Feathered Mason is a longtime musician and award winning songwriter/producer born a couple decades too late to a French mother and Midwestern father deep in the heart of Illinois. While early influences such as Hendrix, Zeppelin and Black Sabbath shaped his early blues psychedelic rock sound on guitar, regular trips to France listening to his twin uncles sing harmony & strum guitar secured a place in his heart for folk music. Many a band and decades later, after also emerging himself in the Colorado bluegrass community on banjo then finding his own slide of the country blues hill fingerpick’n on resonator guitars the Feathered Mason has taken flight! Now calling East Tennessee home – a true homecoming for an American roots lover & artist .

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His latest album "Bow and Arrow Days" is premised on a formative memory snippet from circa 1991, which became the driving force of this eclectic home recording.

"I wanted to go way back there and make recording music a homemade art project again. I wanted to feel like I was off-roading in an older farm machine with raw minimal  essentials (smelling gas fumes:) rather than a spaceship or high luxury vehicle which "real" studios can feel like to me.
I wanted to return to the work table each time for this album with pencil, scissors, razors, glue, pins, rubberbands, wax paper and boombox with cassettes.
I was hoping to exercise those old ways and go it alone on this one for the sake of remembering how to just mess around with a few tools and see what can be done..." 

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