Music of the Mountains: Selasee and the Fafa Family Part 1 of 2 with Wylie Jones

Send us Fan MailWylie Jones occasionally plays the keyboard for Selasee and the Fafa Family. For him, music is a necessary part of his life. He says that music has always been in his blood and that he primarily inherited it from his uncle, perhaps also from the universe. He initially sang in church and took piano lessons before he chose the guitar as his primary instrument, inspired by the playing of Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. While living in Virginia, he played in the reggae band Antero, fronting with Richmond reggae veteran Joshua Dowell-Achalam, known by his artist name “Mighty Joshua.”Antero has since parted ways, with Mighty Joshua focusing more on his solo work. After the band members parted, Jones picked up the keyboard again, playing for another group formed by his bandmate called Mighty Joshua and The Zion #5. Jones started experimenting with effects on the keyboard and ways to add more sound as a whole to perform solo shows as if there was a band around him. He moved out of Virginia to support his wife, who was about to start graduate school, and he learned how to use a loop pedal to avoid building another band from the ground up. Jones and his wife started a family, he fell in love with Colorado, and while the couple have since divorced, he still supports and helps to raise their kids.Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. Support the showThank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below.If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact:Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at [email protected] Hickman, multimedia producer, at [email protected] Lammers, podcast host, at [email protected] inquiries: [email protected] to our website for all of the latest news. Subscribe to The Mountain-Ear in print and online.Submit local events to promote them in the paper and on our website.Find us on Facebook @mtnear and Instagram @mtn.earListen and watch on YouTube today.Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout.Thank you for listening!