Duke of Arkansas

Hot on the heels of his much-lauded sophomore effort 'Not For the Faint of Heart!',Jason Morphew offers up 'The Duke of Arkansas'. A huge departure from his previous work,Duke features a big supporting cast:Ikey Owens of The Mars Volta plays keyboards on almost every track,current and former members of the Beachwood Sparks are on most of the songs --strings,loud guitars, synthesizers,and pedal steel parts (performed by famous LA studio musician Doug Livingston)abound.Recorded mostly by former Ratt bassist Matt Thorne at his home studio,the emphasis here is on rock and roll.The women who sang the theme song to the TV show The Jeffersons ("Movin'On Up")sing backup on two of the tracks.Morphew,a duke from Arkansas himself,has come from the heartland to mess up any concept of boundaries in music.Rather,in the end,it ’s all American rock.