Jaron and the Long Road to Love debut album Getting Dressed In the Dark available everywhere June 22nd.
Jaron and the Long Road to Love is really makin their rounds with their new single, “Pray for You.” The clever, ironic, and funny tune took me by surprise the first time I heard it. Take a look at the making of the video above.
Jaron And The Long Road To Love’s runaway hit “Pray For You” hit the Mediabase Top 20 this week, but the break-up anthem is just one perspective on love presented on the Georgia native’s debut solo album Getting Dressed In The Dark (in stores 6/22). With the words ‘The Long Road To Love’ following his name, many believe Jaron has a band with him, but it’s just Jaron and his quest for love. “It’s my journey,” he proclaims.
“It’s my way of letting listeners know that my songs are about my personal experiences of falling in and out of love. It’s an account of where I got it right and where I got it wrong. That’s what this album is all about.” Currently the song chronicling where Jaron got it wrong is making all the noise, but the singer-songwriter is quick to point out that the album has tracks about the highlights he’s experienced in relationships as well.
“I have a song on the album called ‘That’s Beautiful To Me’ and I receive hundreds of emails every week from fans telling me they’re going to walk down the aisle to this song,” continues Jaron. “This song represents the sweetest moments I have found in love. When you start dating someone, everything they do is cute. After a while some of the cute things become annoying. But if you stick around long enough, it all becomes Beautiful again. I chose to end the album on a positive note because I truly believe that the stings you get from love are worth the sweetness of the honey.”
Jaron is a singer-songwriter from Tucker, Georgia that got his start in the pop world as part of the duo Evan and Jaron and he’s currently making his transition into the country world. Fans can hear his new single and several other tracks as part of a sneak peek album preview here. For more information on Jaron you can visit his website , MySpace, Facebook or follow him on Twitter
Jaron of Jaron and the Long Road to Love has been in the studio putting the finishing touches on his upcoming album. Due to the success of his single, 'Pray for You' (which is sitting in the Top 30 on the country charts), the release of his debut album, 'Getting Dressed in the Dark,' has been moved up to June 22.
The project is being described by the singer-songwriter as a collection of songs chronicling the rise and fall of love. "I think when people hear the album, they will understand the 'band name' better," explains Jaron. "People are a bit confused by 'The Long Road to Love.' At first, they think it is my band name, but when I walk out on stage by myself, people quickly realize that it's not my band. I tell them it's my journey. It's my way of letting listeners know that my songs are about my personal experiences of falling in and out of love."
Jaron Lowenstein Says a Country Prayer
With a title like 'Pray for You,' the debut single from Jaron and the Long Road to Love seems unlikely to engender any controversy ... until the chorus kicks in, that is.
The song, which is quickly gaining traction on KLLL, starts off sweetly enough as a minister admonishes a parishioner to turn the other cheek and wish his ex well. Instead, the aggrieved party turns cheeky, praying that all kinds of misfortune befall his foe.
The tune was inspired by, in part, by a woman who did Jaron Lowenstein wrong. "After breaking up with an ex-girlfriend, I realized that her saying 'Things aren't working out' meant 'I'm cheating on you,'" he says. "So I sat down to get revenge the best way I know how: the three Ps: pen, paper and a piano."
The protagonist in 'Pray for You' doesn't let his ex off so easy. Instead, he prays for such relatively benign incidents as "a flowerpot falls from a windowsill" or "your birthday comes and no one calls" to the more malevolent "I pray your brakes go out running down a hill" or "your tire blows out at 110."
Despite the fact that it all meant in good fun, the song, which Jaron co-wrote with Joel Brentlinger, is a lightning rod at some stations.
"There are occasional calls about people hating the song, but they tend to be from people who are still angry at the chicken for crossing the road in the first place," says Jaron, who self-released the single.
Just like in the song, some members of the clergy are even weighing in. "One pastor wrote, 'The lyrics provide catharsis and teach the jilted party that after all the screaming, praying and cursing [at] the ex is over, we're left only with ourselves ... so we might as well dispose of our anger so that we can wake up to a brighter tomorrow'," Jaron reports.
If Jaron Lowenstein's name sounds familiar, that's because he was half of Evan & Jaron. The duo, which included his identical twin brother, scored three Top 40 hits starting in 2001, including 'Crazy for This Girl.' After stepping away from music for a few years, he realized he was ignoring his calling. "Back in March, when the country was so scared about the future, I picked up a guitar to make myself feel better and it worked. I realized then that I needed to share that feeling with others. It was my job to entertain people and I had stopped doing that." He relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville this summer "and humbly crashed on my buddy's couch ... I'm still there."
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