Press:

“Hang Jones (AKA Stephen Grillos) is a bay area singer-songwriter who has recorded an album based around an outlaw tale. I was hooked by the concept, but the results seem even better. The tale centers around the Outlaw William Bishop...”
Amber Waves of Twang

“ALBUM REVIEW: [Hang Jones'] new release The Ballad of Carlsbad County tells a dark tale of a New Mexico town rife with drunken lust, envy, jealousy, deceit and finally the murder of a young woman and the wrongful conviction of a murderer that nonetheless was innocent of this specific wicked deed.”
Baron Lane - TwangNation

“Hang Jones' album-length ballad about outlaw William Bishop, broken down into twelve chapters, is about as close as you'll get to a folk opera...”
Nate Seltenrich - East Bay Express

“Here’s something different. Maybe not completely different, as Monty Python’s guys said, but Hang Jones (it’s singer/songwriter Stephen Grillos) is an effort to make the western ballad popular without reaching out to the glitter crowd of Nashville and L.A...”
InBlaze - Indie Update

“Top 10 Albums of 2008”
Baron Lane - TwangNation