Hey Everyone.  Really big news!!!  Dean Jones has just produced a CD of family music called  “Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti,”  to benefit the Haitian People’s Support Project.  There are tracks from Dog on Fleas and Dean Jones, and WOW, look at the list below!!  With a national release on August 10, the first release from Spare the Rock Records.  

Dan Zanes
Pete Seeger
Elizabeth Mitchell
They Might be Giants
Gustafer Yellowgold
Caspar Babypants
Frances England
Dog on Fleas
Lunch Money
Baby Gramps
Recess Monkey
The Deedle Deedle Dees
Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem
Bonga and the Vodou Drums of Haiti
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Jonathan Coulton
Uncle Rock
Grenadilla
Dean Jones
Emily Curtis
Randy Kaplan
Jerrice Baptiste

Almost all of the tracks are previously unreleased, most of them recorded especially for this release.  Studios, engineers, artists, replicators, distributors, and everyone else in the process have either drastically discounted or donated their services; full credits and thanks will come.  Bill Childs of Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child, started a new record company just to put the CD out.  

There is more information here:
http://sparetherock.com/wordpress/?p=41

Hey everybody. There's a brand new Dean Jones CD on the way called Rock Paper Scissors It's a genuine wild party featuring the notorious and raucous Felice Brothers, Uncle Rock, and some other friends. It's the opposite of Napper's Delight, Dean's mellow 1st solo CD. Accordions, guitars, trombone, bottles and cans, car horns, kitchen sinks and a whole lots of stomping and singing. You will learn next to nothing, but have a darn good time trying.

You will be able to buy Rock Paper Scissors digitally from CD Baby very soon, and the actual CD early in December. Stay tuned for more information.

Winter 2009-2010

Saturday, January 16th, 2pm at the Rosendale Theatre, Dean Jones and friends CD Release Party for "Rock Paper Scissors" Tickets: $20 for families (including a CD), $12 per person (including CD), or $6 per person (no CD).

Winter 2008-2009

There is a great review by Warren Truit about Dog On Fleas latest (and greatest?!?) album Beautiful World at About.com. Dontcha want to read it!

Fall 2008

Dog on Fleas releases Beautiful World

Dog on Fleas is almost 10 years old!!!

Their brand-spanking new CD, Beautiful World, is an adventurous album,
with it’s own beautiful world view, that will give you joy, hope, some new dance moves, and songs that will stick in your head for the next 10 years. Musical saws, piccolo, trombone, saxes, Udu drums, and Moog keyboards augment the drums, bass, guitar, and spirited vocals of the band.

Beautiful World is a change in directions in some ways, and also a continuation of the Fleas’ ever-expanding world. The title song and Birds of a Feather come from Dean and John’s old band, the For Sale by Owner Orchestra. That band was very theatrical and experimental, with all 10 members playing toys, instruments they didn’t know how to play, and non-instruments. For Sale by Owner members Melissa Wood and Otto Kentrol make guest appearances on Beautiful World. The Fleas also enlist Frances England to sing on the CD’s final song, Babies, a love song to all the babies of the world. Beautiful World is really, really full of love, in many forms. Lima Bean, sung by the one and only Lorette Velvette, is a love story about a Lima Bean and her friend Slug. I Love Your Accent features friends of the Fleas from all over the world. Water Planet is sung by aliens expressing their love for our watery planet. In fact, most of the songs are full of love, if you just dig in to find it.

We’d love to come to your town and play these songs for you, so drop us a word or two. And drop us an email to get yourself on our list.

Dog on Fleas

Dean Jones- vocals, guitar, keyboards, trombone,
udu (clay) drums, drum machine, rhumba box,
John P. Hughes- vocals, bass, guitar, toy guitar
Chris Cullo- drums and cymbals

Guest Fleas (in order of appearance)
Dean Sharp- drums: Beautiful World, Water Planet, Balloon Man, Unbirthday
Jayna Nelson- piccolo and flute: Beautiful World, Water Planet, Balloon Man
Shane Kirsch- tenor sax and flute: Beautiful World, Water Planet, Balloon Man
Otto Kentrol- baritone sax and flute: Beautiful World, Water Planet, Balloon Man, Unbirthday
Melissa Wood- vocals: Beautiful World
Shaleah Patterson- vocals: Star Tonight, Crawl to Your Mother
Ken McGloin- guitar: Star Tonight, Birds of a Feather
Pia Ruissi-Besates- vocals: Dance Step, Lima Bean, Babies
John Parker- upright bass: Lima Bean, Where Would You Fly, Babies,
Lorette Velvette- lead vocals: Lima Bean
Uncle Rock- vocals: Lima Bean
Ben Richter- musical saw: Where Would You Fly?
Amadou Diallo- bongo (homemade metalophone): Accents
Frances England- vocals: Babies

Thanks to all the beautifully accented people who lent their voices for I Love Your Accent: Vijai from India, 3 friends from the Philippines, Bridget from Ireland, Amadou from Senegal, Mei from China, Werner from Germany, Juan from Mexico, Neslie from Turkey, Jerrice from Haiti, Ruben from Columbia, Eta from Yugoslavia, nice lady from Ghana, Leo and Viggo from Sweden, and Felipe from Cuba (talking to Ruben). Oh, and Dean is from Canada.

Produced, recorded and mixed by Dean Jones
No Parking Studios in Rosendale, NY, June-September 2008
Ken McGloin recorded Beautiful World, Balloon Man, and Water Planet, with assistance from Dean Sharp. Lorette Velvette was recorded by Alex Greene. Frances England was recorded by John Funke.

All songs by Dean Jones, except Star Tonight and the Beach Song by John P. Hughes, and Do You Wanna Know My New Dance Step? by Dean Jones and John P. Hughes.