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John Kruth discusses his new book Hold On World with Pat Thomas at Book Soup

8-5-21 6–9PM PDT, Book Soup Online Event
Dear Friends,
I had the honor of being interviewed by John Kruth for his new book “Hold On World” about John Lennon “Plastic Ono Band” album. My Holy Brother Willie Aron suggested I get interviewed for the book since Willie knew it was a life changing album for me upon it’s release in 1970. Kruth and I spend an afternoon listening to the album on vinyl and had an epic hang. You can find me in the index of the book near Brian Epstein. Enjoy. Marvin Etzioni

SteemIt – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

2/20/2021 Now Playing: Thee Holy Brothers’ ‘My Name Is Sparkle’
Thee Holy Brothers are here! The tuneful twosome is re-releasing their 2020 premiere platter, My Name Is Sparkle, on March 28th. But first, for those not yet familiar with the act in question, a bit o’ background. Thee Holy Brothers is a Los Angeles, California-based power duo consisting of singer-songwriter Marvin Etzioni…

Il Popolo Del Blues – The State I’m In – Best of 2020

12/28/2020 The state I’m in – Best of 2020 by Michele Manzotti
Due musicisti si incontrano a Los Angeles e scoprono di avere una passione comune per gli Who, Magari, e non lo sappiamo anche per i Kinks e tanta altra musica nata in Inghilterra tra i Sessanta e i Settanta. Uno è il cantante a autore Buddy Holy (all’anagrafe Marvin Etzioni) l’altro è Johnny B. Holy (Willie Aron)…

Americana.UK – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

12/16/2020 by Jason McDonald
Thee Holy Brothers are comprised of two friends: Marvin Etzioni and singer/multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron who have a formidable musical history outside of this band. They met in a record shop in Los Angeles as teenagers and followed their own musical paths (with Etzioni being part of Lone Justice and Aron being a founder of the band…

Il Popolo Del Blues – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

12/5/2020 by Michele Manzotti in Dischi, Recensioni
Due musicisti si incontrano a Los Angeles e scoprono di avere una passione comune per gli Who, Magari, e non lo sappiamo anche per i Kinks e tanta altra musica nata in Inghilterra tra i Sessanta e i Settanta. Uno è il cantante a autore Buddy Holy (all’anagrafe Marvin Etzioni) l’altro è Johnny B. Holy (Willie Aron)…

Terrascope Rumbles – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

12/4/2020 Terrascope for December
I don’t know a thing about this lot so please excuse my ignorance. They consist of Willie Aron and Marvin Etzioni, the record was produced at hot pie studio in Pasadena and does feature one musician that I know that’s Freebo the bass supremo for Maria Muldaur’s road band…

Three Chords & The Truth – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

12/3/2020 Album Review: Thee Holy Brothers – My Name is Sparkle
The year’s end may soon be approaching, but there is still time for an album to spring a surprise. While MY NAME IS SPARKLE is unlikely to rattle the cage of the year’s big hitters, it is capable of rousing interest and far from falls by the wayside. You could go as far and say that the album is a compelling piece…

RootsTime.Be – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

12/1/2020 By Dani Heyvaert
Achter deze bepaald niet bescheiden groepsnaam gaan twee bijzondere heren schuil: Marvin Etzioni, ooit nog mede-oprichter van de geweldige Lone Justice gaat hier door het leven als “Buddy Holy” en zijn kompaan Willie Aron, bekend van zijn werkzaamheden met onder anderen Victoria Williams en Syd Straw, heet hier “Johnny Be Holy” en…

Written In Music – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/27/2020 By Cis van Looy
Achter Thee Holy Brothers schuilt het muzikale verbond van singer-songwriter Marvin Etzioni, met een voorgeschiedenis bij Lone Justice en de zingende multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron. Getalenteerde muzikanten die hun sporen als producer en op studiosessies ruimschoots verdiend hebben bij onder andere Peter Case…

Gaesteliste.de – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/26/2020 By Ullrich Maurer
Dass ein Projekt, das sich den Namen “Thee Holy Brothers” gab, es nicht so ganz ernst nimmt, machen Marvin “Budd Holy” Etzioni (Gründungsmitglied von Lone Justice) und Willie “Johnny B-Holy” auf diesem interessanten Debüt-Album in Form einer mit Augenzwinkern inszenierten Songsammlung im Medicine-Show-Fake-Gospel-Setting…

At The Barrier – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/25/2020 By John Barlass
Thee Holy Brothers are a Los Angeles-based duo, comprising singer-songwriter Marvin Etzioni and singer/multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron. Although My Name Is Sparkle is the duo’s debut album, the guys have been together for many years, having first met when they worked together at Aron’s Records in LA, where they bonded over a mutual devotion to The Who’s Live at Leeds album…

FATEA – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/24/2020 Thee Holy Brothers. My Name Is Sparkle
Not to be confused with the 80s African Gospel outfit The Holy Brothers, this is a collaboration between former Lone Justice founder and bassist Marvin Etzioni and long-time friend and veteran session guitarist and producer Willie Aron. Going by the names Buddy Holy and Johnny B Holy, their debut is a two act play concept album about the androgynous Sparkle…

Heaven Magazine – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/23/2020 Albums van week 48
Onder de naam Thee Holy Brothers komen we twee Amerikaanse indiefolkartiesten tegen van wie we al een tijd niets hadden gehoord: Marvin Etzioni en Willie Aron. Etzioni kennen we van Lone Justice, als producer, en solo als Marvin The Mandolin Man. Aron maakte midden jaren tachtig drie fraaie indiefolkalbums met The Balancing Act. Als Thee Holy Brothers komen ze…

Alt Country NL – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/19/2020 Thee Holy Brothers – My Name Is Sparkle
Een androgyne figuur op zoek naar God, daarover gaat de titelsong van My Name Is Sparkle (Regional Records) van Thee Holy Brothers. Dat zijn Marvin Etzioni en Willie Aron. Ze zingen op het nummer als Simon & Garfunkel. Die Sparkle reist naar Jeruzalem, waar hij op zoek naar spirituele zaken en religie echter Elvis ontdekt (Elvis In Jerusalem)…

Keys & Chords – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/16/2020 Thee Holy Brothers – My Name Is Sparkle
Eigenzinnige plezante popsongs van een niet zo heilig duo. Singer-songwriter Marvin Etzioni (aka Budy Holy) en singer/Multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron (aka Johny B. Holy) verzonnen een figuur in queeste, Sparkle. Op zoek naar God en zingeving, met zelfmoord in het achterhoofd. Het lijkt wel een drama (niets is minder waar) verpakt in twaalf Beatles-esque/ George Harrison songs…

Bluestown Music- “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/16/2020 Thee Holy Brothers – My Name Is Sparkle
Thee Holy Brothers, singer-songwriter Marvin Etzioni (aka “Buddy Holy”) and singer/multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron (aka “Johnny B. Holy”) have crafted a deeply compelling debut album. American Songwriter’s senior editor Paul Zollo described the album’s title track as “a miracle of a song”, before going on to enthuse, “This is serious songwriting and record-making”…

The Spirit Of Progressive Rock- “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

10/30/2020 Roots In November
Marvin Etzioni (aka “Buddy Holy”) and singer/multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron (aka “Johnny B.Holy”) have crafted a deeply compelling debut album. Marvin elaborates…“My Name Is Sparkle is about an androgynous character named Sparkle who is “looking for God.” Sparkle travels to Jerusalem, the spiritual capital of the world, only to find Elvis. Sparkle contemplates”…

RootsVille – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

10/12/2020 Album Review
“My Name Is Sparkle” is een ambitieus experiment waarin singer-songwriter Marvin Etzioni en zanger en multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron als “Thee Holy Brothers” hun debuut komen te maken. “My Name Is Sparkle” gaat over een androgyn personage genaamd Sparkle die op zoek is naar God. Het album kan je aanzien als een toneelstuk in twee bedrijven en verder het digitale…

Paris Move – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

10/3/2020 Album Review by Patrick Dallongeville
Si les douze titres qui composent cet album forment une sorte de continuité narrative, sa genèse est déjà une longue histoire en soi. La complicité qu’entretiennent depuis plus de quarante ans le multi-instrumentiste Willie Aron et l’auteur-compositeur Marvin Etzioni date en effet des années de lycée de ce dernier, quand Willie tenait la boutique de disques située…

Northern Sky – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

10/1/2020 Album Review | Regional Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson
Marvin Etzioni and Willie Aron present an ambitious song cycle which sees Elvis in Jerusalem as the androgynous ‘Sparkle’ searches for God. You instinctively know this is going to be interesting from the start. Having between them previously worked with such acts as Counting Crows, Lone Justice, Rickie Lee Jones and The Balancing Act, the two musicians…

BluesNRoots Corner – “My Name is Sparkle” Album Review

11/27/2020 Thee Holy Brothers – My Name Is Sparkle
Thee Holy Brothers, singer-songwriter Marvin Etzion (aka “Buddy Holy”) and singer/multi-instrumentalist Willie Aron (aka “Johnny B. Holy”) have crafted a deeply compelling debut album. American Songwriter’s senior editor Songwriter Paul Zollo described the album’s title track Paul Zollo as “a miracle of a song”, before going on to enthuse…

Primer disco de Thee Holy Brothers, el grupo de Marvin Etzioni

9/22/2020 Ruta 66 liempes de Rock’N’Roll
Thee Holy Brothers, el cantautor Marvin Etzioni (alias «Buddy Holy») y el cantante y multiinstrumentista Willie Aron (alias «Johnny B. Holy») publican su disco de debut, My Name Is Sparkle. El periodista de American Songwriter, Paul Zollo, el adelanto del disco…

Marvin Joins Nicole Sandler’s Periscope Show

1-18-21 Nicole Sandler Show
It’s MLK Day and Music’s Returning to the White House. A special Monday Music Show with Lili Haydn and Marvin Etzioni.

John V’s Eclectic Avenue

Etzoni’s “What’s The Mood” is Exceptional
Rock and roll music can accomplish many things. At its best, it can thrill us, move us, teach us, uplift us, and allow us to be carried away by its rhythms. When an artist can accomplish all of those things on one record, it’s a very special occurrence. Marvin Etzoni, a founding member of Lone Justice, does just that on his latest solo release, What’s The Mood Of The Country Now?…

“God Bless The Homeless” is #4 on the Radio Indie Alliance chart this week!

Thank you Radio Indie Alliance & Marc Platt for your help in spreading the good word about “God Bless The Homeless” (#4 on the Radio Indie Alliance chart this week!) from the new album “What’s The Mood Of The Country Now?”…. available everywhere you download or stream…

The Alternate Root: Top Albums of 2020 So Far

The Alternate Root Reviews “What’s the Mood of the Country Now?”
“Marvin Etzioni (from the album What’s the Mood in the Country Now? available on Regional Records). Basing the theme of his recent release on faith in the future, Marvin Etzioni presents What’s the Mood in the Country Now? The album foregoes standing in a genre line, taking its musical cue from country as a territorial landmass, not a style choice.”…

Calgary Herald

Sunshine, harmony, big voices and strings close out the Calgary Folk Music Festival on Sunday
“Hearing Marvin Etzioni of L.A.’s Thee Holy Brothers sing the gorgeous hymn-like You Are the Light, which he wrote back in the 1980s for his pioneering country-rock outfit Lone Justice, was one of the more rewarding treats of the festival.”…

American Songwriter

“My Name is Sparkle” Album Review
“An absolute joy from start to finish. A beautifully conceived, executed and lovingly crafted chain of songs from Peter Case, a guy who has been crafting great songs for decades now, from early classics like “A Million Miles Away” (with his band The Plimsouls) through much solo greatness such as “Put Down The Gun,” “Beyond The Blues” and so many others.”…

American Songwriter

Marvin Etzioni Shares A New Song for Now, “Quarantine Blues”
The brilliant songwriter-singer brings us a hopeful new lockdown blues. Marvin Etzioni dreams songs. And not just once in a rare while, as some songwriters do; he dreams songs all the time! To the extent he has trained himself to wake up so as to capture them. “Which is not easy to do,” he said. “You don’t want to wake up. But if I don’t, it is gone.”…

Western Publicity Press Release

Founding member of Lone Justice Marvin Etzioni launches Regional Records with new solo album, Thee Holy Brothers, Grey DeLisle and more in 2020-2021
Marvin Etzioni is launching his first record label, Regional Records, with a new solo album, “What’s The Mood in the Country Now?” on October 23rd. When asked about the album, Etzioni said, “This is not an Americana record. This is an American record. (Continue Reading)