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Kenny Jacobson

 
Kenny Jacobson

alt.country, americana, no depression...that type of music. Kind a like: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Indigo Girls, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, Clem Snide, Slaid Cleaves,

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Love You More

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Hallelujah

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What I Want, What I Need, And What I Get

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Licking My Wounds (I Don't Want You To Go)

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Good Conversation

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Kenny's new album is now available online at Kenny grew up in Southern California playing the high school garage circuit in various punk bands. He left home to attend college, where he formed "Picture This". Though similar to the college-rock of the early 90's (REM, Indigo Girls, Big Head Todd and the Monsters), Kenny couldn't be stictly held to that genre and often incorporated funk, rap, and grunge into the mostly acoustic line-up. In 1994, Picture This released their first and only album. After graduation, he returned to Southern California and formed a short lived acoustic band called "Silver". In 1999, feeling a little constrained by the folk-rock scene he'd been part of for practically a decade, he formed a hard-rock band called "The Others". His intended goal was for it to be a punk band, drawn heavily on upon the influence of Bob Mould, but having his early roots too deeply steep in hard-rock of the 70's, The Others sounded more like Rush and Led Zepplin, than like Husker Du or Sugar. Coupled with the fact they continually opened for Emo/Shoe Gaze bands, the music had a hard time finding an audience. Years before the formation of The Others, Kenny started discovering "roots" music. He became enthralled with Bob Dylan and rediscovered Neil Young. He went through World Music phases for 4 to 6 month periods: Salsa, Zydeco, Cuban Charanga, African Zoucous, Brazillian Axe. The organic nature of these musics, stirred something. With the turn of the millenium came two defining works of art: the movie "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou" and Ryan Adam's "Heartbreaker". In his quest for organic soul-stirring music, Kenny had somehow missed what was in his own backyard. Perhaps repulsed by commercial pop country, he had never given "real" country/western music a chance. But with these two works, he began next obsession. He found the works of Gillian Welch, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Drive-by Truckers, but he was pushed further back to Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, and then even further back to Hank Williams. After discovering Hank Williams, things made a lot more sense. It was a similar epiphone to when he dug his way past Led Zeppelin, through Willie Dixon, and finally to Robert Johnson. Of from Indigo Girls to Bob Dylan to Woodie Gruthie. He had finally discovered the third element in the holy trinity of roots music. If the Blues taught him that a song should have a groove, and if Folk taught him that a song should have a story, Country taught him that a songs should have a melody. A melody so beautiful that stripped of all instruments and even intelligible words, the humming of a tune can pierce the soul. At that point Kenny's songwriting took a new turn, in addition to moving the body through the groove (a la Led Zeppelin) and moving the mind through the story (a la Bob Dylan), Kenny would consciously strive to move the soul through the melody. In 2001 Kenny formed the "Slappy Hooper Orchestra" as a zydeco/bluegrass/salsa band. The band had a rotating lineup and after meeting up with Ammon Madsen, they started moving in a more alt.country direction. They changed the name to Johnny 99 in honor of the great Bruce Springsteen album "Nebraska". The line up changed periodically and finally settled with Joe Rassmussen on bass and Kevin Merill on drums. In 2004, Kenny entered the studio to record a number of songs that he been writing. Some were over 5 years old and others were very recent. Because the songs were decidedly more folk and country than his Johnny 99 bandmates were used to playing, he made it a solo project and hired studio musicians to play the instruments he could not. The result is an eclectic exploration of american roots music. The music is a collection of artistic impressions; that of a city boy walking through the red clay of Geogia or the late Spring snow-flurries of Nashville. From country waltz to honky-tonk, from bluegrass to blues horns, the album is not intended as an imitation of southen music, but rather one beach boy's homage to it.
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