EXCLUSIVE: The Bones of J.R. Jones Premieres the Stunning Video for New Single 'Shameless' Featuring Anora Cinematographer Drew Daniels

Featuring Drew Daniels as director of photography - the cinematographer for this year's Oscar Best Picture Anora - the stunning new video from The Bones of J.R. Jones (a.k.a. Jonathon Linaberry) depicts a tale of double-crossed lovers and the dark roads that a lifetime of regrets can lead you down.

Taken from his forthcoming album, Radio Waves, 'Shameless' finds Jonathon Linaberry at his most elegiac and effortlessly majestic. Falling somewhere between the widescreen Americana of Roy Orbison and the spare, clean-limbed moody alt-rock of The National, the song sounds like the soundtrack to a late night drive through a neon light desert town.

"Oh these streets have ruined me," he sings over a pulsing after-hours disco beat as the delicately picked guitars open up and swirl dreamily around him, plunging the listener into the deep well of regrets that torments him. "These childhood roads that haunt my sleep."

"'Shameless' is taking the long way home to retread your past," Linaberry says about the songs. "The inevitable inner conflict and perhaps guilt that rise up from past decisions, that were maybe made in haste and in passion. I think we all struggle with the 'what could have been' question. What arrogant fool can’t look back and wonder? I am just trying to recognize that in this song."

Produced by GRAMMY-nominated producer Robbie Lackritz, Radio Waves marks the first time Jonathon Linaberry has worked with an outside producer. For this album, he'll tell you that he was getting burnt out on the constant barrage of new music in today's streaming era and missed what it felt like to tune into the radio and discover his next favorite song, organically. He linked up with Lackritz to tap into this magic, using a nostalgic '80s and '90s soundscape as he wrote about his own coming-of-age story. At its core, it's an album about understanding the past experiences that make us who we are so we can better face the future.

“These songs live in the night - the endless kind, where you get in your car just to drive and listen to music, to feel like you’re going somewhere even if you’re not,” Linaberry says. “It’s the sound of a kitchen heavy with the leftover heat of an August day and a table crowded with drinks, of arguments and first loves and first heartbreaks, of not living up to your potential, of breaking promises, of being human.”

The song is brought even more to life by the beautifully cinematic video that accompanies it.

“I have always been drawn to an unsatisfying ambiguous ending," Linaberry says about the video. "Endings that are never explained, nor make sense in the straight line of a narrative. I think because much of life feels this way. We never get to make sense of so many things. Human nature isn't logical … it just doesn't work that way. It's chaos and we do our best to control it. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we fail. It's this recognition that makes the noir genre so appealing and that's what we tried to create here in three short minutes.”

Watch the video for 'Shameless' below

Born and raised in central New York, Linaberry got his start playing in hardcore and punk bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax, who documented rural American blues, folk, and gospel musicians throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Inspired by the unvarnished honesty of those vintage performances, Linaberry launched The Bones of J.R. Jones in 2012 and, operating as a fully independent artist, began releasing a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs that would land his songs in a slew of films and television shows, including True Detective, Suits, Daredevil, Longmire, and Graceland and an Amazon commercial helmed by Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi.

'Shameless' by The Bones of J.R. Jones is out now. The album Radio Waves follows on 20 June.