Mary Jones Booking and Management

Ron Franklin

Availability

fall 2011 pkg/support/residencies

Artist Biography

Memphis-bred Ron Franklin (guitar w/ Jack Oblivian, Arthur Lee, Peter Case & DJ Bonebrake) with his  electro-psych trio Gasoline Silver.  Musicians Josh Misner (synthesizer/ tambourine), and Andy Hertel on drums and occasional Memphis imports.

Coming summer 2011 on Red River Records:  re-release of Blue Shadows Falling, originally released in 2 limited editions of 50 each - Crawdaddy's top 10 of the year

"electro-psych panoramas and biker-movie guitars."

Selected Press

Minneapolis' Gasoline Silver [draw] influences from '70s American punk and a bit of British blues rock. ...Pulling the bass sounds from keyboards instead of a guitar immediately brings to mind the soul sounds of Stax, but also draws on British '60s beat like the Small Faces.

-- Popmatters

The band's self-titled debut cultivates everything cool in American rock music, from '70s punk and psychedelic rock to folk and blues. The eleven-track album feels like a road trip across the U.S., filled with failed romances and jaded women, like the character drawn in "A Heart of Glitter and Eyes of Stone" ("She had it all / But not in our time / Another vision / Another mind"). Franklin's songwriting is poetic, vivid, and Dylan-esque.

-- 4 stars, Venuszine

photo by Steve Roberts

Tour Dates

No current tour dates.