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Many of you know JT through his relationship with Po’Girl and the Be Good Tanyas, both of whom he’s written songs for and toured with. Now he and a 3 piece version of his band, the Clouds, are touring here in their own right and no-one deserves the spotlight more. JT has been described as having the best white soul voice to come out of America in a generation and now he’s here to ‘absolutely explode your mind and spirit and then rebuild them with love and  gentle care.’    

“Achingly gorgeous. Slinky, vulnerable and reverent of the Memphis soul of yore.” Chicago Tribune

“Hard to know where to start with this, it’s just so enjoyable. ‘Caledonia’ is ten songs of something a little bit country, a little bit soul, a slight jazziness, a glug of Motown and it is all wrapped up with tenderness. ‘Caledonia’ undoubtedly flies the flag of all JT’s influences and quite shamelessly too, there are moments of nostalgia hidden away but it still gives a modern pop hint. You’ll just have to buy it. 9 out of 10” Americana UK

 “I was supposed to have this review of ‘Caledonia’ done weeks ago, but I’ve been too busy listening to/enjoying the album to possibly write anything about it. 9 out of 10” Indie Rock Reviews

 “It’s been said the ‘Rock N’ Roll Will Save Your Soul’, but who is there to save the soul of Rock and Roll? The answer to that question is Chicago based band JT & the Clouds” Reviewsic

“Chicago artists JT and The Clouds make a brand of folk and Americana that makes you happy.”  Redefine Magazine 

“Bittersweet tales of loss and longing; haunting melodies and sharp lyrics. How is it that a band as good as JT and The Clouds, with four brilliant albums, is hardly known in Britain?” JT and the Clouds will suit fans of The Band, ‘The Basement Tapes,’ Memphis Soul and Willie Nelson.” Word Magazine-UK 2010

“Get settled in so you can tell your friends that you knew about JT and the Clouds before the boys hit the big time. It’s pretty darn fine.” Time Out 

“Greenwich Village-style busker soul, caught between two generations of tragic Buckleys.” Chicago Reader

 “Jeremy Lindsay (aka JT Nero), who fronts JT & the Clouds, is a revered songwriter. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist penned ‘Scattered Leaves’ (covered beautifully by The Be Good Tanyas), ‘’Til It’s Gone’ (a Po’ Girl classic), and many other extraordinary songs. Jeremy’s sound has been dubbed ‘Sly Stone soul meets Gram Parsons heartbreak.’” Albuquerque Arts

“The songs on ‘demons/demons’ accentuate JT’s vocal work, highlighting his prowess in crafting beautiful, soul-wrenching melodies that move seamlessly from angelic to haunting, often in the same verse.” Toledo City Paper

JT and the Clouds come from Chicago; their music is Chicago music - rough edged, sad, hopeful, and shot through with soul.

The music is alive to the ever-shifting tides of modern indie music, but remains steeped in the city's fine traditions of soul, rhythm and blues. They resist the urge to pigeonhole themselves in a genre, or be easily pigeonholed. Most of the people that inspire them are similarly hard to pin down.

It's these ghosts of the past and future, awake in their music and words, that have pushed critics so far afield in reaching for name-checks to compare them to -- Sam Cooke, the Band, the Velvet Underground, Prince, Curtis Mayfield... and more recently, Bon Iver, M. Ward, Jeff Buckley ....

The Clouds, led by Jeremy "JT" Lindsay, have been putting out records and touring since 2004. Until recently, they got a bit more notoriety in far-off ports then their own backyard. That has changed in the last year. After putting out an EP, demons/demons, under the name JT NERO - a softer, (even) sadder, slightly weirder manifestation of the JT and Clouds sound - JT and Co enjoyed a wave of good press in their hometown. The Chicago Tribune tabbed JT as one of its "ten artists on the verge of breaking big in 2010," and Richard Milne at WXRT tabbed demons/demons as one of the top ten releases of 2008.

The nice words around town have ratcheted up expectations for the new record, Caledonia, released Spring 2010. After demons/demons' more fragile expression of love and loss, the Clouds were keen to get after it on this record -- Caledonia grooves, and rocks a bit harder through and through. JT's words may still ask you to sort through the same minefield of heartbreak and lonely hunger, but the Clouds have determined that you should at least be able to dance while you're doing it. Actually it’s also brilliant.