Jordan Richardson is having a particularly good time with his current band, Son of Stan. It's not where anyone expected him to be a couple years ago, when he was touring the world with Ben Harper. How and why he arrived where he is now is the subject of this week's cover story. On that cover, he's doing some silly things: Talking into a non-cellular telephone, for example. He and photographer Jennie Warren captured more silly things on the day of that shoot, including weightlifting and cereal eating and floating furniture. Here are some of the highlights.

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