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KC TURNER PRESENTSJACKIE GREENE & JASON CROSBY
**3PM MATINEE**
HopMonk Sebastopol - The Abbey
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ABOUT:
JACKIE GREENE
Americana and roots singer-songwriter Jackie Greene is a jack-of-all-trades, and an artist who can croon over soulful piano ballads as much as he can shred a bluesy guitar solo (like he did as the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes in 2013). A road warrior and musician's musician, Greene's new EP 'The Modern Lives - Vol 2' (out October 2018 on Blue Rose Music) finds him at a new chapter in his life: his first months of fatherhood, time off his relentless touring circuit, and a cross-country move from Brooklyn to his birthplace of Northern California.
This new collection of six original songs is a thematic extension of 'The Modern Lives - Vol 1' EP (released in 2017 on Blue Rose Music), imbued with a Brooklyn basement DIY feel and ethos. He is a student of American music, transfixed upon its progression through time, as well as how regional sounds fit in a contemporary context. Whereas 'Vol 1' saw Greene experiment with the Delta blues as a canvas for his examinations of modern society, 'Vol 2' sees Greene embrace the sounds of the bluegrass and folk tapes of his youth.
Lead single "Crazy Comes Easy" showcases Greene's dynamic, multi-instrumental range as he plays slide guitar, organ, bass, and percussion, the guitar licks an appreciative nod to his time in The Black Crowes. Meanwhile, "Good Old Bad Times" highlights Greene as the songwriter as he rattles off lines like "How can somebody find a future? / If they ain't got a foothold in the past?" while taking a critical eye to the idea of nostalgia. Piano ballad "Victim Of The Crime" was one of Jackie's oldest demos up until the feel of these sessions gave him the tools to finish a song that, in his words, was written for his wife before she was his wife. While the title possesses a kind of melodrama, the song itself is tender and heartfelt as he details love's trials and tribulations.
Greene partnered with Academy Award-nominated "king of indie animation" Bill Plympton for a series of music videos for 'The Modern Lives - Vol 1' that would eventually become an animated short film titled 'The Modern Lives'. The film is currently making the rounds at film festivals where it has already won the Jury Award at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, TX, and the Grand Remi Award / Best in Show at WorldFest in Houstin, TX. The short is also being exhibited at the 71st Festival de Cannes/Court Metrage, Melbourne International Animation Festival, and ASIFA-East Festival, amongst others.
JASON CROSBY:
After decades on the road as one of rock’s most in-demand sidemen touring with the likes of Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph and others, multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby took time for himself. The result was his 2017 solo album, Cryptologic, and a relationship with Nashville’s Blue Rose label. The album revealed the keyboard/violin/guitar player to be an honest, thoughtful lyricist and songwriter in his own right, singing and playing all the instruments on half of the tracks and bringing in Northern California stalwarts The Mother Hips for the rest of it. It was also inspired by the longtime New Yorker’s earlier move to the Bay Area of California, where he found a kindred musical community that included The Mother Hips and the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh and Bob Weir.
But for his new solo piano album, Gilder, Crosby wanted to pay tribute to all of the artists who’d hired him over the years — artists who’d been a part of his life experience.
“I had that as the template,” he explains. “I would first pick an artist friend that I’d played with, think about all of their songs and find one that was suited for solo piano. It’s my way of celebrating everyone that I’ve played with and admire.
“When I was on the road with Jackson Browne, multiple people in that band had said, at different times, that I should make a solo piano album,” he recalls. “And it was serendipitous in that Dave Schools (Widespread Panic) and Joe Poletto (Blue Rose) were also saying the same thing at the same time, and these people weren’t even talking to each other about it. So within the span of a few weeks, I was getting all these signals that I should be doing this.”
Recorded both at Dave Schools’ Sebastopol studio, Spacecamp, and Grammy-winning producer Dave Way’s Waystation in Los Angeles, Gilder’s 11 solo piano tracks find Crosby covering artists he’s worked with ranging from Mahavishnu Orchestra to Father John Misty, and from James Taylor to Jenny Lewis. It was the culmination of a longtime dream.
“I’ve always wanted to do a solo piano album, something that’s been on my mind for a long time,” he says. “Every time I’d finish a track, I’d send it to the artist friend that I was covering, and the happiness and approval in their response would fuel the fire for the next song.”
Jason has dedicated this album to his younger brother and fellow musician Christopher Crosby, who passed away in 2021.
“Christopher was my favorite person in the world. It’s hard existing without him, but I will always feel connected with him through the music we shared. One of our last collaborations was when he was writing songs about the public library he worked at, and so I decided to cover his song ‘Headed Down to the Library’ for the solo record.”
The album was a labor of love, with Dave Schools and others pitching in. "There were a few different friends that were in the studio that also happen to be producers that helped out.” he says. “I started recording this in L.A. and did all of "Side A" at Dave Way’s studio the Waystation in L.A. Val McCallum, my bandmate with Jackson, came by and helped with the arrangement for Jackson’s song Colors of the Sun. "Side B" was done at Space Camp with Dave Schools and Jason Reed guiding me through. It was a happy coincidence that the LA and Bay Area sessions were the same length so it worked as two sides for the vinyl.”
Together, the 11 songs shine as a cohesive collection, with Crosby’s understated, refined keyboard work bringing a new dimension and mood to these artists’ songs. With Gilder, Crosby has delivered an elegantly affirming celebration of life and relationships, both of those still here with us, and those we have lost.
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230 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol CA 95472, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472-4222, United States
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