Sara Watkins new album produced by John Paul Jones is due for release on April 7 – See www.nickelcreek.com

Full report on JPJ’s recent US appearances 
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John Paul Jones is teaming up with Sonic Youth and a Japanese violinist Takehisa Kosugi for a soundtrack to a special dance piece. 
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The John Paul Jones produced album by Nickel Creek songwriter/fiddler Sarah Watkins is due for release on April 7th 2009. Sarah has just signed a record deal with Nonesuch Records. The self-titled debut album Sara Watkins, features a wide range of colleagues and old friends, including alt-country duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas; colleagues from the bluegrass world like Tim O’Brien, Punch Brothers’ Chris Eldridge, Ronnie McCoury, and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek band mates Chris …

It has been confirmed that John Paul Jones is to appear at the annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam held at Asheville Civic Centre Asheville, North Carolina. Warren Haynes is the guitarist and singer for Gov’t Mule and the Allman Brothers Band. Both of those bands are stated to appear over the two day event on December 12 and 13. John Paul Jones first collaborated with Haynes at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn; back in 2007, when the bassist jammed with Gov’t Mule on several Zeppelin numbers including No Quarter, …

A new track recorded by John Paul Jones and Rayna Gellert from band Uncle Earl features on a new CD made up of the soundtrack for the acclaimed Sacred Harp documentary Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp and a compilation of artists performing their arrangements of Sacred Harp songs. The soundtrack CD contains some of the finest recordings of traditional Sacred Harp singing, a beautifully haunting and powerful form of a cappella shape note singing. The second part, Help Me to Sing, features 19 tracks commissioned especially …

 
John Paul Jones gave firm indication that together with Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham, he is ready to partake in a Led Zeppelin tour without Robert Plant.
JPJ appeared at the Manson Guitar Weekend in Exeter and as well as performing took part in a question and answer session.
Talking about the possibility of a tour he said:
“As you probably know, Jimmy, Jason and I are actually rehearsing and we’ve had the odd singer come in and have a bash. As soon as we know — which we don’t — we will …

Plenty of national coverage for this story originating from an interview Jason gave to a Detroit radio station. Link at … PasteMagazine

John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were in attendance at the annual GQ Men of The Year Awards in London on September 2. They were on hand to receive Led Zeppelin’s Outstanding Achievement award presented to them by Dave Grohl.
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The recent Foo Fighters live shows at Wembley Stadium which included a guest appearance of Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones is to be released on DVD on August 23rd. The 18 track set comprises of material from their June 6th and 7th dates. Full track listing is …
‘The Pretender’
‘Times Like These’ 
‘No Way Back’ 
‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)’ 
‘Learn To Fly’ 
‘Long Road To Ruin’ 
‘Breakout’ 
‘Stacked Actors’ 
‘Skin And Bones’ 
‘Marigold’ 
‘My Hero’ 
‘Cold Day In The Sun’ 
‘Everlong’ 
‘Monkey Wrench’ 
‘All My Life’ 
‘Rock And Roll’ 
‘Ramble On’ 
‘Best Of You’