The Bones Of J.R. Jones is the alter ego of one-man band Jonathon Linaberry, drilling down into old-time acoustic blues.

s is often the way, I was drawn to the name of the artist here as much as to the sound of the music, which is pretty much what I expected from The Bones of J.R. Jones.

I also expected a band. But turns out that this lean, spectral blend of vintage blues, folk, rock and Appalachian sounds is a one-man band.

It’s the creation of Jonathon Linaberry, a solitary singer, songwriter and guitarist who looks like a frontiersman from the 19th century and whose only accompaniment for his blues guitar is his own foot stomping the floorboards.

This song, establishing his raw, stripped-back style, appeared on his debut recording, The Wildness EP, released at the end of 2012 and subsequently appeared in the TV show True Detective.

Born in central New York state, Linaberry learned piano and trombone as a child before taking up guitar when his musical interests turned to acoustic blues, gospel and roots music.

After leaving school he moved to Brooklyn to study art and joined a punk band called Trouble Loves Me, who released an EP, Eyes Closed, Fingers Crossed, in 2002.

Before long he began using the DIY ethos of punk to inject the same no-frills energy into his passion for roots music steeped in tradition.

After several years in an acoustic group, The Feverfew, who released the 2004 album Apparitions, he struck out on his own in 2012 under the banner The Bones of J.R. Jones.

It would be another decade before he released The Wildness, followed by an album of acoustic blues with the folksy title Dark Was The Yearling before dialling up the guitars on his next two albums Ones To Keep Close, and Slow Lightning.