We caught Bones Owens by chance in March at The End. We were there to see the band before, and figured we’d stick around a little to check out the next guy. We could always bounce if he sucked. What we heard left us gobsmacked. Owens and his band whipped through a set of beautifully hewn, strikingly sad, alt-country twinged songs that gave us the same sort of shivers we’d probably have gotten if it were fourteen years ago and we were watching Ryan Adam’s try out some tunes from his new solo album. Since then we always managed to miss the scant handful of shows he played around Nashville, and Owen’s appeared to be pretty busy as a touring musician for Yelawolf. So imagine our surprise when this 5-song EP "Hurt No One" was quietly released a few days ago with a brief message and some thanks to its many contributors. We’re so glad that it wasn’t a fluke that we witnessed back in the spring. Do yourself a favor and throw the man five bones (c’mon folks, you knew it was coming) and download the EP from iTunes. -Terra James-Jura