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	Jon Langford
		Langford fell in love with American country music when he was a kid, and he’s played his permutation of it ever since.
		Langford’s exploration of these “songs of murder, mob-law, and cruel, cruel punishment” led to the discovery of a secondary but no less passionately held theme.
		Jon was taken with the idea that, once upon a time, the popular culture could embrace without flinching subjects and stories about life and death.
	www.alverno.edu /presents/0405/pages/act12.html (472 words)

	JS Online: Artist better known for his music
		Jon Langford, who formed the British punk-pop group the Mekons in the '70s and now focuses more on country music and art themes in Chicago, will have an exhibit at Luckystar Gallery as part of Gallery Night and Day.
		Langford occasionally detours into quite familiar territory, if only to change the landscape: his portraits of Elvis Presley, many of which have a sharp pointillist derivation, represent not only an antidote to fl velvet but also some of the most intriguing images of The King aside from Alfred Wertheimer's 1950s photographs.
		In Langford's paintings, there is a constant mixture of the photorealistic and the iconic, the silent and the loud, the famous and the faceless.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/apr04/222169.asp (885 words)

	jon langford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		strong tower ministries is jon and tracey langford using their gifts for the body of christ.
		jon and tracey desire to use these offerings to help move people along in their relationship with god.
		"part of the reason that jon's music is so effective for ministry, is that jon has been through various difficulties which have driven him further 'into the holy of holies' to meet with his god...we heartily commend to you, mr.
	www.jonlangford.com (171 words)

	jon langford art
		Langford said this was part of what he was trying to communicate with them — about his shared experiences with this other culture and the music industry.
		At the exhibition's opening on Saturday evening, Langford treated the packed crowd to a 20-minute set in the backyard of the gallery, both he and the audience momentarily forgetting the low 40-degree temperature outside as his voice and guitar pierced the night air.
		Langford's work will continue to be on exhibit at Yard Dog through the end of December.
	drbombay.0catch.com /resume/sonic/langford_art.html (829 words)

	Jon Langford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jon is convinced this is the best way to keep his mind on higher things.
		Jon Langford sings and writes because he wants to share his heart with the listeners, a heart equally filled with questions and conviction, joys and sorrows, and an overflow of the Truth of God’s Word.
		Jon finds his hope in Jesus Christ and the love He showed to each of us when He laid down His life on the Cross.
	www.jonlangford.com /bio.asp (248 words)

	village voice > music > by Robert Christgau
		For those keeping count, Jon Langford revealed May 8 at Galapagos that he hadn't actually released four albums in 2002 and early 2003, as I had previously reported.
		Langford has been a drinker—he's cut down, he says, because kids and hangovers don't mix—but never a slacker.
		Impressive as all this extracurricular activity is, however, it clearly stems from Langford's music—unless you want to say that like his music it stems from his spirit, which just gets larger as the responsibilities mount and the years roll on.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0321/christgau.php (1175 words)

	La Luz de Jesus Presents Jon Langford
		A native of Wales, Jon Langford studied art at the University of Leeds.
		Langford has taken the raw, folksy, do-it yerself spirit of country and punk music and adapted it to his visual arts.
		His paintings reflect Langford's need to recognize the bits of American culture that he, as an outsider, admires and respects.
	www.laluzdejesus.com /shows/previousshows/2004/langford1.htm (103 words)

	Robert Christgau: Loser on a Roll: Jon Langford
		Langford emigrated to Chicago for love in 1991, following his girlfriend Helen Tsatsos, who'd returned to her hometown from France for graduate school.
		Langford has been a drinker--he's cut down, he says, because kids and hangovers don't mix--but never a slacker.
		Impressive as all this extracurricular activity is, however, it clearly stems from Langford's music--unless you want to say that like his music it stems from his spirit, which just gets larger as the responsibilities mount and the years roll on.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/rock/langford-03.php (1160 words)

	Jon Langford, an interview
		Jon Langford's musical journey has been an unconventional one - from art school punk rocker in late-Seventies Leeds to champion of country music in Chicago, where he lives today.
		Jon Langford: The secret of our success is our lack of success - every time we signed to a major label we felt like employees and we'd get dropped and fall apart only to regroup again months later in some pub and realise we were incapable of splitting up - too lazy by far.
		Jon Langford: He just sent me a tape with his vocal panned to one side and a drum machine synth track on the other so I had to put that whole crazy arrangement together with a bunch of serious musicians who thought I might have gone a bit mental...
	homepage.ntlworld.com /elizabeth.ercocklly/mek.htm (1685 words)

	Jon Langford exhibition
		Langford, a Welsh-born artist and musician who moved to Chicago in 1992, has campaigned against the corporate pimping of pop culture ever since he and fellow art students at the University of Leeds formed the British punk band the Mekons in 1977.
		Langford and his mates -- a collective that has suffered its share of woes at the hands of the music business -- were bent on having their way with their beloved hillbilly music even if they had to raise it from the dead.
		Langford embraced the dark, worldly spirit of 17th century Dutch paintings with Williams at a table landscaped with a skull, a book, a miniature Cadillac, a picture of wife Audrey, a beer bottle and a record contract.
	www.jonlangford.de /art_lang.htm (3916 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| News \| Jon Langford and Sally Timms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jon Langford and Sally Timms' new Songs of False Hope and High Values (Bloodshot) steps gingerly between politically charged folksiness -- Langford's precise but impassioned take on Eric Von Schmidt's protest classic "Joshua's Gone Barbados" -- and the stylized, intellectual wordsmithing and raw, flashless musicality of the duo's most important band, the Mekons.
		If the names Langford, Timms and the Mekons mean nothing to you, then you've been boycotting the RFT music section or perhaps you've just returned from 20 years in Kamchatka.
		Langford's originals (four co-written with Timms) join writerly smarts and proletarian vernacular in images of holocaust -- "Goodbye Dr. Strangelove, he knew he had to go" -- and souls "evolving discreetly," objects flying up magically into hands, uncontrollable dreams, horses jumping through hoops of fire.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/2000-08-02/soundchecks2.html (445 words)

	Music \| Jon Langford and His Sadies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jon Langford’s new album with the Sadies is just one in a long line of Langford side projects that the Mekons leader doesn’t treat like side projects.
		His other primary extra-Mekons musical endeavors — the Waco Brothers and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts — have all made it past their first album, and Mayors of the Moon, his first collaboration with the alterna-country group the Sadies, is good enough to warrant his continued interest.
		Langford brings his sharp sense of humor and his penchant for rock-and-roll bombast to the Sadies, a crack group of musicians who walk a line between the psychedelic country of Gram Parsons and a rich Sun Studios sound.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02671904.htm (179 words)

	Jon Langford, MP3 Music Download at eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Somewhat of a Renaissance man, Jon Langford is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of the influential punk band the Mekons, but has had his hands in many other projects as well as being a prolific and respected visual and comic artist.
		Langford put together the Mekons in Leeds, England, in 1976 and has had a steady output with that band since, as well as guesting on dozens of recordings from Dutch punk band the Ex to Austin, TX, legend Alejandro Escovedo.
		Langford founded his first side project to the Mekons in 1982 with the inception of the Three Johns, which lasted until the early '90s, when Langford relocated to Chicago.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10567/10567087.html (327 words)

	Jon Langford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The common denominator is, of course, Jon Langford, a one-man roots-music phenomenon who can be in three bands before breakfast and still have a few hours for painting before his radio show.
		Nearly every song is charged with nostalgia, as Langford, born in Wales, schooled in Leeds, a traveler all his life and currently living in Chicago, ponders the pull of home in a fractured world.
		Jon Langford appears on "Rising Son of Ranting Verse" By Seething Wells and Little Brother, a split 7" on Radical Wallpaper (Rad Wall 004) as per liner notes: "all music written, performed, mutilated-Jon Langford Produced and Engineered J.L. and KG Ken
	www.mekons.de /jon/jondisco.htm (1931 words)

	JIVEMagazine.com - Jon Langford in Atlanta: an Emory/Eyedrum Event - Langford's paintings on view at Eyedrum starting ...
		Jon Langford will be at Eyedrum on the 22nd of October at 8:30 p.m.
		Jon Langford’s appearance at Emory is funded in part by a grant from the Southern Arts Federation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts.
		Jon Langford’s appearance at Eyedrum is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
	www.jivemagazine.com /post.php?pid=739 (583 words)

	Along for the Ride
		Jon fronts the beloved punk band, Mekons, and the alternative (alt) country band, Waco Brothers.
		Originally from Wales, Jon saw the seminal punk band, the NYC-based Ramones, play in England in the late 70's and was inspired to start a band, like everyone else.
		Jon finds his punk rocker friends hiding in plain sight and still full of the old fury.
	www.npr.org /programs/theride/jlangford (394 words)

	JS Online:An artist at home with range
		Jon Langford is best known for heading up the Mekons, a truly legendary punk-rock band, for more than a quarter-century.
		Jon Langford's painting "Lofty on Charmer" is typical of his work, which can be seen at Luckystar Studio through the end of the month.
		Jon Langford, who formed a '70s British punk-rock group but now focuses more on country music and art themes, will debut a multimedia performance at Alverno College on Saturday.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/apr05/318399.asp (944 words)

	Jon Langford - All The Fame of Lofty Deed - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Yet Langford, lassoing two distinct backing bands and—if you believe the liner notes—a tune recorded off the radio by guitarist Jon Rice, unveils a swagger that’s gratifying as well as sexy, and the Mekons were as sexy as Friedrich Engels.
		In Langford’s case, you can’t miss what you never had, and from all the evidence never wanted; this is a guy, after all, whose most inspirational line is “Destroy your safe and happy thoughts before it gets too late”.
		Langford tells us we’ve been “Living a Lie”; that a world gone mad has forced him “Over The Cliff”; and, of course, that we’re living through “Hard Times.” Langford’s vigor and the ease with which the ace musicians adapt to country idioms offset his rather predictable lyrical tropes.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=2229 (702 words)

	Jon Langford: All the Fame of Lofty Deeds: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As a visual artist, Jon Langford, who founded the influential and still active punk group the Mekons, works in a decidedly folk art milieu.
		Through these and other songs Langford suggests that freedom and justice reign only in the margins of society, where artists can clearly view the corruption of the center.
		In this regard, Langford's outrage over the state of country music and the world cannot overcome his genuine excitement in absorbing his beloved influences, jotting down some great lyrics and some hummable melodies, corralling a herd of talented musicians, and making music that is intelligent, angry, and most surprisingly, fun.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/langford_jon/all-the-fame-of-lofty-deeds.shtml (590 words)

	Langford - Up to His Neck in It
		Jon Langford Is Up to His Neck in It On a cool cloudy March afternoon, Jon Langford shuffles to the makeshift stage behind the Yard Dog Folk Art gallery, a fatigued sanguine grin glowing beneath his vague beard, a slight paunch welling under his grey T-shirt.
		Langford left Wales and studied art at the University of Leeds, and began his involvement in the Leeds art-punk band the Mekons in 1977.
		Langford participated in the Mekons' group exhibit OOOH (Out Of Our Heads, also the title of the yet to be released Mekons record) which toured Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester in 2001.
	www.1in5.org /langford/langfordartspaper.html (1503 words)

	Amazon.com: Skull Orchard: Music: Jon Langford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Mayors of the Moon ~ Jon Langford & the Sadies
		Langford rolls his Welsh "r"s with a vengeance, and sings metaphorically about whales and sailors and deep sea divers.
		Everything Jon Langford had done up to this point was preparation for this brilliant album, my personal favorite from 1998.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000676T?v=glance (841 words)

	Bluegrass In The Park / Jon Langford and Buddy Miller bring their brands of 'country' music to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was in the early years of the Mekons, the punk band he co-founded in Leeds, England, in 1976, that Langford began warming up to hard-core country music, "from coming to the States and rubbing shoulders with Americans," he said.
		Langford -- a collaboration addict who plays and records with the Waco Brothers and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts and recently started his own label to release archival and new music from offshoot projects and friends -- just issued only his second solo CD, All the Fame of Lofty Deeds.
		Langford establishes cultural and historical context with such songs as "Nashville Radio" and "The Country Is Young." The latter, written from the perspective of someone who's lived in Chicago for the past 12 years, offers a critique of his adopted homeland and a large dollop of forgiveness.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/09/30/derk.DTL (1352 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Langford, Jon: Jon Langford is the real deal
		Today, as Langford's solo projects and ongoing side-projects like The Waco Brothers and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts confirm, punk and country are living together very happily indeed.
		Langford, meanwhile, is alive and well and living in Chicago, home of the premier country-punk label, Bloodshot Records.
		Of course, those who doubt Langford's country cred may also point to the apparent irony of using a genre laden with murder ballads to denounce violence.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/L/Langford_Jon/2003/01/23/746797.html (833 words)

	Along for the Ride
		Jon Langford first came to this country from his native Wales with his fiery punk rock band, the Mekons, in 1980.
		Jon has used his outsider status to dive deep into American culture and pull the best bits to the surface.
		Jon’s simultaneous careers as a punk rocker and an alt.country crooner are not contradictory, a do-it-yourself, stay hungry, stay-true-to-your-convictions spirit informs both occupations.
	www.npr.org /programs/theride/jlangford/001.html (282 words)

	Music \| Jon Langford
		For its first 10 seconds, Jon Langford’s second solo album sounds like.
		The title track is a rueful saga of a country star’s rise and fall (think Ziggy Stardust in a ten-gallon hat).
		Langford’s weather-beaten, sepia-toned cover painting of skeletal and blindfolded Nashville session men sums up his feelings about the moribund state of the genre’s more mainstream manifestations; "Nashville Radio (Fast Version)" is a jaunty poke at the sickening slickening of same.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/03988527.asp (270 words)

	Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR): Profile: Jon Langford discusses with his old punk rock fan friends the legend of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Musician Jon Langford was just a kid, fresh from Wales, when he was inspired by the burgeoning punk music scene to come to New York City in 1980.
		This is Jon's first trip back to his old haunts since the death of one of his idols, a tall cartoonish anti-rock star named Joey.
		JON LANGFORD (The Mekons): When George W. Bush became president and the Cold Warriors and...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:46112316&refid=ip_almanac_hf (241 words)

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