Jon Rauhouse News

Some of you eagle eyed viewers out there might have spotted three Neko Case tour dates up in the “On Tour” section of the site, which have now disappeared.

Well the dates are still going ahead but Jon isn’t part of the band, so I’ve taken them down. You can get the information from Neko’s site, so get along and support great live music even if it is Rauhouseless

Jon has been hired, along with Tom V. Ray and Barry Mirochnick – Kelly Hogan and Paul Rigby are playing with Neko – by Jakob Dylan for his upcoming tours. So he’s currently rehearsing for those shows. I’ll get the dates up as soon as I get ‘em.

In the words of the man himself…

Neko band was going to take a bunch of time off so its great to be employed.

Jon has also uploaded a video of himself playing with Joey Burns & John Convertino (of Calexico) in Tacoma, which I’m just about to add to the site.

Jon’s new bit of guitar gear is up in the “Gear” section.

It’s a square neck acoustic made by Roberto-Venn guitar building instructor and all round top bloke Don Windham under his Haymaker brand. A pretty damn fine looking piece of kit with name of Jon’s good lady wife inlaid into the fretboard.

Click the image below for a bigger pic

Jon is featured/interviewed in a couple of magazines coming up, or may even be out now.

So look out for him in British country mag Maverick Magazine and The Fretboard Journal. So check a newsstand near you or the sites for more details.

Also check out the “Tour Video” section of this site for a 10 track video of the recent Neko Case gig at the Paradiso in Amsterdam (Holland), from September 19th 2009.

If you downloaded the NPR podcast of the Neko Case show from Washington’s 9:30 Club on April 9th that I posted about a couple of weeks about then you would have heard Kelly Hogan talk about her, Kathleen Judge and Jon taking to the air in some old time planes.

Here’s what the fella himself has to say about it…

Out on tour in Washington DC, I got a chance to take a ride in a 1945 T-6G Texan. That is a World War 2 era trainer airplane. The pilot is Kelly Hogan’s brother, Skip Hogan. What an experience and what a day. – Jon Rauhouse

It was all thanks to the National Capitol Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force.

Washington City Paper’s Black Plastic Bag blog has a little Q&A with our very own Jon Rauhouse.

Check out what JR has to say at BPB

NPR.org has a free download of the recent Neko Case concert from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club on April 9th.

Click the podcast button at the top for the MP3 download, when the podcast changes you’ll be able to get it at the concert page.

Also up on the site are two more full gig downloads as MP3:

From Nov. 16, 2007, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

From 2006 at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club

Jon has a little run down of his favourite places in his hometown Phoenix over at Aquarium Drunkard.

A couple of videos of Jon playing with Neko Case have been added to the site, see the “On Tour” section.

…about getting to play with Les Paul.

Here’s what he had to say about getting to play with the legend that is Mr. Les Paul.

I still can’t believe i got to play with Les Paul. We played sleepwalk and then did a blues in G. He was so awesome and sweet. I played “Sleepwalk” and then he talked with me on stage for a while and then we did the blues in G. He was sharp as a tack, a little slower and less notes but he still played very well. Still in shock.

In his own words Jon’s “just got off a great tour” with his sestet and seems a happy bunny over not just it went well but the fact he got to play a couple of tracks with Les Paul at the Iridium in NYC on September 10th and who could blame him, getting to play with such a music legend – pics to come..

Theres a couple of reviews and interviews about from this tour, one at the Washington Post along with an article on the Jaded Insider Billboard Blog who say “He was smart and had a fantastic laugh.”

In his own words Jon has “Finally made a feature” in Guitar Player magazine.

So check it out in the Riffs section.