One way to upgrade your catalog of songs is simply to strip them down to just vocals and your first love. Howard Jones, singer and songwriter of so many 80s hits that sometimes also sound so 80s, launched a thoroughly original idea into his Solo – The Songs And The Stories tour that features just him and the instrument he first started on – the piano. That’s it. No band, no guitars, drums or the ever present synths in all those popular favorites. Granted it wasn’t an actual piano, a keyboard selected to piano which worked just fine as Jones … Continue reading Concert Review: Songs, Stories and Some Soul on the Howard Jones Solo Tour