About Jeff Moon

Jeff Moon is a vagabond, born in the Ortiz Mountains, learned to crawl over the lush hills of Marin County, California, skipped over the chili fields of New Mexico, and walked through the deserts of Arizona. It was in Arizona where he found his purpose in life while playing bass in a surf-jazz-rock band called Nation's Ensemble on the Hopi reservation. He eventually came back out of the desert wiser, stronger, and perhaps a bit eclectic.

Jeff spent a decade in California where he played upright bass for several well known Bay Area bands including rockabilly legends Jinx Jones and the Kingtones, country/honky-tonk/rockabilly greats Mitch Polzak and the Royal Deuces, and was a founding member of swing band Lost Dog Found.

In 2014 Jeff found himself living in Nashville Tennessee. There he found opportunities to play bass and tour with Jane Rose and the Deadend Boys, Woody Pines, and A Man Called Stu. He also played bass on Charlie Smyth's record The Way I Feel.

In 2018 he decided it was time to step from the side to the front to record his own album. He collaborated with producer Stu Arkoff of A Man Called Stu and Zombie Ghost Train. Together they recorded Jeff's debut album Bones in the Ground.

Jeff draws most of his inspiration country artists such as Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, and John Prine. He also cant help but pull just a little flavor in from his early days of playing punk and metal music.

About Bones in the Ground

Jeff had the good fortune to have many great musicians contribute to the recording.

Stu Arkoff, aside from producing and engineering the record also played drums, much of the lead guitar, and lap steel for the record.

Bay Area California musician Bryan Kehoe, the former lead guitarist of M.I.R.V. and leader of his own great band Kehoe International dropped in to play lead guitar on a couple of tracks.

Billy Contreras played fiddle on the record who's resume includes performing and recording with Lionel Hampton, George Jones, and Hank Thompson just to name a few.

Jane Rose of Jane Rose and the Deadend Boys contributed vocals. She has been recording, touring, and being a force to be reckoned with for nearly a decade with her band.

Mary Rodgers, former composer and musician for The Deadmans Carnival out of Milwaukee, is known for playing baritone sax for any Nashville based band that is worthy enough to have a baritone sax. She's multi-instrumentally-talented and played accordion on the title track for Bones in the Ground.