Jason Webley,来自西雅图,是有名的街头艺人,经常巡回世界各地表演。他的音乐结合了民谣、吉普赛曲调以及庞克。发行过六张专辑,在专辑中他演奏多样乐器,包括吉他、手风琴、钢琴和木琴,但在演出时,他仅携带吉他手、风琴以及装满硬币的伏特加酒瓶,所以搜寻到的表演影片中,最常看到的就是他一边演奏手风琴,一边唱歌,有时脚上还会来个类似踢踏舞的节奏,十分逗趣。
by Adam Greenberg
As something of a summary of his previous albums and works, Only Just Beginning is for the most part (and perhaps in whole) a song-by-song reversal of Jason Webley's debut album, Viaje. The album opens with a soft ode to the rebirth of spring (in answer to the closing work on his debut relating to the close of summer). "Music That Puts Everything Together" reverses the entropy of "Music That Tears Itself Apart," with music almost exactly in opposition. "Halloween" is answered by "May Day," with the attendant juxtapositions of life and death, spring and fall. "Rockets to God" are answered with mining journeys for the devil. Similarly to the titular opposition, the music varies. Nicely enough, as Webley has an affinity for the mix of the raucous and the subdued, the profane and divine. The alternation effect holds through a reversal of a full album. There are some nice grooves here (as in "Mine"), and the usual mix as well. The execution just keeps getting better and the compositions cleaner as Webley progresses through albums, and Only Just Beginning is quite arguably the best yet. Sleek where Viaje was rough, complex where previous works were simpler. More mature all around.