Jim Jones All Stars: Get Down ~ Get With It
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Out twenty fourth October 2025
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Jim Jones All Stars as soon as once more unleash upon us all their intense, high-octane and evangelical fusion of onerous driving rock’n’roll, storage rock, gritty rhythm and blues and gospel by means of the discharge of their new dwell album, Get Down ~ Get With It. And there’s no query in any respect that this electrifying and explosive assortment of songs completely paperwork the sound of a band who’re pioneering the revival of an age-old rock’n’roll spirit and supercharging it to a complete new and unprecedented degree.
It was again in 2022 when the primary seeds have been being sown for the brand new rock’n’roll enterprise by Jim Jones with a batch of recent songs being recorded in Memphis, ensuing within the launch of the primary single, It’s Your Voodoo Working, in October of that yr. This heralded the beginning of Jim Jones All Stars and it was time for the world to get up once more and take be aware. A complete sequence of dwell exhibits adopted as this intense and extremely energised wall of sound adopted a relentless path throughout uncharted waters, with their debut album Ain’t No Peril arriving in wonderful sonic technicolour in September 2023 to additional cement their place inside the epicentre of the rock’n’roll world.
Quick ahead to 2025, following on from some prestigious help slots for the likes of The Black Crowes and Ginger Wildheart, and we now get the discharge of a dwell album Get Down ~ Get With It which paperwork their dwell performances over these previous couple of years. As Jim explains, “Get Down ~ Get With It’s a bookend of the place the band is at proper now and it’s a cool strategy to mark the tip of this chapter of the band earlier than we launch our sophomore album in 2026.”
As Marc Riley so aptly identified throughout one of many All Stars BBC6 radio periods, Jim Jones has “one thing of a popularity” for “at all times being in top-of-the-line rock’n’roll bands round.” That is as true as ever with this new band who mix the uncooked vitality of Little Richard from that early basic rock’n’roll period with the onerous hitting and powerhouse supply of the likes of MC5 and Stooges, while additionally infusing a complete heap of soul. Jim is an artist who has at all times been steeped in old style rock’n’roll traditions, with an perspective to match which exudes by means of his at all times commanding stage presence, and there may be little doubt that this shines very brightly all through this excellent dwell album.
Because the needle hits the primary groove, we hear the band make it on stage amidst a cacophony of noise because the drums pound, the saxes wail, the keys twinkle and the guitars roar with Jim exclaiming “Get down, get with it” and tenor sax participant Stuart Dace asserting their arrival. The impression is instant and intense and provides us an perception into what’s to observe over the approaching hour or in order the crunching backbeat of Cement Mixer launches a sonic landslide into the darkest corners of our thoughts. This epic blast of bump and grind positively steamrollers the efficiency into motion and, with barely a pause for breath, we hear Jim declaring “Ain’t no smoke with out hearth” because the fuzz drenched guitar of Carlton Mounsher and blur of the manic fingerwork on Elliot Mortimer’s keyboard heralds one other Revue basic in Burning Your Home Down.
The gritty and groove heavy Gimme The Grease retains the pulsing saxes of Stuart Dace and Tom Hodges up entrance and centre as Aidan Sinclair on drums and Gavin Jay on bass maintain a maintain on the rudder of a monstrous beat because the funk and soul vibe kicks into overdrive. We get solely a short momentary respite by means of the piano pushed Parchman Farm which plunders Bukka White’s shuffling delta bluesy beat courting again to the 40’s, with Stuart once more taking the lead on tenor sax earlier than it explodes right into a climactic ending.
New tune Let You Go has an actual classic really feel which drips with soul-fired energy because it swings and sways by means of a commerce off between the guitars and saxes which inevitably deliver it entrance and centre into the current day, very a lot alive and kicking. This continues proper by means of into Goin’ Greater which Jim assaults with an unbridled vitality and power which merely can’t be ignored as he screams out “get your fingers up in opposition to the wall” – and on this temper who’s going to argue with that!? With the keys pushed to the bounds of endurance, its one other wild experience which shifts gears in its ultimate passage because the saxes wail and the deep grooves get completely entrenched into your inside soul.
Soul Dealer follows in the same vein because it delves again into the Thee Hypnotics songbook and the foot pushes down onerous on the accelerator of this relentless storage infused rock’n’roll mine prepare. If you’re not on board with this proper now, then you definately actually ain’t been listening! The fractured rhythms of I Need You (Any Means I Can) morph right into a hook laden basic from Ain’t No Peril as Carlton and Jim commerce guitar runs by means of the tight groove pushed by the bass and drums, while Elliot’s keys dance within the foreground. At this level within the proceedings, dancing is just not an choice, it’s a necessity wherever you could be listening to this album.
Troglodyte merely oozes with the monstrous groove of soiled funky caveman rock by means of this cowl of a tune by the Jimmy Castor Bunch courting again to the early 70’s, with the entire band in complete communion with the unholy racket that ensues because the tune attracts to its conclusion. After one other transient respite by means of the soul-drenched saxes which infuse the mournful Lover’s Prayer, the All Stars waste no time in launching again into complete sonic overdrive as Aidan takes us over into the darkish aspect of our minds with a scorching model of the Revue’s Rock’n’Roll Psychosis, earlier than Elliot leads us right into a high-velocity take of the epic Princess And The Frog. This actually is the enterprise finish of the set which makes no excuses and holds no prisoners.
Shakedown is each bit the epic psychedelic storage rock basic, once more from the Thee Hypnotics songbook, with its incendiary mixture of all that was nice concerning the likes of the MC5, the Stooges and The Cramps all thrown into one feverish and evangelical combine. And it doesn’t cease there because the dynamic storage rock infused basic by Eddie Floyd, Massive Chook, rattles but extra cages with its chugging guitar rhythms, driving bass line and wild horns earlier than the set involves a momentous shut with an incendiary model of the Revue’s 512.
Jim Jones All Stars are an unstoppable power who ship an explosive dwell present and this dwell album proves past any doubt that this expanded unit permits the band to broaden its sound and delve deeper into the legacy that comes from Memphis and New Orleans thereby giving the songs extra soul, groove and depth than ever earlier than, while dropping nothing from the depth and ferocity of their rock’n’roll roots. However make no mistake, Jim Jones All Stars are not any nostalgia journey. Get Down ~ Get With It’s a full-on aural assault which heralds a real revival of the age outdated rock’n’roll spirit, celebrating the wonderful legacy which fuels the music while redefining it within the twenty first century and supercharging it to a complete new and unprecedented degree.
Apart from the promise of a brand new album to stay up for in spring 2026, the nice information is that you could expertise all of this dwell and completely in your face on Jim Jones All Stars forthcoming UK tour which is heading to a city close to you. So get yourselves all the way down to one in every of these exhibits and get with it!
October
tenth – Brudenell Social Membership, Leeds
eleventh – CCA, Glasgow
twelfth – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
thirteenth – BBC 6 Reside Music Session – Marc Riley (Salford)
14th – The Cavern, Liverpool
fifteenth – The Discussion board, Tunbridge Wells
twenty third – Unusual Brew, Bristol
twenty fourth – The Prince Albert, Brighton
twenty fifth – The Lexington, London (Album Launch)
You should purchase tickets for the tour dates right here.
You’ll be able to pre-order the dwell album right here.
You could find Jim Jones All Stars on Fb, Instagram, Bandcamp and their web site.
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All phrases and photographs by Ian Corbridge. You could find extra of his writing at his writer profile right here.
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