potty-mouthed, Boston alt-folkie
(“alt,” as in alternate universe) Jones is a killer guitarist
whose flat-pick motorin’ right hand leaves guitar geeks drooling
while his pleasantly woozy (non-sappy) sentimental songs coyly inebriate
like a red-wine-and-Valium buzz. Jones channels legends such as Reinhardt,
Cohen, Porter, Veloso - fucking brilliant!" Shawn Bosler - Village
Voice
"...Milo Jones, a crooning trickster figure of the first order
who exhibits a Cat Power-like ability to absorb any song-writer -
Burt Bacharach, Bobby Russell, Iggy Pop - into his own rubber-lipped
and impeccably picked acoustic universe." Matthew Duersten -
LA Weekly
"No one - and we mean no one - defiles the Great American Songbook
with as much skill, poignance, and black-hearted wit as local gin-mill
revenant Milo Jones, a cracked and mournful chanteur who plays guitar
with astounding dexterity and delicacy, and when combined with his
singular croak, his songs are arsenic personified." Carly Carioli
- The Boston
Phoenix
"Nobody sounds like Milo Jones. He sings ballads so sincerely
that he can sell sentimentality without the need to wink. From his
unique voice to the rigorous way he arranges and performs his repertoire,
he’s one of the most remarkable musicians tackling “the
American songbook”, the classic popular and country songs that
span eras and styles." Chris Dahlen - PitchforkMedia.com,
Stylus
Magazine
"You can make comparisons all day, may it be Leonard Cohen,
Paul Westerberg, or some other alt-folkie, but the final word is that
there is little to no one that sounds quite like Milo Jones... strange,
beautiful, and unique. He is a great guitarist, his voice is haunting,
and I guess his morbid sense of humor is part of the charm."
Hugh Miller - Unfinished
e-zine
"Milo is one of the few artists in my life that I wake up to
and go to sleep to.” Joan
As Police Woman - (Antony & The Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright,
Lou Reed, etc).