Vermont-based Long Gone John is back with a sweetly upbeat new jam,”Ain’t Gotta Think About You”. Joined by his music cohorts, Tallgrass Getdown, The songwriter is blessed with a warm and effortless vocal feel, delightfully pushing across the track to a classic New Orleans feeling tune. Riding high on the back of a jangly piano rhythm and touched with bouncing horn delight, Long Gone John musses to his confessional love lost jam, a fun and lighthearted ballad to grab your sweetheart and cut a rug to.
” Ain’t Gotta Think About You” Is one of the songs from the upcoming album that has roots going back to the early years of Tallgrass Getdown but was never fully fleshed out. As I wrote more original material, it just got sidelined as it never really felt like a finished product. When we went into the studio to record “Songs For Ophelia,” Dave, our piano player, asked about it a few times, so we decided to take a swing at it. Between sessions I sat down and rewrote the lyrics and tracked them live with the harmonies on vocal day. It really came to life when we brought the horns in and accented the trad jazz and ragtime feel on it at Jer Coons’ Studio in Jericho, Vermont.
